Tholian Recluse

Tholian Recluse

Class:

Battleship /
Carrier

NPC-Rank:

This article is about the NPC battleship. For the playable vessel, see Tholian Recluse Carrier.

The Tholian Recluse, also known as the Recluse Carrier or Recluse Battleship, is a battleship class used by the Tholian Assembly. They are 871 metres long, larger than most other Tholian ships but still dwarfed by the monstrous Tarantulas.

Armament

Fore Weapons

• [Dual Tetryon Beam Bank]
• [Tetryon Beam Array]
• [Thermionic Torpedo Launcher]

Aft Weapons

• [Tetryon Beam Array]
• [Thermionic Torpedo Launcher]

Abilities

• Beam Array: Fire at Will
• Tholian Tetryon Grid
• Torpedo: High Yield
• Torpedo: Spread
• Tractor Beam

Missions encountered

• Recluses are among the Tholian ships attacking a starbase in:
  • “Starbase Fleet Defense”
  • “Fleet Alert”
  • “Fleet Transport Defense”
• “Azure Nebula Rescue”: Recluses are among the Tholian ships guarding captured Romulan ships in the Azure Nebula.
• “The Vault: Ensnared”: Recluses compose part of a Tholian fleet attempting to capture The Vault.
• “Beta Lankal System Patrol”: Recluses attempt to capture ancient artifacts from the Beta Lankal System.
• “Archer System Patrol”: A Recluse leads the first of several waves of Tholian ships attacking Romulan Republic vessels in the Archer System.
• “Temporal Ambassador”: A Recluse is among a group of Tholian ships that attack the U.S.S Enterprise-C as she attempts to return to her own time. One also appears when the player attempts to scan a temporal anomaly at the beginning of the mission.
• “Sunrise”: A Recluse traps Kal Dano's timeship in a Tholian web in order to steal the Tox Uthat.
• “Stormbound”: A Recluse uses the Tox Uthat to destroy the star of the Na'kuhl System. The player and Kal Dano disable and board the ship to retrieve the device.
• “Crystalline Catastrophe”: Recluses are among a Tholian fleet attempting to defend the Crystalline Entity.
• Recluses are part of Tholian forces engaged in Deep Space Encounters in the Alpha Quadrant.

Gallery

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  Size comparison with other Tholian ships.

Notes

• Tholian ships are named for types of spiders - in this case, the Recluse.
• Recluse Battleships have a 15% chance of creating an interphasic rift (through which Terran Empire ships will appear) upon destruction.