Tholian Jorogumo Carrier

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.

During its retrofitting process, the biggest improvements to the Tholian Jorogumo Carrier stemmed from a re-design of the lattice components that link the main ship structures. Changes to the internal environment to make it suitable for humanoid life had made this design be significantly less performant, and this re-design removed the bottleneck that had arisen there.

With this reconfigured structure in place, in addition to the optimizations made elsewhere to attempt to work around the bottleneck, engineers aboard the Jorogumo found themselves with a substantial surplus of power available for use. Some of this surplus was used for improvements such as an improved slipstream drive, additional flexibility on the bridge stations, higher power reserves, and a project best described as “highly innovative.”

As a final note on the retrofitting project, the team’s weapons experts believe they’ve finally unlocked the means by which Tholians simultaneously target the subsystems of several ships with such high precision. While this starship is uniquely suited to this tactic, the report suggests that, given enough practice, any officer should be able to replicate it on other starships.

It also comes with a, which has a chance to drain weapon and engine power from a target.

Universal consoles
The comes equipped with the.

This console is part of the Tholian Technologies Set, which also includes and  obtainable from other Tholian vessels. For each console added after the first, an additional passive bonus is unlocked.



Equipping all three consoles unlocks the following active ability:

Cyclical Quantum Slipstream Drive
Cyclical Quantum Slipstream Drive is a built-in ability which allows improved Sector Space travel speed of 107.8 (approx Warp 23) for 90 seconds instead of normal 30 seconds. Re-initializing it takes 30 seconds instead of normal 120 seconds.

Hangar bay
The comes with two hangar bays of Tholian Mesh Weavers, armed with Tetryon Beams and Thermionic Torpedoes. The Jorogumo also unlocks Tholian Widow Fighters for use, armed with Tetryon Beams and Quantum Torpedoes. Both pets are also designed to work with the Tholian Tetryon Grid ability.

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.

Ship comparison

 * The following table compares t6 Science Carriers.

Trivia

 * Jorogumo means diadem spider in Japanese language, as well as mythical spider monster in Japanese myths.