To assume the Glukkon's would die out without Maggie is to assume that Maggie is over a mellenia old.
I would think that things operate with Glukkons and their queens much as they do in the insect world of Earth, in which new queens are created to replace the deceased. It's improbable that Maggie would have been the only Glukkon queen for so long, she's merely the replacement of their former - hell, even if she were the only ever available Glukkon queen, it would mean their entire species was doomed to fail from the beginning. Everything dies, after all.
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