Recluse class

The Recluse class^[1]was a 23rd century^[3] Tholian^[1] starship type, a battleship^[1] and carrier^[2] class in Tholian Assembly service by the 2260s^[3] decade. (STO - New Romulus mission: "Azure Nebula Rescue", STO - Agents of Yesterday mission: "Tangled Webs")

History and specifics[]

A battleship of this class was 871 meters long. (STO video game: Under Siege promo image)

Another record gave the ship's length as 459 meters. (STO Collection Issue 18: "Tholian Recluse")

Conversely, the frigate operated by the Tholian Assembly was equipped with a pair of tetryon beam arrays and one thermionic torpedo launcher. Additional offensive systems included the Tholian tetryon grid,^[1] Tholian web generator, Tholian web cannon and the Tholian radiation field^[2] (STO - New Romulus mission: "Azure Nebula Rescue", STO website: Under Siege : New Tholian Lock Box and Lobi Ships)

Like any spacecraft operated by the military of the Khitomer Alliance, ships of this class had access to the Federation transwarp network, the Iconian gateway network, and could attain quantum slipstream and transwarp velocities. (STO - New Dawn mission: "Welcome to Earth Spacedock")

In the 23rd century, ships of this class were part of a Tholian colonial fleet heading into unsurveyed territory. A Tholian queen commanded the Tholian flagship when Na'kuhl from the 29th century attacked the fleet in 2268. The Na'kuhl extremists destroyed all vessels and crippled the flagship, boarding it to eliminate its crew and the hatchlings. The Federation starship USS Defiant and a vessel sent by Temporal Agent Timot Danlen from 2270 arrived to render aid. They repelled the Na'kuhl but the Defiant became trapped in interphase and the queen abandoned the colonization mission. (STO - Agents of Yesterday mission: "Tangled Webs")

In 2270, the USS Enterprise battled a trio of small Recluse-class battleships. (TOS - Year Five - Experienced in Loss comic: "Issue 23")

In 2409, ships of this class were part of the Tholian fleets capturing Romulan warbirds in the Azure Nebula. The Romulan Republic and their allies battled the hostile forces to recover as many warbirds as possible from the asteroid bases. (STO - New Romulus mission: "Azure Nebula Rescue")

In an alternate timeline where Danlen did not curb the Na'kuhl interference, the loss of the Tholian colonial fleet let to a critical deterioration of Federation-Assembly relations in 2270. (STO - Agents of Yesterday mission: "Tangled Webs")

In an alternate timeline where the USS Enterprise-C travelled forward in time from 2344 to 2366^[7], Tasha Yar detected Recluse battleships when the Enterprise-C, now trapped at the Tholian Base in 2409, attempted to escape into the Azure Nebula. The Enterprise outgunned its Tholian captors, and was rescued from an incoming Tarantula-class dreadnought by the USS Pastak. (STO - Yesterday's War mission: "Temporal Ambassador")

Starship classes of the Tholian Assembly
By name	Amethyst • Emerald • Feldspar • Garnet • Weaver • Mesh Weaver • Orb Weaver • Quartz • *Recluse* • Ruby • Sapphire • Shard • Spinner • Tarantula • Widow
By type	Chakuun fighter • Chakuun ghostship • Tholian fighter • 2290s Tholian starship • Tholian cruiser (2270s Tholian cruiser) • Tholian battlecruiser