Ok, after having recently posted pictures of my Tholian minis here...
ststcsolda.proboards.com/thread/106/trynda1701s-ststcs-minis-cheat?page=5...I'm going to start (finally) to post my Tholian designs!
Please note that all these designs below will follow my design parameters as found in this thread here...
ststcsolda.proboards.com/thread/213/trynda1701s-tholian-construction-systems?page=1...which will be different from other forum members takes on Tholian designs and rules.
So, first of all, my interpretation of the ship seen in the original TOS episode, "The Tholian Web".
THOLIAN "SPINNER" CLASS III PATROL CRUISER(Mini is ADB SL2200 Tholian Patrol Corvette)Photo credit: Design concepts - Original: Matt Jeffrries, SFB version: S Cole?
THOLIAN "SPINNER" CLASS III PATROL CRUISER (by trynda1701)Construction Data:Model Numbers- AShip Class- III
Date Entering Service- UNKNOWN
Number Constructed- ?
Hull Data:Superstructure Points- 9
Damage Chart- C
Size -
Length- 90 meters
Width- 30 meters
Height- 30 meters
Weight- 24,253mt
Cargo -
Cargo Units- ? SCU
Cargo Capacity- ?mt
Landing Capability- ?
Equipment Data:Control Computer Type- TR3M - 25WDF
Transporters-
Standard 6-person- ??
Combat 20-person- ??
Emergency 22-person- ??
Cargo large- ??
Cloaking Device Type- N/A
Other Data:Crew- ??
Passengers- ??
Troops- ??
Shuttlecraft- ??
Engines and Power Data:Total Power Units Available- 21
Movement Point Ratio - 3/2
Warp Engine Type-TRWA-2
Number- 2
Power Units Available- 9ea
Stress Charts- G/F
Maximum Safe Cruising Speed- Warp 6
Emergency Speed- Warp 7
Impulse Engine Type- TRIB-2
Power Units Available- 2
Weapons and Firing Data:
Beam Weapon Type- TTB-1
Number- 4
Firing Arcs- fwd/port/std
Firing Chart- W (range 20)
Maximum Power- 6
Damage Modifiers:
+3 (1-8)
+2 (9-16)
+1 (17-20)
Shields Data:Deflector Shield Type- TFSB
Shield Point Ratio- 1/2
Maximum Shield Power- 9
Web Point Ratio- 1/4
Defense Factor-
120.9Weapon Damage Factor-
26.0Combat Efficiency-
31.4Backstory for the ManualThe smallest Tholian vessel recorded in modern times, but since first contact by the Vulcans, it seems as if the Tholians have fielded similar sized vessels for a century at least.
The initial modern contact was when the
USS Enterprise was conducting search and rescue operations for the
USS Defiant on Stardate 2/1012, which had become trapped in a 'spatial interphase'. The
Enterprise was intercepted by two such vessels, who attempted to construct a tractor field 'web' to capture her, as she was suffering power loss due to the interphase, and being attacked by the first Tholian vessel. The attempt was unsuccessful, but the
Defiant was lost in the interphase with the loss of all hands who had perished due to detrimental effects of the interphase on humanoid psychology beforehand.
My Designers notesDesigned following the criteria in my design system in the second link at the top of this post, here's the basic Tholian vessel shown in the episode. This was designed in 1992, and I gave it two basic field tests against Klingons and then Romulans, so the basic web rules work, it was just the depiction of the web that was the problem.
I had just used one centimeter wide stripes of thin card of differing lengths, added together depending on how long a web you 'cast'. These days, you could perhaps get these Tractor Beam tokens to represent web strands as in my system. They're made by Litko, from here...
www.litko.net/products/Tractor-Beam-Tokens-%288%2C-Clear%29.html#.V-WrsC0o_coAny background for these Tholians is based on SFB data, tweaked to fit FASA. A few details will probably sound like I've finched them from
swede, but that is because they also appear in SFB, and is not meant to cause offense. I'm just making these backstories up as I post the ships stats!
Swedes' posts for his ships are clearly up first on the forum, as can be seen here...
ststcsolda.proboards.com/thread/153/theswedes-tholian-shipsMark