Tholian Recluse Carrier

This page is for the playable ship. See Tholian Recluse for the NPC ship.

Tholian Recluse Carrier

Rank:

40px

Tier:

5

Type:

Special/
Carrier

Hull:

43,500

Standard Shields:

7,184 (Mk X)

Shield Modifier:

1.375

Weapons:

3 3
Can equip dual cannons.

Hangar Bays:

2

Crew:

2500

Bridge Officers:

    

Device Slots:

4

Consoles:

2 4 4

Turn Rate:

5.5

Impulse Modifier:

0.18

Bonus Power:

+5 engine power
+5 auxiliary power

Cost:

800

Abilities:

Tholian Tetryon Grid
Launch Tholian Widow Fighters
Carrier Commands
Subsystem Targeting

The Tholian Recluse Carrier is an Admiral (Tier 5) level Carrier. This ship is available to both Federation and KDF players.

The Tholian Recluse Carrier comes with a [Console - Universal - Tholian Tetryon Grid].

The Tholian Recluse Carrier also comes with a [Thermionic Torpedo Launcher], which has a chance to drain weapon and engine power from a target.

Obtaining

The Tholian Recluse Carrier is available from the Lobi Crystal Consortium for for 800 . They may also be found on the exchange, although they may be quite expensive.

Overview

Recent conflicts with the Tholian Assembly have resulted in a handful of captured Tholian vessels. Tholian technology is very different from other Alpha Quadrant powers, and these vessels are prized as opportunities for study as well as new combat vessels. The Tholians' natural environment is hostile to most humanoids, and their ship interiors were designed to support that environment. Much effort has gone into simply modifying the interiors to let personnel board these vessels without environmental suits.

The Tholian Recluse Carrier comes with two hangar bays of Tholian Widow Fighters. Widow fighters are armed with Tetryon Beams and Quantum Torpedoes. The Widows are also designed to work with the Recluse's Tholian Tetryon Grid. This console creates a grid of tetryon Energy that buffs ally energy damage and causes your Tholian Widow Fighters to reflect two tetryon beam attacks at nearby enemy targets. Tholian Widow Fighters and the Tetryon Grid console may only be equipped on the Tholian Recluse Carrier.

Performance

In spite of the poor turnrate value, the Recluse Carrier has better maneuverability than the Caitian Atrox Carrier and Vo'quv Carrier. Its inertia value is 30 (Catitian Atrox : 20), and the impulse modifier is higher (0.18 vs 0.15), which is enough to perform most of the tasks expected of a carrier.

The Universal bridge officer slot allows the players to focus on whatever kind of gameplay they want. It can be turned into a huge tank with an engineer, or a pure science ship with a scientific bridge officer. The carrier's best attribute is its Tholian Widow Fighter bays, which can deploy craft outfitted with tetryon beam weapons and quantum torpedoes, a potent combination useful for weakening enemy shields.

Standard Configuration

These starships come with standard equipment and weapons of the lowest mark available at the ship's minimum rank. The items provided are appropriate to the type of vessel and its related playing style.

Equipment

• 

  
  [Shield Array Mk X]
  
• 

  
  [Deflector Array Mk X]
  
• 

  
  [Impulse Engines Mk X]
  

Fore Weapons

• 

  
  [Tetryon Beam Array Mk X]
  
• 

  
  [Thermionic Torpedo Launcher]
  
• 

  
  [Tetryon Beam Array Mk X]
  

Aft Weapons

• 

  
  [Tetryon Beam Array Mk X]
  
• 

  
  [Quantum Torpedo Launcher Mk X]
  
• 

  
  [Tetryon Beam Array Mk X]
  

Consoles

• 

  
  [Console - Universal - Tholian Tetryon Grid]
  

Hangar

• 

  
  [Hangar - Tholian Widow Fighters]
  
• 

  
  [Hangar - Tholian Widow Fighters]
  

Abilities

Science vessels come with built-in abilities. These abilities do not automatically rank up when acquiring higher tier Science starships and must be gained through Tactical Space Bridge officer abilities.

• Tholian Tetryon Grid
• Launch Tholian Widow Fighters
• Carrier Command - Attack
• Carrier Command - Escort
• Carrier Command - Intercept
• Carrier Command - Recall
• Beam Target Auxiliary Subsystems I
• Beam Target Weapons Subsystems I
• Beam Target Engines Subsystems I
• Beam Target Shields Subsystems I

This ship can launch attack wings of Tholian Widow Fighters in its standard configuration, though other craft can be equipped to be launched. The carrier can also give commands to those craft to order them to attack or defend selected targets.

After activating a subsystem targeting ability, the player will have 30 seconds to attack an enemy ship with any form of beam weapon. The attack will lower power to that system, and have a small chance of completely taking the system offline. If the system is taken offline it renders all abilities that use that subsystem temporarily inert. For example, if you target the shields and subsequently take them offline, then all of the enemies shield facings will go down.

Comparison with Other Carriers

	Caitian Atrox	Klingon Vo'quv	Fek'Ihri Kar'Fi	Tholian Recluse	Jem'Hadar Dreadnought
Weapons	3 , 3	3 , 3	4 , 3	3 , 3	4 , 3
Cannons	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bridge Officers
Consoles	2 3 4	2 3 4	3 2 4	2 4 4	4 4 2
Hull Points	40,500	42,000	34,500	43,500	45,000
Shields (Modifier)	6,270 (1.2)	5,225 (1)	6,270 (1.2)	7,184 (1.375)	6,610 (1.15)
Crew	3,000	4,000	3,000	2,500	3,500
Turn Rate	5	5	7	5.5	6
Device Slots	4	4	3	4	3
Bonus Power	+5 Shields +10 Auxiliary	+10 Auxiliary	+10 Weapons +5 Auxiliary	+5 Engine +5 Auxiliary	+10 Weapons +10 Auxiliary
Special Weapon				Thermonic Torpedo Launcher
Special Console			Phase Shift Generator	Tholian Tetryon Grid	Dominion Commander Interface

External links

• Season 6 Dev Blog #14