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Ported to OBJ and custom textured by me from the STL format model by crazygit. Based on the original design as created by Forest Brown and Dana Knutson for FASA Corporation's various Trek Franchise licensed gaming products back in the day. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download crazygit's model at the link below but be warned! STL models are made for use with a 3D printer and come untextured, with the end used expected to hand paint them after printing them on a 3D printer. Furthermore this model is presented as one solid piece and is thus very difficult to break into individual parts for proper texturing. Anyway, here's the link:

www.thingiverse.com/thing:4962…

The Kinshaya are one of the few intelligent species in known space in the Trek multiverse who can rightly claim to have put the Klingon Empire in its place, as it were, should they ever care to claim it. They inhabit a large area of space on one of the Empire's borders known as the Demon's Rift. The Klingons have always claimed the Demon's Rift as their own in spite of the Kinshaya presence, and it was due largely to the expected and usual aggressions by the Klingons in the first half of the TOS/TAS era when the Kinshaya decided they had finally had enough and were going to do something about. Their battle fleets came screaming out of the Demon's Rift with both technology and weaponry far superior to what the Klingons had at the time, and dealt the Klingon Empire its first major blow since its founding. Had not the Empire been arming for a war with the Federation at the time and thus had sheer numbers to offset the superiority of Kinshaya vessels, then the subsequent Demon War would have had a quick and bad ending for them. All the same it took everything the Klingons had at the time to beat the Kinshaya fleets back to the Demon's Rift, but once they got there they could go no farther. That was when the Kinshaya called in their reserves and held the line against wave after wave of massed Klingon attacks. The Demon War finally ground down to an uneasy stalemate for the simple reason that both sides had exhausted themselves, and this state of affairs - an uneasy unofficial truce - has been maintained at the Demon's Rift ever since. The old Imperial Klingon government officially claimed a great victory over the Kinshaya and much hullabaloo was made about it at the time. The Klingons still claim victory even to this day, although the surviving unedited and unredacted accounts of those Klingons who actually fought in the Demon War (along with subsequent revelations by the Kinshaya far later down the timeline) tell quite a different tale. That said, the Klingons still occasionally probe the Demon's Rift looking for any signs of weakness, but sooner or later (often sooner) the Kinshaya virtually stomp on such probing and it ends for the time being. I also note that in some threads of the Trek multiverse and far later down the timeline in the late 24th century, after the various Borg incursions, the Kinshaya will come out of the rift and join the Typhon Pact during the timeframe of the Dominon War, fielding a whole new array of superior starships and weaponry of which the Klingons could but dream. I'll let others deal with the Kinshaya in that time frame; my focus for my Kinshaya sub-gallery at Mandel's is on their TOS/TAS and TMP era starships.

This is a typical Kinshaya light void sphere from the early TOS/TAS era, as documented in the Klingon records from the timeframe of the Demon War. It was code named Demon Claw by the Klingons (Th. H. vIlle [VEEL-lay]), and it roughly corresponds to a destroyer class starship in most contemporary fleets fielded by the major spacefaring powers from this era. While it's no faster than the best Klingon battlecruiser from this same time frame it is far more maneuverable and has greater energy output from its warp engines, which in turn is used for beefed-up energy screens and shielding. It sports four beam weapons that are one-and-a-half times more powerful than standard TOS/TAS era Klingon disruptors (!), and later versions were modified to carry two Kinshaya energy torpedo launchers, again far more powerful than Klingon style photon torpedoes. In other words, this may be the smallest of the TOS/TAS era Kinshaya void spheres but it has the maneuverability of a destroyer combined with the energy output and firepower of a front line capital starship from this era. No wonder the Klingon starships of the era had trouble with these.

Please be advised that the color scheme you see is entirely my own. I have no idea what the official FASA color scheme for Kinshaya ships is supposed to be, as I never bought any of the gaming miniatures back in the day and I can't find any scans for the official FASA one. If anybody can or has them, please let me know and I'll try to update accordingly when I find the time. You are also welcome to download krazygit's model and "paint" it yourself, and you can in turn have as much "fun" applying your own textures as did I.

This is semi-canon, as it comes from a Franchise licensed product (the old FASA gaming materials).

