Battle of the Wraith Homeworld

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Battle of the Wraith Homeworld
Conflict	Tau'ri-Wraith war
Date	2004
Place	Wraith homeworld Hive ship (Rising)
Outcome	Pyrrhic Atlantis Expedition victory The captured Atlantis Expedition and Athosians are successfully rescued The Wraith Keeper is killed thus waking up the remaining Wraith Colonel Marshall Sumner is Killed in Action Beginning of the Wraith civil war
Combatants
Tau'ri Atlantis Expedition Athosians (late)
Wraith Domain
Commanders
Colonel Marshall Sumner† Major John Sheppard Teyla Emmagan
Wraith Keeper†
Strength
1 Puddle Jumper Jumper 1 Several Atlantis Expedition members Lt. Aiden Ford Sgt. Stackhouse Sgt. Bates Smitty Parker Billick Marine Marine Marine Several Athosians Halling Toran† Athosian
12+ Wraith Darts Jimmy† Several Wraith warriors
Casualties
Colonel Marshall Sumner Toran
Wraith Keeper Jimmy Several Wraith warriors Several Wraith Darts

The Battle of the Wraith Homeworld was an event that took place in 2004 during the Tau'ri-Wraith war.

Prelude

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Battle

After figuring out the Stargate address of the Wraith homeworld and finding the Puddle Jumper Bay, Major John Sheppard leads a rescue team to find Colonel Marshall Sumner, the other Atlantis personnel and the captured Athosians. Arriving in orbit through the Stargate located there, Sheppard manages to locate the Hive ship on the surface and lands getting a Life signs detector from the Jumper to use to find the prisoners. Leaving everyone else behind and ordering them to set up C-4 around the hive, he and Lt. Aiden Ford enter it to rescue their people. Finding the captured people, Sheppard sets up C-4 to blow the door when the rest of the C-4 is blown and orders Ford to fall back as he goes to find Sumner who is being interrogated by the Wraith Keeper. He finds Sumner being drained of his lifeforce as an interrogation technique and repeatedly tries to kill the Keeper, but due to her feeding, she manages to heal herself each time. Seeing Sumner severely drained of life and near death, Sheppard kills him in a mercy killing but is caught by other Wraith soon thereafter. The Keeper interrogates him, but before she can feed on him, Ford returns and kills the two Wraith warriors guarding him, freeing Sheppard. Sheppard orders the C-4 detonated, freeing the prisoners and killing all of the other awake Wraith around the hive, and then stabs the end of a Wraith spear gun through the Keeper's chest, mortally wounding her.

Before she died, she warns Sheppard that his actions in killing her will cause all of the Wraith in existence to wake up which they start to do as Sheppard and Ford watch. Fleeing back to the Jumper, they come under attack by Wraith Darts, but Sheppard manages to drive one off before it can cull them and they make it to the Jumper only to find the Stargate guarded by a bunch of Darts. Sheppard decloaks and leads the Darts away from the Stargate but is unable to recloak due to damage. He manages to take out a couple of Darts as they dial the Gate and send the IDC, and the rest follow him through the Stargate to Atlantis but are destroyed by Atlantis' Stargate shield.

Aftermath

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Appearances

• Stargate Atlantis
  • Season 1
    • "Rising"
    • "Letters from Pegasus" (Mentioned)
    • "The Siege, Part 2" (Mentioned)
  • Season 2
    • "The Siege, Part 3" (Mentioned)
  • Season 5
    • "Inquisition" (Mentioned)