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When Sateda was destroyed, the Wraith took Ronon Dex, implanted a tracking device in him, set him back on a planet, and started chasing him.
The series implies that they did it for fun, some sort of Wraith sport or as a training exercise. Frankly, I think that's a little unlikely, though the characters probably accept it because they don't want to think cold-bloodedly enough about *why* the Wraith would do that to a person.
I think they were using him as a stalking horse. To find previously unknown human populations all they'd have to do is track where he Gated to as he tried to run away from them -- he'd would have lead them to everywhere he felt he might get help, until they caught him again or he started avoiding people.
Given that Ronon's homeworld was very advanced -- energy weapons, body armor, skyscrapers -- I think the Wraith were trying to not only eliminate the Satedans as a threat to themselves, but every culture that might have traded enough technology with Sateda to have a leg up on resisting the cullings.
Ronon knows of at least one human settlement that was wiped out after he spent only a night there -- it's why he'd taken to avoiding humans and lived on a nearly inhospitable world. There might be others that he didn't hear about, especially after he started avoiding human beings. He did go to visit places where there were humans at least occasionally -- he had two different doctors attempt to remove the tracker -- but whether that was before or after he heard about the wiped-out settlement we don't know.
All this suggests to me that the Wraith are pretty darned organized about how they deal with their human prey, though they haven't quite got to the point of domestication (though the Wraith-worshippers are probably a step on the path...) and will be hard to defeat, because the won't break into bickering like the Goa'uld System Lords nor are their any superior alien allies for Atlantis to ally with -- the Ascended Ancients don't care enough about non-Ascended humans to bother.
The series implies that they did it for fun, some sort of Wraith sport or as a training exercise. Frankly, I think that's a little unlikely, though the characters probably accept it because they don't want to think cold-bloodedly enough about *why* the Wraith would do that to a person.
I think they were using him as a stalking horse. To find previously unknown human populations all they'd have to do is track where he Gated to as he tried to run away from them -- he'd would have lead them to everywhere he felt he might get help, until they caught him again or he started avoiding people.
Given that Ronon's homeworld was very advanced -- energy weapons, body armor, skyscrapers -- I think the Wraith were trying to not only eliminate the Satedans as a threat to themselves, but every culture that might have traded enough technology with Sateda to have a leg up on resisting the cullings.
Ronon knows of at least one human settlement that was wiped out after he spent only a night there -- it's why he'd taken to avoiding humans and lived on a nearly inhospitable world. There might be others that he didn't hear about, especially after he started avoiding human beings. He did go to visit places where there were humans at least occasionally -- he had two different doctors attempt to remove the tracker -- but whether that was before or after he heard about the wiped-out settlement we don't know.
All this suggests to me that the Wraith are pretty darned organized about how they deal with their human prey, though they haven't quite got to the point of domestication (though the Wraith-worshippers are probably a step on the path...) and will be hard to defeat, because the won't break into bickering like the Goa'uld System Lords nor are their any superior alien allies for Atlantis to ally with -- the Ascended Ancients don't care enough about non-Ascended humans to bother.
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