ASIDE - If you want to know what a more advanced Kinshaya void sphere from the TMP era looks like, then check out these old fanon design sketches by Atolm (aka AtolmAzel), which I featured on one of the pages of my own Guide to the Klingon Fleet (GKF):

If you need more ideas for other types of Kinshaya vessels from the early TOS era then check out this sketch by deviantArt's own zvjerkourski:

Description

Ported to OBJ and custom textured by me from the STL format model by crazygit. Based on the original design as created by Forest Brown and Dana Knutson for FASA Corporation's various Trek Franchise licensed gaming products back in the day. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download crazygit's model at the link below but be warned! STL models are made for use with a 3D printer and come untextured, with the end used expected to hand paint them after printing them on a 3D printer. Furthermore this model is presented as one solid piece and is thus very difficult to break into individual parts for proper texturing. Anyway, here's the link:

www.thingiverse.com/thing:4962…

The Kinshaya are one of the few intelligent species in known space in the Trek multiverse who can rightly claim to have put the Klingon Empire in its place, as it were, should they ever care to claim it. They inhabit a large area of space on one of the Empire's borders known as the Demon's Rift. The Klingons have always claimed the Demon's Rift as their own in spite of the Kinshaya presence, and it was due largely to the expected and usual aggressions by the Klingons in the first half of the TOS/TAS era when the Kinshaya decided they had finally had enough and were going to do something about. Their battle fleets came screaming out of the Demon's Rift with both technology and weaponry far superior to what the Klingons had at the time, and dealt the Klingon Empire its first major blow since its founding. Had not the Empire been arming for a war with the Federation at the time and thus had sheer numbers to offset the superiority of Kinshaya vessels, then the subsequent Demon War would have had a quick and bad ending for them. All the same it took everything the Klingons had at the time to beat the Kinshaya fleets back to the Demon's Rift, but once they got there they could go no farther. That was when the Kinshaya called in their reserves and held the line against wave after wave of massed Klingon attacks. The Demon War finally ground down to an uneasy stalemate for the simple reason that both sides had exhausted themselves, and this state of affairs - an uneasy unofficial truce - has been maintained at the Demon's Rift ever since. The old Imperial Klingon government officially claimed a great victory over the Kinshaya and much hullabaloo was made about it at the time. The Klingons still claim victory even to this day, although the surviving unedited and unredacted accounts of those Klingons who actually fought in the Demon War (along with subsequent revelations by the Kinshaya far later down the timeline) tell quite a different tale. That said, the Klingons still occasionally probe the Demon's Rift looking for any signs of weakness, but sooner or later (often sooner) the Kinshaya virtually stomp on such probing and it ends for the time being. I also note that in some threads of the Trek multiverse and far later down the timeline in the late 24th century, after the various Borg incursions, the Kinshaya will come out of the rift and join the Typhon Pact during the timeframe of the Dominon War, fielding a whole new array of superior starships and weaponry of which the Klingons could but dream. I'll let others deal with the Kinshaya in that time frame; my focus for my Kinshaya sub-gallery at Mandel's is on their TOS/TAS and TMP era starships.

This is a typical Kinshaya light void sphere from the early TOS/TAS era, as documented in the Klingon records from the timeframe of the Demon War. It was code named Demon Claw by the Klingons (Th. H. vIlle [VEEL-lay]), and it roughly corresponds to a destroyer class starship in most contemporary fleets fielded by the major spacefaring powers from this era. While it's no faster than the best Klingon battlecruiser from this same time frame it is far more maneuverable and has greater energy output from its warp engines, which in turn is used for beefed-up energy screens and shielding. It sports four beam weapons that are one-and-a-half times more powerful than standard TOS/TAS era Klingon disruptors (!), and later versions were modified to carry two Kinshaya energy torpedo launchers, again far more powerful than Klingon style photon torpedoes. In other words, this may be the smallest of the TOS/TAS era Kinshaya void spheres but it has the maneuverability of a destroyer combined with the energy output and firepower of a front line capital starship from this era. No wonder the Klingon starships of the era had trouble with these.

Please be advised that the color scheme you see is entirely my own. I have no idea what the official FASA color scheme for Kinshaya ships is supposed to be, as I never bought any of the gaming miniatures back in the day and I can't find any scans for the official FASA one. If anybody can or has them, please let me know and I'll try to update accordingly when I find the time. You are also welcome to download krazygit's model and "paint" it yourself, and you can in turn have as much "fun" applying your own textures as did I.

This is semi-canon, as it comes from a Franchise licensed product (the old FASA gaming materials).

ASIDE - If you want to know what a more advanced Kinshaya void sphere from the TMP era looks like, then check out these old fanon design sketches by Atolm (aka AtolmAzel), which I featured on one of the pages of my own Guide to the Klingon Fleet (GKF):

If you need more ideas for other types of Kinshaya vessels from the early TOS era then check out this sketch by deviantArt's own zvjerkourski: