The Skirmish of the Wraith cloning facility was an event that took place in 2008 during the Tau'ri-Wraith war.
Prelude[]
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Battle[]
Todd steals three Zero Point Module's during the Battle of Asuras and decides to use them to clone himself a new army of Wraith at the Wraith cloning facility in order to wipe out the other Wraith and create an army completely loyal to him. He is betrayed to another Hive ship by one of his men and his ship is attacked, his crew is killed and he is taken prisoner. Before he's taken prisoner he activates his subspace tracking device before its cut out of him, leading Sheppard and his team to his damaged and abandoned Hive ship which they take for their own. After learning of the cloning facility, Teyla Emmagan flies the Hive ship there to check it out as while they don't know what it is, they learn that it was crucial to the Wraiths defeat of the Ancients. They arrive in orbit of one of the planets and Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, Dr. Rodney McKay and Ronon Dex take a Puddle Jumper down to the facility while Teyla, Major Evan Lorne and his team remain behind on the Hive ship. Once there they find Wraith warriors being cloned and many cloning pods as well as a Queen. Not understanding what's going on, they rescue Todd who explains it to them and how the facility was instrumental in their defeat of the Ancients: they defeated the Ancients through sheer numbers which were formed through this cloning facility. They couldn't use it in their war with the Asurans as it required ZPMs to work, but he'd gotten those during the last battle. The team and Todd get ambushed by the Wraith on their way out and while Todd does escape, the team is captured. Todd takes a Dart and makes his way to the Hive ship and tries to convince everyone else to leave, but Teyla refuses saying she's got another idea of how to save their friends. In the facility the Queen interrogates Sheppard and prepares to feed on him when Teyla takes control of her and forces her to have the other Wraith send them back to a cell. While Teyla mentally fights the Queen, she forces her to go and release the rest of the team, but the Queen goes after her baby. At Teyla's urging, Sheppard kills the Queen saving Teyla and her baby. In orbit of the moon the Queen's Hive ship locates Atlantis' and attacks and Todd tries to hold them off as long as possible to allow Sheppard, McKay and Ronon time to get back to the ship. The three manage to fight their way out having no time to disconnect the ZPMs as the cloning process has been started and make their way back to the hive ship in their Puddle Jumper.[3]
Aftermath[]
Needing to destroy the facility, Sheppard has Teyla set the hive ship on a collision course with the facility while the team and Lorne's team escape in the Puddle Jumper and Todd escapes in a Wraith Dart. They watch as the Hive ship crashes into the facility, destroying it, and then escape through the planet's Stargate back to Atlantis.[3]