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[[Expedition Ship|Type-K Expedition Ship]]s are tasked to go on extended trips whether for recreation (safari), exploration (colonization), diplomacy ([[first contact]]), or other tasks requiring purposeful travelling across vast distances.  
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[[Expedition Ship|Type-K Expedition Ship]]s are tasked to go on extended trips whether for recreation ([[safari]] or [[tourism]]), exploration ([[colonization]]), diplomacy ([[first contact]]), or other tasks requiring purposeful travelling across vast distances.  
 
* The [[Supraclass]] designation is also known as [[Ship Mission]], [[Ship Mission Code]], Mission, or [[Ship Hull Designation]].  
 
* The [[Supraclass]] designation is also known as [[Ship Mission]], [[Ship Mission Code]], Mission, or [[Ship Hull Designation]].  
 
* It is a [[starship]] [[supraclass]].
 
* It is a [[starship]] [[supraclass]].
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Expedition ships are built around the support of their main purpose and have limited uses outside of it. The designs intended for each archetypal role are very different. For example, a [[Safari Ship]] makes a poor [[Colony Ship]], and an even worse [[warship]]. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Matthew Kerwin]] }}
 
Expedition ships are built around the support of their main purpose and have limited uses outside of it. The designs intended for each archetypal role are very different. For example, a [[Safari Ship]] makes a poor [[Colony Ship]], and an even worse [[warship]]. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Matthew Kerwin]] }}
  
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Ships intended for recreational expeditions (...like the [[Safari Ship]]), are often designed with luxurious accommodations. Those that can afford to charter such a vessel expect to travel in style. There will be well-appointed lounges and facilities to handle and display trophies, as well as [[vehicle]]s to explore the wilderness. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Matthew Kerwin]] }}
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Ships intended for recreational expeditions (...like the [[Safari Ship]]), are often designed with luxurious accommodations. Those that can afford to charter such a vessel expect to travel in style. There will be well-appointed lounges and [[Capture Tank|facilities to handle and display trophies]], as well as [[vehicle]]s to explore the wilderness. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Matthew Kerwin]] }}
  
 
Diplomatic vessels also have lavishly appointed areas to entertain distinguished guests. They need to be able to carry a political envoy and several staff members, and they need to be able to support them until an embassy is established. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Matthew Kerwin]] }}
 
Diplomatic vessels also have lavishly appointed areas to entertain distinguished guests. They need to be able to carry a political envoy and several staff members, and they need to be able to support them until an embassy is established. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Matthew Kerwin]] }}
  
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In contrast to this, ships used for colonial expeditions will often be constructed with more economically furnished, though even more spacious, living quarters. Civilizations without access to jump drive, including the [[Loeskalth]], the [[Hhkar]], and pre-jump [[Vilani]] and [[Terrans]] ([[European Space Agency Long-range Colony Mission]]), built long-duration sublight colony ships which would also fit the type K [[supraclass]]. Within the [[Imperium]], individual high population worlds frequently send out colonies to underutilized worlds in their own region. For this purpose, they often use passenger [[liner]]s and [[freighter]]s that have been adapted and repurposed into Expedition Ships. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Matthew Kerwin]] }}
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In contrast to this, ships used for colonial expeditions will often be constructed with more economically furnished, though even more spacious, living quarters. Civilizations without access to jump drive, including the [[Loeskalth]], the [[Hhkar]], and pre-jump [[Vilani]] and [[Terrans]] ([[European Space Agency Long-range Colony Mission]]), built long-duration sublight colony ships which would also fit the type K [[supraclass]]. Within the [[Imperium]], individual high population worlds frequently send out [[colonies]] to underutilized worlds in their own region. For this purpose, they often use [[passenger liner]]s and [[freighter]]s that have been adapted and repurposed into Expedition Ships. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Matthew Kerwin]] }}
  
 
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''Expedition Ship''s typically serve the following roles: <br>
 
''Expedition Ship''s typically serve the following roles: <br>
 
''[[Largecraft]] & [[Bigcraft]]:''
 
