Build:Tholian Web
9.9 Tholian Web
Cost: 30
Power Requirement: 5 Power per round to erect; no Power to activate or use once erected
Also known as the “Tholian tractor field,” this weapon uses the Tholians' advanced understanding of gravitic and tractor beam technology to destroy helpless ships. Tholian space and surrounding regions contain many areas of spatial and subspatial distortion which often cripple or trap starships. The Tholians can then erect a web around a ship and utterly destroy it at little or no risk to themselves.
It takes two ships, both equipped with web generators, to construct the Tholian web. They link up and then separate, stretching a golden beam of gravitic/subspace force (similar to a tractor beam) between them. They move apart from each other and begin executing a precise flight pattern around the target ship, constantly “weaving” the web beam around it. Creating the full web requires 2-4 (1+1d3) hours. For every additional two ships helping weave the web, halve the time needed.
Breaking through a Tholian web, whether fully or partially erected, requires great power and effort. The web has a Resistance of 100; breaking a hole in it large enough for a ship to travel through requires 100 SUs of damage per Size of the ship (thus, a Size 3 ship has to do 300 SUs damage to make a sufficiently large hole in the web). A single Tholian ship can repair damaged web at the rate of 30 SUs per round. (Of course, clever crews may devise other methods to break or disrupt the web than sheer force.)
When the Tholians complete the web, they activate it. It collapses in upon the trapped ship, crushing it. It does 200 SUs damage per round until it destroys the target; only Resistance provides any protection against this damage. The Tholians can automatically deactivate and dissipate the web at any time, if they so desire.