Coldamber's cruiser

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Coldamber's cruiser
Production information
Manufacturer	Wraith
Class	Cruiser
Technical specifications
Length	2,500 meters
Width	1,500 meters
Engine unit(s)	Wraith thrusters Sublight engines Wraith hyperdrive
Hyperdrive system	Limited interstellar
Shielding	None
Hull	Trinium/Organic
Sensor systems	Wraith sensor
Control systems	Neural interface
Armament	Energy weapons
Complement	Wraith Darts
Crew	3
Passengers	50
Other systems	Self-destruct
Usage
Role(s)	Battleship Transport
Status	Damaged
Affiliation	Wraith Coldamber
Out of universe information
Appearances	Stargate: Atlantis *"Submersion"

John Sheppard: "A Wraith cruiser."

Rodney McKay: "It seems completely buried in the silt."

Radek Zelenka: "Which means it's been here a very, very, very long time."

Rodney McKay: "Yes, give or take a very."

—On Coldamber's submerged Wraith Cruiser.

This unidentified Wraith cruiser was commanded by Coldamber, the original Queen Death, during the Lantean-Wraith war. It was shot down above Lantea and crashed into the ocean, where it was found over ten thousand years later by the Atlantis expedition.

Crew

Commanding officers

• Coldamber — Hive queen

History

Coldamber oversees the Wraith fleet approaching Lantea from her cruiser.

Queen Coldamber led this cruiser as part of the first wave of Wraith ships that besieged the Lantean city-ship Atlantis. However, it was damaged in battle with the Lanteans and crashed into the ocean of Lantea. Coldamber survived the crash, as well as at least part of the crew on whom the queen fed so she could survive.

The cruiser was discovered by the Atlantis expedition in 2007 during their exploration of the mobile drilling platform located one kilometer away; by that time, the ship was buried in silt but seemed to be relatively intact. Sensing the presence of Teyla Emmagan, an Athosian with some Wraith DNA, Coldamber awoke from hibernation, activated the self-destruct on her ship (with a two-hour countdown), and swam to the drilling platform in an attempt to escape. Dr. Rodney McKay discovered that the crust beneath the cruiser was so thin that the cruiser’s explosion would release enough geothermal energy to annihilate much of the planet, including Atlantis.

Donning Ancient pressure suits, Dr. McKay and Lt. Colonel John Sheppard boarded Coldamber’s cruiser in order to try deactivating the self-destruct. Dr. McKay found the ship to be in surprisingly good condition. With that in mind, Teyla Emmagan tricked Coldamber into disabling the self-destruct sequence with a false memory of how she and Sheppard discussed repairing the cruiser’s engines. After reaching her ship and disabling the self-destruct, Coldamber was killed by Sheppard and McKay. The Wraith Cruiser itself was presumed to be left abandoned on the ocean floor, never to be recovered or studied, even after Coldamber herself was finally killed. (SGA: "Submersion")

Major campaigns

• First siege of Atlantis
• Skirmish on the Mobile drilling platform

References

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