By Michael Bower Putnam

This ominous new battleship, named a Terrorship by those who have survived an attack by one, is designed to show no mercy. Roughly the size of a Galor Class warship, this vessel is large enough to carry two Attack Ships in one of it holds, and is armed to the teeth. Almost insect like in its configuration, the Terrorship's forward weapon array is a mixture of several destructive technologies, gleaned from the Cardassians, the Breen, and other conquered Gamma Quadrant races. The massive Warp/Weapons wings house six forward torpedo launchers. The powerful nacelles are housed in the outer edge of the wings, which terminate in two powerful impulse engines. Weapons turrets threaten from both the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the engineering "abdomen" which tapers down past the cargo hold doors (hidden in the side ribbing of the abdomen) to twin polaron cannons and one final massive aft pulse cannon. Stretching sideways from the tail of the ship is a massive shield emitter. Housing not only the primary shield grid, the flaring triangular emitter is a protective layer of ablative armor, much like the hull of the rest of the ship. This shield fin in combination with rest of the defensive emitters envelope the Terrorship in virtually impregnable layers of protection.

Not only is the vessel an oppressive, brutal force thrown against any species not sympathetic to the Dominion in its offensive maneuvers, it is a devastating weapon if used as a suicide vessel. Its self-destruct systems are tied into multiple stores of matter and antimatter held in close controlled proximity all over the vessel. Its destruction detonates the equivalent of four warp cores, generating enough destructive force to destroy a major starbase, or devastate a small moon. Thus, even if an enemy is capable ot crippling a Terrorship, its destruction would likely mean the fiery end of the opposing warship as well. Truly a vessel designed and created by a race obsessed with the making of war, the brutal, slave warriors named the Jem'Hadar.

Model Notes:

This ship is heavily "bashed" from kits in the Star Wars Universe. The warp/weapons wings are from two Droid STAP models. The command head is two twin sides of a Droid backpack glued back to back and sealed with sheet styrene. The gun turret at the front is assembled from the extras box. The command head is greebled with detail parts from the Star Wars kits and other extras, and it attaches to the engineering abdomen which is made from two identical Batboats halves glued back to back, after having painted the inner chrome machine section hot magenta and transparent grape with accents of brass and gold accents. The armor shield is made from two of the wing elements from a Virago kit, with sheet styrene spanning the open areas. That shield attaches to the Dorsal hump that houses the navigational deflector at the fore and the shield at the aft. That dorsal hump is a leftover piece of a scavenged Batwing kit.

The color scheme is a mix of Champagne gold and Anthracite Gray Metallic with aztecing hand painted in varied shades of the same and detailed with Graphite Metallic. The nacelle grills are sponge painted with hot magenta, transparent candy grape and pearlecent white.

Image: Rear view

Image: Underneath

Image: Front view

Image: Starboard side