“Todd”: A Wraith commander once held prisoner by the Genii, who proved himself to be a cunning
strategist and sometimes ally to Atlantis.
After John Sheppard helped him escape captivity Todd became one of the most influential Wraith
commanders in the Pegasus Galaxy, using his tenuous alliance with Atlantis to his own
advantage.
The Wraith whom John Sheppard would eventually nickname “Todd” may be hundreds, or even
thousands of years old.
For many years he was held in captivity by the Genii Commander Acastus Kolya, who used
the Wraith’s need to feed as a mode of torture for his other prisoners.
After Colonel Sheppard was taken by the Genii he found himself in a prison cell next to
the Wraith, and the two formed a sort of bond through their shared experience and their
cooperation in escaping.
When he returned to his Wraith cell Todd began slowly reasserting his influence, looking
for ways to forward their interests against their adversaries – including other Wraith
hives.
One year after their meeting the Wraith made contact with Sheppard, allowing himself to
be taken into custody by Atlantis.
Todd revealed himself to be a brilliant scientist, and worked alongside Rodney McKay in an attempt
to rewrite the Replicators’ base code and deactivate the command that was prompting
them to attack the Wraith across the galaxy.
They ultimately failed.
But when McKay came up with another plan to stop the Replicators, Todd negotiated a temporary
alliance to bring several hive ships into the fight against the common enemy of the
Wraith and the humans.
Endlessly cunning, Todd stole a still undetermined amount of intelligence data during his time
in Atlantis.
In the final battle against the Replicators he stole multiple Zero Point Modules from
the enemy homeworld of Asuras, to be used to power his secret cloning operation to produce
more Wraith soldiers.
Todd planned to create an army of Wraith to conquer the other factions, but he was betrayed
and his facility taken by a rival queen.
Todd was not the only rogue actor looking to sow chaos amongst the Wraith factions.
The hybrid “Michael” utilized a drug, developed on the planet Hoff, to randomly
taint their human food supply throughout the galaxy – sowing the seeds of a civil war.
This prompted Todd to seek help from Atlantis to try and find a cure, and the team provided
him with a limited amount of research on the Hoffan drug in exchange for his help.
Always looking for an edge against the other Wraith factions, Todd later manipulated Teyla
Emmagan to help him eliminate a rival queen and expand his own base of power.
Soon after, he and his men submitted to an experimental drug trial on board the Earth
ship Daedalus, hoping to make use of a retroviral therapy (developed by Carson Beckett and Jennifer
Keller) to remove their need to feed on humans.
This would have given them an advantage against the other Wraith – but in the end the retrovirus
didn’t work.
It had catastrophic side-effects for Todd and his men, briefly leaving him near death.
With his own natural healing ability compromised, Todd allowed himself to be fed upon by an
iratus bug queen ... an ancient ritual of last resort to restore his health.
The gambit worked.
And Todd continued to be a tentative ally of Atlantis, capable of helping them when
they were most in need – but always out for his own interests.
He delivered intelligence that helped to stop an attack on Earth by one of his former subordinates.
Todd was last seen in custody in Atlantis when the city traveled to the Milky Way Galaxy.
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