tholians

[Pax]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
The main sequence of ships is very nice. They 'sort of' resemble the only example given in the series, but not too closely. Some of the 'supporting' series like carriers are a little odd, but I guess it's hard to be creative with a single starting idea.

Giving them Crystalline Technology was a natural choice, of course. If only there was a way to simulate the Tholian Web... we can only make them research and use tractor/repulsor beams for now.

Further information on Tholian and Neotholian vessels (and their general configurations, shapes, etc) can be had in SFB products (SFB = Star Fleet Battles; several artists renderings should stil be available, scattered about the website for that game, at the Star Fleet Battles Official Site ).

Several 3D models of Tholian vessels can be found here: SFB Miniatures

Specifically, the Tholian PC ("Patrol Corvette", analogous to an SE4 Escort), CA (Cruiser), DN (Dreadnaught), NCA (NeoTholean Cruiser), and NDA (NeoTholian Dreadnaught).

Oh, for the non-SFBers out tehre: the Tholians aren't native to our galaxy, they're refugees from anotehr one ... they WERE backwater polliticians there. The Neotholians are a remnant of a full Naval squadron that managed to also make the crossing, some years later.

Though the link is unavailable, I do see a listing for a color-paint guide, which would give a good image of colors involved on some of the hulls folks might be unfamiliar with. The individual hull links -do-lead to color-scheme listings.

SFB hulls are based on allof the TV shows, the first filmor two, and the cartoon series (hence being able, legally, to use Niven's Kzin -- he HIMSELF wrote them into a couple episodes of the cartoon, heh).

If folks want, I can dig out my old SFB stuff, then see about borrowing use of a friend's scanner, and thus send a representative sample of the ship types used in "canon" SFB 9where the Tholians have had the best, most thorough treatment).

All the above said ... I've not yet looked at the shipset myself (about to remedy that). Ergo, the above is not meant to be taken as a criticism of Oleg's work ... just a pointer at additional resources for visual data WRT naval vessels of the Tholian Holdfast.