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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. Certain background elements taken from the Kinshaya starship writeups at the fan-created FASA STSCS website. 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 medium void sphere from the early TOS/TAS era, as documented in the Klingon records from the timeframe of the Demon War. It was initially code named Demon Sphere (Th. H. De'moQ [dee-MOKH], lit. demon ball) by the Klingon when first encounted at the start of the Demon War, and it proved to be a terrifying opponent in those initial battles. It didn't look like much and still doesn't, and the Klingons laughed at it first until they had to fight it. That's when they found it had superior maneuverability, superior warp engines with greater energy output, and more powerful weaponry with excellent coverage from every part of the ship than did their own drell based battlecruisers. The Klingons were forced to field their new B-1 Jul'kar class battleships to counter it and thus were able to stop the initial Kinshaya tide, though at great cost. Not long after the Kinshaya introduced two new ship designs into the fray, the heavy void sphere (see separate entry) and an improved model of their medium void sphere, sporting newtype Kinshaya weaponry that significantly outranged even the longest ranged starship-mounted Klingon weapons. This later version was code named Demon Strike (Th. H. De'ghom [dee-GOHM], lit. demon punch), and large numbers of them were used to help hold the Kinshaya line at the Demon's Rift after the Klingons finally manged by sheer will and overwhelming force of numbers to drive them back there. Both versions of the Kinshaya medium void sphere were still occasionally encountered by the Klingons in their various subsequent probes of the Demon's Rift as late as the end of the TOS/TAS era, although it was more often the Demon Strike improved version as the era came to an end and the dawn of the TMP era approached.

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. Certain background elements taken from the Kinshaya starship writeups at the fan-created FASA STSCS website. 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 medium void sphere from the early TOS/TAS era, as documented in the Klingon records from the timeframe of the Demon War. It was initially code named Demon Sphere (Th. H. De'moQ [dee-MOKH], lit. demon ball) by the Klingon when first encounted at the start of the Demon War, and it proved to be a terrifying opponent in those initial battles. It didn't look like much and still doesn't, and the Klingons laughed at it first until they had to fight it. That's when they found it had superior maneuverability, superior warp engines with greater energy output, and more powerful weaponry with excellent coverage from every part of the ship than did their own drell based battlecruisers. The Klingons were forced to field their new B-1 Jul'kar class battleships to counter it and thus were able to stop the initial Kinshaya tide, though at great cost. Not long after the Kinshaya introduced two new ship designs into the fray, the heavy void sphere (see separate entry) and an improved model of their medium void sphere, sporting newtype Kinshaya weaponry that significantly outranged even the longest ranged starship-mounted Klingon weapons. This later version was code named Demon Strike (Th. H. De'ghom [dee-GOHM], lit. demon punch), and large numbers of them were used to help hold the Kinshaya line at the Demon's Rift after the Klingons finally manged by sheer will and overwhelming force of numbers to drive them back there. Both versions of the Kinshaya medium void sphere were still occasionally encountered by the Klingons in their various subsequent probes of the Demon's Rift as late as the end of the TOS/TAS era, although it was more often the Demon Strike improved version as the era came to an end and the dawn of the TMP era approached.

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: