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They die...

Depending upon the details they could be kept alive in a herd for Wraith feeding. Various healing devices might reduce the number of Jaffa / Goa'uld required to feed a given group of Wraith.

I have no direct support for this opinion, so I'll work through a logic tree based upon the facts available in the show (I've only read one novel).

Can a Wraith kill a Jaffa / Goa'uld?

1. A Wraith's feeding kills in seconds - less than a minute for sure.
2. Symbiote healing takes many hours to days (depending upon the severity of healing required).
3. Therefore, "yes" a Wraith can kill a Jaffa or Goa'uld in not much longer than the time it takes to kill a human

Can a Wraith "farm" Jaffa / Goa'uld for sustenance - meaning if allowed to live, could the symbiote heal the damage done by a Wraith's healing? In series, symbiont healing works by the power of plot (it does / doesn't do) what the writers need for a given story, but

1. I feel that "yes" is more consistent with the TV series than "no".
2. A symbiote enables the human host to survive trauma that a human without a symbiont could not.
3. A symbiote retards ageing and allows the host to survive for many hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.
4. Meaning the Wraith could develop a "herd" of Goa'uld for feeding purposes.

How would a hand device or sarcophagus impact the equation?

1. Hand devices are less powerful than sarcophagi but work faster (seconds to a minute).
2. Sarcophagi can heal most anything - including death in humans but take hours to a day to work.
3. My impression is that a Wraith could still kill someone being actively healed by either of these.
4. There is an episode of SG1 (Season 5, Episode 8, "The Tomb") in which a Goa'uld is sentenced to the most horrible death his priests could imagine, burying him in a working sarcophagus with a flesh eating critter. The sarcophagus in combination with the symbiont try to heal the damage done by the flesh eating critter - nice. The episode does not say how long it took for the Goa'uld to die.
5. Therefore, if the Wraith could get their hands on a sarcophagi, then they could make do with fewer Goa'uld in herd to sustain the Wraith.
6. But as the point in #4 shows, it is possible to kill them with overwhelming the healing with many small hurts.

They die...

Depending upon the details they could be kept alive in a herd for Wraith feeding. Various healing devices might reduce the number of Jaffa / Goa'uld required to feed a given group of Wraith.

I have no direct support for this opinion, so I'll work through a logic tree based upon the facts available in the show (I've only read one novel).

Can a Wraith kill a Jaffa / Goa'uld?

1. A Wraith's feeding kills in seconds - less than a minute for sure.
2. Symbiote healing takes many hours to days (depending upon the severity of healing required).
3. Therefore, "yes" a Wraith can kill a Jaffa or Goa'uld in not much longer than the time it takes to kill a human

Can a Wraith "farm" Jaffa / Goa'uld for sustenance - meaning if allowed to live, could the symbiote heal the damage done by a Wraith's healing? In series, symbiont healing works by the power of plot (it does / doesn't do) what the writers need for a given story, but

1. I feel that "yes" is more consistent with the TV series than "no".
2. A symbiote enables the human host to survive trauma that a human without a symbiont could not.
3. A symbiote retards aging and allows the host to survive for many hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.
4. Meaning the Wraith could develop a "herd" of Goa'uld for feeding purposes.

How would a hand device or sarcophagus impact the equation?

1. Hand devices are less powerful than sarcophagi but work faster (seconds to a minute).
2. Sarcophagi can heal most anything - including death in humans but take hours to a day to work.
3. My impression is that a Wraith could still kill someone being actively healed by either of these.
4. There is an episode of SG1 (Season 5, Episode 8, "The Tomb") in which a Goa'uld is sentenced to the most horrible death his priests could imagine, burying him in a working sarcophagus with a flesh eating critter. The sarcophagus in combination with the symbiont try to heal the damage done by the flesh eating critter - nice. The episode does not say how long it took for the Goa'uld to die.
5. Therefore, if the Wraith could get their hands on a sarcophagus, then they could make do with fewer Goa'uld in herd to sustain the Wraith.
6. But as the point in #4 shows, it is possible to kill them with overwhelming the healing with many small injuries.

They die...