''[[Largecraft]] & [[Bigcraft]]:''
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# [[Colony Ship]] (KC)
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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# [[Consular Corvette]] (KD)
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!colspan="4"| T-class Transport & Tanker Supraclass Archetypes
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# [[Consular Ship]] (KD)
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|-
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# [[Diplomacy Ship]] (KD)
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! Archetype
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# [[Diplomat's Ship]] (KD)
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! Type Code
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# [[Embassy Ship]] (KD)
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|-
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# [[Expedition Ship]] (K) (Namesake)
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| [[Colony Ship]]
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# [[Expedition Vessel]] (K)
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| (KC)
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# [[Expeditionary Colony Ship]] (KC)
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|-
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# [[Expeditionary Diplomacy Ship]] (KD)
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| [[Consular Corvette]]
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# [[Expeditionary Smallcraft]] (UK)
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| (KD)
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# [[Exploratory Cruiser]] (K)
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|-
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# [[First Contact Ship]] (KD)
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| [[Consular Ship]]
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# [[Generation Ship]] (KCG)
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| (KD)
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# [[Hunter's Ship]] (KH)
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|-
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# [[Safari Ship]] (KH)
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| [[Diplomacy Ship]]
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# [[Safari Smallcraft]] (UK)
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| (KD)
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# [[Settlement Ship]] (KC)
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|-
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# [[Settlement Transport]] (KC)
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| [[Diplomat's Ship]]
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# [[Sleeper Ship]] (KCS)
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| (KD)
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# [[Space Ark]] (KC)
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|-
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# [[Worldship]] (KC)
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| [[Embassy Ship]]
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| (KD)
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|-
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| [[Emmisary Ship]]
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| (KD)
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|-
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| [[Expedition Ship]]
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| (K) (Namesake)
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|-
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| [[Expedition Vessel]]
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| (K)
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|-
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| [[Expeditionary Colony Ship]]
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| (KC)
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|-
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| [[Expeditionary Diplomacy Ship]]
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| (KD)
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|-
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| [[Exploratory Cruiser]]
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| (K)
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|-
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| [[First Contact Ship]]
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| (KD)
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|-
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| [[Generation Ship]]
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| (KCG)
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|-
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| [[Hunter's Ship]]
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| (KH)
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|-
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| [[Safari Ship]]
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| (KH)
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|-
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| [[Settlement Ship]]
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| (KC)
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|-
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| [[Settlement Transport]]
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| (KC)
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|-
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| [[Sleeper Ship]]
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| (KCS)
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|-
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| [[Space Ark]]
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| (KC)
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|-
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| [[Worldship]]
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| (KC)
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|-
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|}
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''[[Smallcraft]]:''
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!colspan="4"| T-class Transport & Tanker Supraclass Archetypes
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|-
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! Archetype
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! Type Code
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|-
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| [[Expeditionary Smallcraft]]
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| (UK)
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|-
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| [[Hunter's Craft]]
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| (UK)
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|-
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| [[Hunter's Launch]]
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| (UK)
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|-
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| [[Safari Smallcraft]]
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| (UK)
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|-
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|}
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==== Size-Class Roles for Expedition Vessels ====
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# [[Expeditionary Smallcraft]] (UK) (1 to 99 [[ton]]s)
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# [[Very Light Expedition Ship]] (KVL) (100 to 2,499 [[ton]]s)
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# [[Light Expedition Ship]] (KL) (2,500 to 99,999 [[ton]]s)
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# [[Medium Expedition Ship]] (KM) (100,000 to 249,999 [[ton]]s)
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# [[Heavy Expedition Ship]] (KH) (250,000 to 499,999 [[ton]]s)
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# [[Superheavy Expedition Ship]] (KS) (500,000 to 999,999 [[ton]]s)
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# [[Ultraheavy Expedition Ship]] (KU) (1,000,000 or more [[ton]]s)
  
