A.N. Hello to my fellow readers. Those who don't know me I am big fan of Stargate and Avatar:The last airbender. Those who know me know what to expect :D Some of you may think you have already read this somewhere. Well, you will be right :D. I once again come to you with new idea. We know that reapers are big trouble for other races in mass effect universe. Lets have some fun with that and add more spice. How about wraith?! A hive or two will surely make things interesting to locals... and to reapers.

Also here comes sacred line that almost all fanfiction have :D. I don't own neither Mass effect nor Stargate Atlantis. Let the mayhem begin!

You should always be wary of newcomers! The council races learned that hard way several times, but always forgot about it after the danger passed. They will learn it again!

The civil war hit wraith pretty bad and things were looking bad for them, until one queen got her hands on couple ZPM modules that could enhance her hive ship power so that they could reach nearby Milky way galaxy within weeks instead of months or years and so preparation for their departure to new pastures had began. Three queens decided to join in alliance to reach those new feeding ground, but at same time when preparation took place, another plan was also in motion. One of queens, Beatrix, decided to take page out of Alteran history book. She planned to rebuild wraith population in another galaxy where there was no one so that they could make everything according to her vision. To do so she needed for main queen to trust her enough to give her ZPM, to do that she cooked plan how to persuade and get ZPM.

The Tau'ri, humans as they called themselves, were foreigners from other galaxy and they were effective to do so much damage even when they were so far from their home. What would they do if they were in their own galaxy and didn't need to travel for weeks just to get to Pegasus? The plan was that the main queen hive ship would spearhead invasion of Milky way, while at same time a cruiser would carry all materials needed to create foothold on that galaxy and also would provide initial food – humans – so that wraith wouldn't starve. The wraith expected to face entire flotilla of those damned Tau'ri vessels so they needed to properly prepare for this fight. So the main wraith queen let her most trusted ally to do that heavy lifting. Although another hive ship could provide bigger support and could carry more, but the main queen was also paranoid that she may face opposition.

The preparation was going good until Tau'ri learned of their plans and tried to foil them. All this happened because Beatrix leaked information to Todd who was mad that main queen stole ZPM from him. That was done so that main queen would be busy and wouldn't have time to deal with her betrayal and as was foreseen when Tau'ri learned about wraith plans they took decisive action. The mayhem was enough for Beatrix and her cruiser's crew to disappear and begin their journey to nearby miniature galaxy.

The cruiser was full to the brim with darts, building materials and of course humans. The humans suspended in stasis chambers made up more than three fourth of cargo space. They needed to be so numerous because the queen decided to populate new galaxy with them and to minimize the need to feed, the cruiser was only running with skeleton crew, since most of wraith were sleeping.

After weeks of traveling the wraith finally reached the outskirt of new galaxy and started the exploration of their new home. It took another several weeks to find suitable planet capable of sustaining human life since the outskirt was scarce of stars as it its typical for spiral galaxy. A star system was found that shown promise to rebuild what was lost to those damn Tau'ri. It contained only three planet, ocean world and two gas giants (without moons), with scarce recourses, and no stargates or any artificial constructs. It told that no one had yet discovered this place. So once ocean planet was determined to be capable of sustaining humans' life, the wraiths dumped all humans on planet surface. The soil was determined to be rich in minerals and could yield good harvest, capable sustaining huge human population. The chosen planet had two main mini continents separated by big oceans. A world capable to make starting point to recreate wraiths empire away from everyone. Humans were left on bigger of two continents with some of building materials and tools to help their populace settle in their new home. The wraiths at same time decided to put research and cloning facilities on smaller continent. It would take some time to set up everything up, but it was only small step in long term wraiths plan.

After cruiser unloaded all humans and building materials, it was time to start exploration of surrounding systems. It was discovered that there was nothing of note, either in resources, alien life forms, or artificial structures. To summarize everything it was dull place and would hamper any species progress to put any interest there, but it would make no difference for wraith since they don't have dependency on minerals because their ships were of organic origin and could be grown instead of being manufactured. All that was needed was just huge open place and some 'fertilizer', then Mother Nature and engineers will do the rest.

