Combat Support Ship
Q-class Combat Support Ships, also known as Military Auxiliaries form a support or tertiary element of combatant naval fleet forces.
- They serve as combat multipliers enhancing the primary line combatants of battleships and cruisers and the secondary line of various escorts.
- Many call them auxiliaries or tertiary combatants.
- Almost any civilian hull can be redesignated as a Q-class if meant for dedicated military service as an auxiliary.
- Specific military transports meant to assault enemy planets, moons, and other installations under fire are designated I-class Combat Transports.
- The Supraclass designation is also known as Ship Mission, Ship Mission Code, Mission, or Ship Hull Designation.
- It is a starship supraclass.
Library Data Referral Tree
Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:
- Advanced Ship Classifications
- Ship Mission Code / Supraclass
- Ship Type Code / Superclass
- Ship Class Code / Class
- Model (TL)
- Bloc (Lot)
- Astronomical Unit (AU)
- FTL
- Light Speed (c)
- Light-week (lw)
- Light-year (ly)
- NAFAL (STL)
- Parsec (pc)
Description (Specifications)
A Military Auxiliary or Auxiliaries are Combat Support Ships:
- Capital Ships acting in a combat support role to warships.
- Smallcraft of various types that primarily perform utility functions as Utility Craft.
- A whole variety of other auxiliaries function in a combat support role as force multipliers.
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Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)
These craft have a wide variety of uses from cargo, fuel and passenger transport; policing; customs enforcement; to search and rescue operations and support.
This class of vessel includes a variety of smallcraft including militarized pinnaces, shuttles, cutters, ship's boats, and all other non-jump capable spacecraft of less than 100 tons. The exception to this are system defense boats whose role is system defense. Often the names are used interchangeable, but they are often classified by role and size.
These craft are tertiary combatants at best and are not intended to operate near the battlefront for any length of time. They are armed for self defense at best, and typically must evade line combatants to survive. Their mission tasking is to support and enhance the missions of primary and secondary combatants.
Supraclass Roles
Combat Support Ships typically serve the following roles:
Capital Ship - Auxiliaries:
- Assault Tanker
- Auxiliary Merchant
- Bulk Ordnance Carrier
- Cargo Transport
- Combat Support Ship (Q) (Namesake)
- Degaussing Vessel
- Electronic Warfare Ship
- Fleet Auxiliary
- Fleet Logistics Ship
- Fleet Repair Vessel
- Fleet Replenishment Ship
- Fleet Replenishment Vessel
- Fleet Support Vessel
- Fleet Tanker
- Fleet Tender
- Fuel Tanker
- Light Transport
- Logistics Transport
- Logistics Vessel
- Military Specialty Ship
- Military Transport
- Modular Light Fleet Auxiliary
- Ordnance Carrier
- Ordnance Vessel
- Passenger Transport
- Repair Ship
- Repair/Salvage Ship
- Replenishment Ship
- Replenishment Vessel
- Resupply Vessel
- Resupply/Replenishment Vessel
- Rift Tanker
- Military Specialty Ship
- Store Ship
- Stores Ship
- Supply Ship
- Tanker
- Tanker/Replenishment Ship
- Transport Tanker
Smallcraft Auxiliaries - Utility Craft:
- Cutter (UQ)
- Fuel Shuttle (UQ)
- Gig (UQ)
- Lifeboat (UQ)
- Lighter (UQ)
- Pinnace (UQ)
- Refueling Lighter (UQ)
- Runabout (UQ)
- Shuttle (UQ)
- Utility Craft (UQ) (Namesake)
Supraclass Archetypal Roles
These vessels typically serve the following archetypal roles:
Q-class Combat Support Ship Supraclass Archetypes | |||
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Archetype | Type Code | Exemplar | Remarks |
TBD | Q | Type Q class Combat Support Ship | None |
TBD | UQ | Type UQ class Utility Craft | None |
NOTES: There is semantic overlap between many of the classes and codes. Some codes organize by mission or capability, others by size and tonnage, and yet others by other characteristics. |
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Selected Variant Types & Classes
Ship Summary List
Some of the most commonly used vessels in this role include:
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