 
==== Civilian Subcraft ====
 
==== Civilian Subcraft ====
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| UK
 
| UK
 
| [[Denuli class Hunting Launch]]
 
| [[Denuli class Hunting Launch]]
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| ''Expeditionary smallcraft'' are specialized utility craft designed to support the operations of [[expedition ship]]s. They can range from specialized colony support craft, to stealthy [[first contact]] craft designed to unobtrusively observe newly discovered sophont societies, to hunting launches for [[safari ship]]s, and a variety of other craft. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Maksim-Smelchak]] }}  
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| ''Expeditionary smallcraft'' are specialized utility craft designed to support the operations of [[expedition ship]]s. They can range from specialized colony support craft, to stealthy [[first contact]] craft designed to unobtrusively observe newly discovered sophont societies, to [[hunting launch]]es for [[safari ship]]s, and a variety of other craft. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Maksim-Smelchak]] }}  
 
* U = Utility
 
* U = Utility
 
* K = Kiswahili (Name of Terran language used in an area where many significant safari expeditions occurred. Also known as [[Swahili]])
 
* K = Kiswahili (Name of Terran language used in an area where many significant safari expeditions occurred. Also known as [[Swahili]])
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=== Selected Variant Types & Classes ===
 
=== Selected Variant Types & Classes ===
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''[[Civilian Ship]] - [[Safari|Safari Ship]]:''
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''[[Civilian Ship]] - [[Largecraft]] - [[Expedition Ship]]:'' <br>
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# [[Type K class Safari Ship]]
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[[Type K class Expedition Ship]]
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# [[Type KC class Colony Ship]]
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## [[C-Jammer class Settlement Transport]]
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## [[Jump Conveyor class Settlement Ship]]
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## [[Vrad class Generation Ship]]
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## [[Xeng Kirr class Space Ark]]
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# [[Type KD class Diplomacy Ship]]
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## [[Covenant class Consular Ship]]
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## [[Dranzhrin class Consular Corvette]]
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## [[Iigicih class Embassy Ship]]
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## [[Type HE class Embassy Ship]]
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# [[Type KH class Safari Ship]] AKA [[Type K class Safari Ship]]
 
## [[Animal class Free Trader]] {{Page cite|name= Safari Ship |page= 18|article= Safari Ship}}
 
## [[Animal class Free Trader]] {{Page cite|name= Safari Ship |page= 18|article= Safari Ship}}
 
## [[Animal class Liner]] {{Page cite|name= Safari Ship |page= 18|article= Safari Ship}}
 
## [[Animal class Liner]] {{Page cite|name= Safari Ship |page= 18|article= Safari Ship}}
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## [[Leaping Snowcat class Safari Ship]] {{Page cite|name= Safari Ship |page= 25|article= Safari Ship}}
 
## [[Leaping Snowcat class Safari Ship]] {{Page cite|name= Safari Ship |page= 25|article= Safari Ship}}
 
## [[Safari-234 class Touring Ship]] {{Page cite|name= Simba Safari |page= 4 }}
 
## [[Safari-234 class Touring Ship]] {{Page cite|name= Simba Safari |page= 4 }}
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# [[Type KG class Safari Ship]]
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## [[Type KG class Safari Ship]]
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## [[Excursion class Safari Ship]]
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### [[Excursion class Safari Ship]]
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# [[Type UK class Expeditionary Smallcraft]]
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## [[Denuli class Hunting Launch]]
  
 
=== Ship Summary List ===
 
=== Ship Summary List ===
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{{Ship summary list|name= Expedition Ship |tdes=K}}
 
{{Ship summary list|name= Expedition Ship |tdes=K}}
 
{{Ship summary list|name= Colony Ship |tdes= KC}}
 
{{Ship summary list|name= Colony Ship |tdes= KC}}
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{{Ship summary list|name= Colony Generation Ship |tdes= KCG}}
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{{Ship summary list|name= Colony Sleeper Ship |tdes= KCS}}
 
{{Ship summary list|name= Diplomacy Ship |tdes= KD}}
 
{{Ship summary list|name= Diplomacy Ship |tdes= KD}}
 
{{Ship summary list|name= Safari Ship |tdes= KH}}
 
{{Ship summary list|name= Safari Ship |tdes= KH}}

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Transport 		G-
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Type-K Expedition Ships are tasked to go on extended trips whether for recreation (safari or tourism), exploration (colonization), diplomacy (first contact), or other tasks requiring purposeful travelling across vast distances.

