The description starts with the exterior of the ship and then deals with the interior (arena, combatants' quarters).

As per the specifications obtained by USS Voyager's sensors, the Tsunkatse vessel has a displacement of 5 million metric tonnes, giving it a total mass far larger than USS Voyager and even a Starfleet Galaxy-class ship.

The ship's shield technology is tetryon-based and, along with the dampening field which while active prevents transportation from the ship's interior, cannot be disabled through acts of sabotage without direct access to the control interfaces in the transmission control area. The ship's hull plating is reinforced, protected by co-variant shielding, which is a system that dissipates a directed energy blow around the entire shield matrix, thereby diminishing the impact on a single area.

Fore view:

Aft view:

The vessel is armed with neutronic weaponry which fires a blue particle beam in a continuous stream from multiple emitters located around the exterior of the ship's hull. These weapons have devastating results on Voyager's shields e.g. a single hit reduces shield strength by 8 per cent.

Port view

To abduct and then forcibly "recruit" new fighters, the Tsunkatse ship approaches a vulnerable manned space vehicle. When a USS Voyager shuttlecraft crewed by Tuvok and Seven is its target, its approach is be detected at a range of around 30,000 kilometres. The Tsunkatse ship ignores hails and emits a powerful dampening field which blocks the target ship's communications and disables weapons, engines and shields. An explosive device is then transported aboard the target vessel. The device seems to have an anti-tamper field because Tuvok's attempt to access it is repelled by some kind of energy field shortly before the device explodes. It may be that the anti-tamper field, if activated by any attempt to penetrate it, is itself designed to precipitate the detonation of the explosive charge. Dorsal view Ventral view: The outer hull of the ship, which is constructed from a heavy dark-grey plating, consists of three connected sections: the stern drive unit with two double sets of blue glowing exhausts and angled outer fins, the roughly circular heavily protected central area which houses the arena and Penk's control booth, and the tapered forward section which forms the pointed bow of the ship. The vessel is quite wide and flat, presenting a fairly low profile from the front and rear but if attacked from above or behind it is easier to hit. Four signal transmission dishes are arranged around the outer edges of the middle section and point at 90 degrees from the plane of the ship's hull, while another four angle at around 45 degrees from the uper central section. The Tsunkatse arena, with its holographic cameras, is located on the uppermost deck within a circular section on the upper part of the main hull. They are protected by multiphasic forcefields that cannot be penetrated by Voyager's sensors. But when the Delta Flyer severs a signal generator from the Tsunkatse ship, Penk re-routes power to transmitters 5 and 6 in order to regain the lost half of his audience, and the resulting weakening in the shield strength means that Voyager's transporters are able to lock onto the two combatants in the arena and beam them to Voyager. Title and button font: Hirosh. Scans from TOSTFF unless otherwise stated. Tsunkatse symbol, background tile and ruler: Drawn from scratch by me using screenshots as reference. For more information see Tsunkatse Index page.