Depending upon the details they could be kept alive in a herd for Wraith feeding. Various healing devices might reduce the number of Jaffa / Goa'uld required to feed a given group of Wraith.

I have no direct support for this opinion, so I'll work through a logic tree based upon the facts available in the show (I've only read one novel).

Can a Wraith kill a Jaffa / Goa'uld?

1. A Wraith's feeding kills in seconds - less than a minute for sure.
2. Symbiont healing takes many hours to days (depending upon the severity of healing required).
3. Therefore, "yes" a Wraith can kill a Jaffa or Goa'uld in not much longer than the time it takes to kill a Tau'ri

Can a Wraith "farm" Jaffa / Goa'uld for sustenance - meaning if allowed to live, could the symbiont heal the damage done by a Wraith's healing? In series, symbiont healing works by the power of plot (it does / doesn't do) what the writers need for a given story, but

1. I feel that "yes" is more consistent with the TV series than "no".
2. A symbiont enables the human host to survive trauma that a human without a symbiont could not.
3. A symbiont retards aging and allows the host to survive for many hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.
4. Meaning the Wraith could develop a "herd" of Goa'uld for feeding purposes.

How would a hand device or sarcophagus impact the equation?

1. Hand devices are less powerful than sarcophagi but work faster (seconds to a minute).
2. Sarcophagi can heal most anything - including death in humans but take hours to a day to work.
3. My impression is that a Wraith could still kill someone being actively healed by either of these.
4. There is an episode of SG1 (Season 5, Episode 8, "The Tomb") in which a Goa'uld is sentenced to the most horrible death his priests could imagine, burying him in a working sarcophagus with a flesh eating critter. The sarcophagus in combination with the symbiont try to heal the damage done by the flesh eating critter - nice. The episode does not say how long it took for the Goa'uld to die.
5. Therefore, if the Wraith could get their hands on a sarcophagi, then they could make do with fewer Goa'uld in herd to sustain the Wraith.
6. But as the point in #4 shows, it is possible to kill them with overwhelming the healing with many small hurts.

They die...

Depending upon the details they could be kept alive in a herd for Wraith feeding. Various healing devices might reduce the number of Jaffa / Goa'uld required to feed a given group of Wraith.

I have no direct support for this opinion, so I'll work through a logic tree based upon the facts available in the show (I've only read one novel).

Can a Wraith kill a Jaffa / Goa'uld?

1. A Wraith's feeding kills in seconds - less than a minute for sure.
2. Symbiote healing takes many hours to days (depending upon the severity of healing required).
3. Therefore, "yes" a Wraith can kill a Jaffa or Goa'uld in not much longer than the time it takes to kill a human

Can a Wraith "farm" Jaffa / Goa'uld for sustenance - meaning if allowed to live, could the symbiote heal the damage done by a Wraith's healing? In series, symbiont healing works by the power of plot (it does / doesn't do) what the writers need for a given story, but

1. I feel that "yes" is more consistent with the TV series than "no".
2. A symbiote enables the human host to survive trauma that a human without a symbiont could not.
3. A symbiote retards ageing and allows the host to survive for many hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.
4. Meaning the Wraith could develop a "herd" of Goa'uld for feeding purposes.

How would a hand device or sarcophagus impact the equation?

1. Hand devices are less powerful than sarcophagi but work faster (seconds to a minute).
2. Sarcophagi can heal most anything - including death in humans but take hours to a day to work.
3. My impression is that a Wraith could still kill someone being actively healed by either of these.
4. There is an episode of SG1 (Season 5, Episode 8, "The Tomb") in which a Goa'uld is sentenced to the most horrible death his priests could imagine, burying him in a working sarcophagus with a flesh eating critter. The sarcophagus in combination with the symbiont try to heal the damage done by the flesh eating critter - nice. The episode does not say how long it took for the Goa'uld to die.
5. Therefore, if the Wraith could get their hands on a sarcophagi, then they could make do with fewer Goa'uld in herd to sustain the Wraith.
6. But as the point in #4 shows, it is possible to kill them with overwhelming the healing with many small hurts.

They die...

