3788 Scale Tholian Police Destroyer Carrier (PDV)

Tholians are a crystalline species that once ruled the M81 Galaxy. When the Tholian Will was overthrown by the Seltorians, some small groups of Tholians fled to other galaxies. One small group of Tholians reached the Milky Way, where they took over the easternmost part of Klingon space, the part that originally bordered the Romulans. They called this the Tholian Holdfast. The Tholians (who considered carbon-based life to be lower than bacteria) enslaved Klingon colonies in the region and kept the Klingons at bay by their (at the time) superior technology. Their foes, the Seltorians, arrived in the Milky Way Galaxy later.

The Tholian police were the first element of the Tholian Holdfast to deploy a police carrier the same year that an undeclared war broke out on the Klingon-Kzinti border. The success of the Police Destroyer Carrier led to the deployment of the Black Widow light carrier three years later. The Tholian police, who did much of the patrolling within the Tholian Holdfast, considered fighters a useful firepower addition and saw the conversion of a police destroyer to this design to be helpful. This carrier can carry eight Spider fighters. It has nine shuttle bays, of which eight are external bays, each holding a single fighter, and one is an internal bay with a single hatch holding two administrative shuttles. This ship is found in Star Fleet Battles: Module R4T – The Tholian Will.

This ship is available in a variety of materials. Ships are unpainted, use standard flight stands available from many sources, and, while designed for gaming, make fine display pieces.