Following galaxy's spinal arm wraiths moved deeper into galaxy and found that this whole sector was devoid of life or exploitable resources. All that started to change when wraith started to detect communication signals from several distant systems. The wraith cruiser went to investigate and found damaged alien ship. There were obvious battle signs: one small wreckage and one damaged ship. The wraith detected that damaged ship still hold life signs and breathable air and decided to board it. The ship held the inhabitants of this galaxy and wraiths future meal: several strange avian like creatures with metallic external skeleton and strange creature in hermetic suit. It was apparent that bird-like creatures sustained some damage and were sluggish, most likely due to battle that this ship had with other ship, but the suited creature was healthy. It took several minutes for wraith to neutralize the crew of this vessel.

The wraith didn't want to stay in vicinity of battle in case more ships would arrive and instead decided to dock alien vessel with the cruiser and leave this place for another, more suited for investigations. The captured ship was treasure trove for information and helped wraith get the taste of their new meal. Of course they had to spend several weeks to understand how alien tech worked. All this time the unused crew of captured ship were put in stasis to prevent them from going bad. The suited creature, which they later learned was volus, was very helpful in providing all needed information after proper translation protocols were established. If only he knew what terrible things would happen next, but it was only tip of iceberg.

Wraith got coordinates of one of the worlds that was like open buffet for wraith. After captured ship crew was no longer useful they served their primary function to wraith, which was food. It was learned that birdlike creatures were very difficult to feed on due to external metallic skeleton that greatly hindered feeding on them and because of that wraith had to reach and touch less armored parts of body like neck in order to properly feed. The suited creature also presented similar challenge since wraith had to liberate it from its suit, but after that it died before any wraith could feed on it properly. In long run this could cause some problem, but for now the wraith were hungry and several specimens were only small appetizer.

It was the night at planet when wraith cruiser exited hyperspace near planet those coordinates were recovered from captured ship. No one detected that danger came to claim them all. Then hundred darts descended on unsuspecting world. The atmosphere of planet was unable to sustain wraiths so they had to rely on darts to do all job, but that also means that no one would know how they looked. They were very careful in that. In several minutes one million of planets inhabitants disappeared in bright flashes of light without any trace. The wraiths were gone before anyone could answer call for help. The only thing inhabitants of this planet would tell will be that there was strange sound then their friends and neighbors would disappear in flashes of light.

The wraiths have harvested their first meal, but it wasn't as rewarding or satisfying since all specimens were of same Volus type. Those suited creatures skins would burst open when exposed to regular atmosphere and shortly they would die. So the wraiths named them 'canned popcorns'. Wraiths spent so much time among humans that they have adopted several words and cultures of humans. The volus was very hard to get out of their suits, but when it was done it provided almost nonexistent nutritional value. Eatable, but not something you could satisfy their hunger with. So after they were done experimenting on how properly open volus, it was decided to better use them as 'fertilizer' to grow new hive ship. After all what queen is without her hive ship?! The wraiths could wait a little bit more when there was whole galaxy for them to feed on.

The omnitools that were recovered provided better view on galaxy and just how tasty it all looked. The most important thing was that there were no pesky humans that could ruin their plans. The closest thing to humans was blue all female race named Asari. If it was right and those blue women could live for thousands years it would be real delicacy to taste them, but for now they could wait.