Depending upon the details they could be kept alive in a herd for Wraith feeding. Various healing devices might reduce the number of Jaffa / Goa'uld required to feed a given group of Wraith.

I have no direct support for this opinion, so I'll work through a logic tree based upon the facts available in the show (I've only read one novel).

Can a Wraith kill a Jaffa / Goa'uld?

1. A Wraith's feeding kills in seconds - less than a minute for sure.
2. Symbiont healing takes many hours to days (depending upon the severity of healing required).
3. Therefore, "yes" a Wraith can kill a Jaffa or Goa'uld in not much longer than the time it takes to kill a Tau'ri

Can a Wraith "farm" Jaffa / Goa'uld for sustenance - meaning if allowed to live, could the symbiont heal the damage done by a Wraith's healing? In series, symbiont healing works by the power of plot (it does / doesn't do) what the writers need for a given story, but

1. I feel that "yes" is more consistent with the TV series than "no".
2. A symbiont enables the human host to survive trauma that a human without a symbiont could not.
3. A symbiont retards aging and allows the host to survive for many hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.
4. Meaning the Wraith could develop a "herd" of Goa'uld for feeding purposes.

How would a hand device sarcophagus impact the equation?

1. Hand devices are less powerful than sarcophagi but work faster (seconds to a minute).
2. Sarcophagi can heal most anything - including death in humans but take hours to a day to work.
3. My impression is that a Wraith could still kill someone being actively healed by either of these.
4. There is an episode of SG1 (Season 5, Episode 8, "The Tomb") in which a Goa'uld is sentenced to the most horrible death his priests could imagine, burying him in a working sarcophagus with a flesh eating critter. The sarcophagus in combination with the symbiont try to heal the damage done by the flesh eating critter - nice. The episode does not say how long it took for the Goa'uld to die.
5. Therefore, if the Wraith could get their hands on a sarcophagi, then they could make do with fewer Goa'uld in herd to sustain the Wraith.
6. But as the point in #4 shows, it is possible to kill them with overwhelming the healing with many small hurts.

They die...

Depending upon the details they could be kept alive in a herd for Wraith feeding. Various healing devices might reduce the number of Jaffa / Goa'uld required to feed a given group of Wraith.

I have no direct support for this opinion, so I'll work through a logic tree based upon the facts available in the show (I've only read one novel).

Can a Wraith kill a Jaffa / Goa'uld?

1. A Wraith's feeding kills in seconds - less than a minute for sure.
2. Symbiont healing takes many hours to days (depending upon the severity of healing required).
3. Therefore, "yes" a Wraith can kill a Jaffa or Goa'uld in not much longer than the time it takes to kill a Tau'ri

Can a Wraith "farm" Jaffa / Goa'uld for sustenance - meaning if allowed to live, could the symbiont heal the damage done by a Wraith's healing? In series, symbiont healing works by the power of plot (it does / doesn't do) what the writers need for a given story, but

1. I feel that "yes" is more consistent with the TV series than "no".
2. A symbiont enables the human host to survive trauma that a human without a symbiont could not.
3. A symbiont retards aging and allows the host to survive for many hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.
4. Meaning the Wraith could develop a "herd" of Goa'uld for feeding purposes.

How would a hand device or sarcophagus impact the equation?

1. Hand devices are less powerful than sarcophagi but work faster (seconds to a minute).
2. Sarcophagi can heal most anything - including death in humans but take hours to a day to work.
3. My impression is that a Wraith could still kill someone being actively healed by either of these.
4. There is an episode of SG1 (Season 5, Episode 8, "The Tomb") in which a Goa'uld is sentenced to the most horrible death his priests could imagine, burying him in a working sarcophagus with a flesh eating critter. The sarcophagus in combination with the symbiont try to heal the damage done by the flesh eating critter - nice. The episode does not say how long it took for the Goa'uld to die.
5. Therefore, if the Wraith could get their hands on a sarcophagi, then they could make do with fewer Goa'uld in herd to sustain the Wraith.
6. But as the point in #4 shows, it is possible to kill them with overwhelming the healing with many small hurts.