Hiveship

=Hiveship=

Hive ships are the back bone of the Wraith fleet. These massive ships that dwarf any other space faring vessel ever encountered in the Milky way, Pegasus or Celestus galaxies.

When the Wraith were a united enemy during the great cullings, Hive ships served as carriers deploying hundreds of thousands of "dart" fighters for orbital cullings or used to bombard the surface of a planet if the human population chose to fight back just as the Hoffan's and the Satedan's did. While the Wraith are hybernating between cullings, Hive ships land on the surface of a planet and become fortified bastions, protected by a caste of Wraith called "keepers" who watch over the sleeping Wraith and maintain the fleet.

Like other space faring vessels, Hive ships are divided into several sections. The large forward section contains the forward weapons array, sensors and stablising thrusters but the majority of the forward section is one massive honeycomb of chambers for holding culled human's in storage for feeding. The aft section of the ship contains the medial weapons array, dart bays, port and starboard sensor arrays, engine rooms, CO2 scubbing chamber, living quarters, hybernation pods, the bridge and the Queen's chambers.

The outer hull of a Hive ship is quite similar to the shell of an insect, resistant to a whole malady of things such as heat, pressure and radiation only the hull of a Hive ship is a thousand time more dense. Until the addition of the Asgard plasma beam weapons it was incredibly difficult for Earth ships to damage a Hive ship. Railguns only cause minimal damage and most missiles were destroying by kamikasi darts before they hit home. However, a Hive ship does have significant weaknesses. Because of there enormous mass they are slow to maneuver and performing a tight turn or evasive maneuver could concievably rip the ship in half. They are also slow to heal and regenerate, many of there primary systems like life support have no back up system and it is hard for the Wraith to reprogram them to perform new tasks or functions or to tie off old systems that they no longer have any use for.