Wraith returned back to their new planet and fertilized ground with remaining volus, before seeding hive ship. Then they returned back and moved to other planet, those coordinates were retrieved from omintools, a planet rich with four eye specimens that should be easier to feed on; the terror had befallen one of batarian's colony. At first wraith captured only several subjects to test edibility of them, but after it was decided that they were tasty, the order to cull the planet was given. No one was spared! All inhabitants of planet were 'collected' and onboard cruiser. This was the first feast wraith had and they were very hungry. When Hegemony forces arrived to investigate why one of their terminus colonies went silent they found only silence and nothing more. The city was standing empty and only wind scattered dust and trash. Video records only shown screaming population, but their attacker remained mystery. The Hegemony decided to keep this incident secret and recolonize planet. No one needed to know that they were incapable of protecting their citizens or enforce law in Terminus.

More information was collected on inhabitants and their power structure. The Citadel council could squash emerging wraith empire in its infancy if wraith got too greedy and were discovered. Queen Beatrix decided that the change of tactics was necessary if they wanted to survive and prosper. Her wraiths had just got nice appetizer and if they played right, the rest of galaxy would be their main course. The four eyed freaks sated the hunger for now. There even were several Asari. Those blue skinned women were presented for queen and her command staff. It was proved right. Asari were so full of life that single individual could sate single wraith for millennium or dozen of wraith for smaller amount of time. It was truly delicious to feed on them. Now it was time for deception. Beatrix decided to play with Citadel council like predator plays with its meal before killing it. That required to find a planet capable to sustain wraith population and make it look like it was their homeworld, which could be close to Asari space, but would also contain one of those strange inactive devices that allowed inhabitants of this galaxy to travel the stars.

A new search started and one year later a suitable planet was found. It will be the biggest lie in galaxy. A place where wraiths came from or at least that's what everyone else will know. It will take wraiths whole age to build proper colony there to make it look like they lived there forever, but they could do that. The most of wraith population would be assigned planet side for construction. At same time the cruiser would look for lost or unsuspecting ships and capture them. Those mostly were of pirate or smuggler descent and no one would go looking for them. To look like regular residents of this galaxy, wraith also needed similar looking ships and knowledge of how to operate them. The crews of captured ships were pressed to work on new wraith 'homeworld' or eaten if they we good for nothing. Wraith in past have spent countless times hunting humans and knew how their architecture looked, but had no idea of how to build them so the buildings wraith workers built were all different and strange. At first it was decided to torn down everything, but later queen Beatrix decided to build on top of it and use captured aliens to build stuff for them. It was hard to find right men and women that had any knowledge of construction or engineering, but there was lot of time and the galaxy was full of them. The wraith just needed to capture them. It was ordinary that people would disappear in Terminus systems so no one moved a finger to investigate why it was so and instead wrote them off as slavers raids.

Just men and women doing construction work wasn't enough, they also needed construction materials and other supplies, but there was also way out. Pirates! Active pirate number in terminus systems decreased greatly because they all started to disappear and no one knew why, but piracy as whole remained same. There was still need for illegal goods or personnel to be transferred and with decreased number of 'contractors' the prices rose at same time encouraging others to take up such opportunity, and while there were still some pirates that preyed on cargo ships, now it was more profitable to move one huge cargo load that sit in one place and hope for prey. Even those that liked to blow ships up and collect loot after had something to do since with smuggler rush most of them earned enough money to hire proper escort force. The Hegemony used this as campaign to tell the rest of galaxy of how good they were enforcing law in this lawless place. The rest of galaxy, especially Citadel council, saw it all as someone uniting all pirates and getting rid of those that didn't want to join them, but all their investigations were met with brick wall. No one knew what was happening or who did it. Sometimes agents and even spectres wouldn't even return from their assignments. At same time Aria used this moment to cement her power over terminus systems and getting Eclipse tight under her grip. Jona Sederis disappeared at some point in Terminus systems and her left vacuum was quickly filled by Aria.

