Escort carrier for Wraith hive ships, substantially smaller in size compared to their counterparts. Carriers are armed with a number of Wraith weapons, but do not appear to have Dart bays (If the hive ship is destroyed the Darts make kamikaze runs).
In the event that all escorted hive ships are defeated the cruisers typically enter hyperspace to rejoin another fleet. It is not known if the ships are also required to make hyperspace "pit stops" like the hive ships.
USED BY -
FIRST APPEARED -
Letters From Pegasus
KEY EPISODE(S) -
Letters From Pegasus - Sheppard and Teyla witness several Wraith cruisers escorting the larger hive ships during their hyperspace journey to Atlantis.
The Siege, Part 3 - A multitude of Wraith hive ships engage in battle with the Earth ship Daedalus, and break their attack when the ship manages to defeat all of the hive ships.
Critical Mass - Two Wraith cruisers pauses their in-fighting to make a detour to Lantea to inspect a distress beacon recently transmitted by (the now cloaked) Atlantis.
