10 Worst Ways To Die In The Stargate Universe
6. Being Consumed By The R-75
When a planet refused to convert its denizens to the faith of the Ori, the Priors threw all manner of horrors onto its people. One such horror was the insect designated R-75 by Stargate Command. The little buggers were nocturnal and only ate crops, destroying them from the roots.
As an Ori plague, R-75 devastated a planet's ability to sustain the population's agriculture, but once they got into SGC's hands, things changed. They were given some meat at the Alpha Site to see what might happen, and they changed. They became carnivorous and voracious eating machines with a taste for humans.
Not only did they change to love the taste of people, but they also managed to reproduce asexually and exponentially, quickly managing to bust out of containment. They traveled underground and fixed on their targets via echolocation, making it incredibly difficult to avoid and/or fight against the swarm.
Unfortunately, for several members of SGC, avoiding them became impossible. Anyone who was overtaken by the swarm was eaten alive; their entire bodies consumed. In most cases, this began with the feet before moving up to the torso and head, so they felt everything as it was happening.