Combat Support Ship

Line Combatants (Primary - Capital)				Escort Combatants (Secondary - Subcapital)				Military Auxiliary (Tertiary)
B- Battleship	C- Cruiser	O- Ortillery	V- Carrier	D- Destroyer	E- Escort	F- Fighter	H- Defense/Security	I- Combat Transport	Q- Combat Support	S- Scout	U- Utility	X- Commo	Z- Special

Mercantile Commercial Ships (Trade & Profit)				Non-Mercantile Commercial Ships (Industry & Profit)					Non-Commercial Ships (Nonprofit)			System Craft (Intrastellar)
A- Tramp	M- Freighter	R- Liner	T- Transport	G- Industrial	J- Prospector	K- Expedition	P- Corsair	U- Utility	L- Science	N- Medical	Y- Private	WB- Barge	WA- Satellite	WO- Space Station

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.

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Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:

• Starship User Types
  • Civilian Ship
  • Military Ship
  • Non-Commercial Vessel
  • Paramilitary Ship

• Advanced Ship Classifications
  • Ship Mission Code / Supraclass
  • Ship Type Code / Superclass
  • Ship Class Code / Class
  • Model (TL)
  • Bloc (Lot)

• Basic Ship Classifications
  • Adventure Class Ship
  • Battle Class Ship
  • Capital Ship
  • Fleet Class Ship
  • Size-Role Classification
  • Subcapital Ship
  • QSP
  • USP
  • World Class Ship

• Ships by Function
  • Bigcraft
  • Boat
  • Capital Ship
  • Largecraft
  • Non-starship
  • Smallcraft
  • Spaceplane
  • Spaceship
  • Starship
  • Subcapital Ship
  • Subcraft
  • System Craft
  • Warship

Speed of Travel

• Astronomical Unit (AU)
• FTL
• Light Speed (c)
• Light-week (lw)
• Light-year (ly)
• NAFAL (STL)
• Parsec (pc)

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Description (Specifications)

A Military Auxiliary or Auxiliaries are Combat Support Ships:

1. Capital Ships acting in a combat support role to warships.
2. Smallcraft of various types that primarily perform utility functions as Utility Craft.
3. 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 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.

Supraclass Roles

Combat Support Ships typically serve the following roles:

Capital Ship Auxiliaries:

1. Assault Tanker
2. Cargo Transport
3. Degaussing Vessel
4. Electronic Warfare Ship
5. Fleet Auxiliary
6. Fleet Repair Vessel
7. Fleet Replenishment Ship
8. Fleet Support Vessel
9. Fleet Tanker
10. Fuel Tanker
11. Light Transport
12. Logistics Transport
13. Logistics Vessel
14. Military Specialty Ship
15. Military Transport
16. Modular Light Fleet Auxiliary
17. Ordnance Carrier
18. Ordnance Vessel
19. Passenger Transport
20. Repair Ship
21. Repair/Salvage Ship
22. Replenishment Ship
23. Resupply Vessel
24. Resupply/Replenishment Vessel
25. Rift Tanker
26. Salvage Ship
27. Military Specialty Ship
28. Store Ship
29. Stores Ship
30. Supply Ship
31. Tanker
32. Tanker/Replenishment Ship
33. Transport Tanker

Smallcraft Auxiliaries = Utility Craft:

1. Cutter
2. Fuel Shuttle
3. Gig
4. Lifeboat
5. Lighter
6. Pinnace
7. Refueling Lighter
8. Runabout
9. Shuttle
10. Utility Craft

Supraclass Archtypes

Q-class Combat Support Ship Supraclass Archtypes
Archtype	Type Code	TL Range	Remarks
?	?	?	None

History & Background (Dossier)

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Selected Variant Types & Classes

Merchant Ship:

1. Type A class Free Trader
   1. Beowulf class Free Trader

Ship Summary List

Some of the most commonly used vessels in this role include:

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