At this time you could simply categorize pirates in to two groups: those that dared to venture outside and got huge profit and those that were too scary to go there and instead decided to stay docked and wait for things to settle down. Omega being biggest watering hole also housed largest pirate and smugglers population and they all either drunk stuff provided there or caused the riots when there were no more stuff to drink. It was more profitable for Aria to import more booze and sell it for higher price than let those filthy people bash each other heads and wreck her stuff. Some even theorized that Aria may be the one that tried to unite Terminus systems. Now instead of traffic being dispersed all across Terminus systems, more or less, now more than ninety percent of all goods traffic and credits were going to Omega and making other Terminus systems either starve or pay even more to get the meager goods their population required or produced and if there were no one willing to buy the goods there also were no money to pay for new ones. The huge financial crisis befall entire sector.

Finally Council decided to send fleet to investigate it, but it didn't get any results. At same time pirates increased their attacks on council space. With the chaos in terminus systems and people disappearing left and right, it was safer and more profitable to attack council space than go against unknown bogeyman in terminus that would be certain death.

Several warlords tried to explore and expand their territory and influence in Terminus following Aria's model, but not all were so lucky, with some disappearing without trace and leaving their petty organizations leaderless. Lots of quarians never finished their pilgrimage, got lost and disappeared in Terminus systems.

When when wraiths were finishing to build their 'homeworld' and fleets, they learned that their worst enemy – humans – were also here. Luckily they were not Tau'ri, or it would mean end to wraith plans, but independent party that just entered galactic scene with the bang. Apparently some battarians had bright idea to open several dormant relays, but instead of finding empty space, they found humans who shown them what happens when you kick hornets nest. Battarian expeditions were forced to run from male asari looking species that was angry and ready to skin them.

If wraith knew something about humans it was that they could be cunning and unpredictable and capable of causing huge chaos and mayhem. Some of wraith advised that they should drop this deception and attack them before they got stronger, but queen's cold mind prevailed. They would ignore humans for now and continue with the plan. It would take several more years to complete homeworld, deception fleet and attack fleets. After all wraith were planning long term and no human would stand in their way when the right time has came. At same time newly built cruisers would continue to raid Terminus systems, capturing ships and food for the wraith. Several dozen female wraiths were born and raised at same time. The queen Beatrix was the single female and if she would die her entire race would slowly die with her. Additional females were part of long time plan for wraiths to succeed in this galaxy.

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The time has finally come for wraith to introduce themselves to the rest of galaxy. A small fleet of oddly looking metallic – at least for wraith – ships were gathered and prepared to activate dormant mass relay. All aliens that were captured and forced to build facilities were eaten and all traces of them ever being here were removed. Now it all looked like regular homeworld for regular spiecies in this galaxy. For others it would look as if someone took battarians, turians, salarians and asary architecture and smashed it together into huge chaos. Like something batarians tried to do, but on even grander scale. Also the population that lived there was strange: ninety nine percents of all individuals were male and only single percent were female. All females were held in high regard and held commanding or leading roles and at same time were worshiped like 'queens', but there was only one true queen: queen Beatrix of Iratus kingdom. The old system, were there were sovereign queens commanding their own hiveships, was deemed flawed and was reformed into new order, where was only one queen with rest of females following her lead in strict hierarchic order. To cover their true name, wraith adopted the name of Iratus as name of their species. After the first hive ship was built, it was devised that it will be better to build dozen cruisers to make raiding more efficient instead of another hive ship and also because smaller colonies didn't had huge population or protection. Wraiths didn't want to scare the rest of galaxy just yet and with dozen cruisers they could hit dozen targets at same time.

Wraith cruiser towed scoutship to citadel space where it exited near inactive mass relay, leading to their new 'homeworld' was located and after finishing its job retreated several light years to observe and provide support if needed. Now all rest upon those several brave wraiths, whom were put in to that small tin can, to make future bright for the rest of wraiths. The ship set course toward active mass relay leading deeper into asari space in case initial contact wouldn't be made in this system. They didn't need to wait for long and after several hours were intercepted by sectors patrol, which consisted mostly of asari, as it was expected.

"Unknown ship please identify yourself or we will be force to stop you." Asari voice sounded through coms.