Based on a concept art thumbnail for the Imperial Agent’s ship from SWTOR.
The Wraith is the predecessor to the Phantom and Specter-class ships. It was developed on Lianna by the Silviut Corporation. This company was secretly operated by Imperial Intelligence. The X-40 acted as a critical proof of concept for the later X-70B Phantom.
While the Phantom was a large, multirole vessel capable of dogfighting the Wraith was almost exclusively devoted to reconnaissance. The Wraith was designed in such a way to deflect most sensor beams in unexpected patterns and absorb most of the remaining particles and minimize it’s signature. It lacked the cloaking device of the later X-70B but had, in it’s place, a series of holographic emitters which could disguise the ship.
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