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    • Description (Specifications)

    Expedition ships are built around the support of their main purpose and have limited uses outside of it. The designs intended for each archetypal role are very different. For example, a Safari Ship makes a poor Colony Ship, and an even worse warship. [1]

    Ships intended for recreational expeditions (...like the Safari Ship), are often designed with luxurious accommodations. Those that can afford to charter such a vessel expect to travel in style. There will be well-appointed lounges and facilities to handle and display trophies, as well as vehicles to explore the wilderness. [2]

    Diplomatic vessels also have lavishly appointed areas to entertain distinguished guests. They need to be able to carry a political envoy and several staff members, and they need to be able to support them until an embassy is established. [3]

    In contrast to this, ships used for colonial expeditions will often be constructed with more economically furnished, though even more spacious, living quarters. Civilizations without access to jump drive, including the Loeskalth, the Hhkar, and pre-jump Vilani and Terrans (European Space Agency Long-range Colony Mission), built long-duration sublight colony ships which would also fit the type K supraclass. Within the Imperium, individual high population worlds frequently send out colonies to underutilized worlds in their own region. For this purpose, they often use passenger liners and freighters that have been adapted and repurposed into Expedition Ships. [4]

    Image Repository

    1. A brochure image of an Animal class Safari Ship deploying a Denuli class Hunting Launch.
      Safari-Ship-WH-Keith-MT-Imp-Encyclo-Pg-37 03-July-2018a.jpg

    Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)

    Like most civilian vessels, Expedition Ships are not designed for combat and should run whenever possible when facing marauders or pirate vessels. Many are equipped with light armament and defensive suites nevertheless.

    Supraclass Roles

    Expedition Ships typically serve the following roles:
    Largecraft & Bigcraft:

    T-class Transport & Tanker Supraclass Archetypes
    Archetype Type Code
    Colony Ship (KC)
    Consular Corvette (KD)
    Consular Ship (KD)
    Diplomacy Ship (KD)
    Diplomat's Ship (KD)
    Embassy Ship (KD)
    Emmisary Ship (KD)
    Expedition Ship (K) (Namesake)
    Expedition Vessel (K)
    Expeditionary Colony Ship (KC)
    Expeditionary Diplomacy Ship (KD)
    Exploratory Cruiser (K)
    First Contact Ship (KD)
    Generation Ship (KCG)
    Hunter's Ship (KH)
    Safari Ship (KH)
    Settlement Ship (KC)
    Settlement Transport (KC)
    Sleeper Ship (KCS)
    Space Ark (KC)
    Worldship (KC)

    Smallcraft:

    T-class Transport & Tanker Supraclass Archetypes
    Archetype Type Code
    Expeditionary Smallcraft (UK)
    Hunter's Craft (UK)
    Hunter's Launch (UK)
    Safari Smallcraft (UK)

    Size-Class Roles for Expedition Vessels

    1. Expeditionary Smallcraft (UK) (1 to 99 tons)
    2. Very Light Expedition Ship (KVL) (100 to 2,499 tons)
    3. Light Expedition Ship (KL) (2,500 to 99,999 tons)
    4. Medium Expedition Ship (KM) (100,000 to 249,999 tons)
    5. Heavy Expedition Ship (KH) (250,000 to 499,999 tons)
    6. Superheavy Expedition Ship (KS) (500,000 to 999,999 tons)
    7. Ultraheavy Expedition Ship (KU) (1,000,000 or more tons)

    Civilian Subcraft

    Civilian subcraft (...both smallcraft and bigcraft) are carried by some of these vessels:

    1. Barge (WB)
    2. Utility Craft (U)

    Supraclass Archetypal Roles

    These vessels typically serve the following archetypal roles:

    K-class Expedition Ship Supraclass Archetypes
    Archetype Type Code/s Exemplar Remarks
    Expedition Ship K Leaping Snowcat class Safari Ship Type-K Expedition Ships are tasked to go on extended trips whether for recreation (safari), exploration (colonization), diplomacy (first contact), or other tasks requiring purposeful travelling across vast distances. [5]
    • K = Kiswahili (Name of Terran language used in an area where many significant safari expeditions occurred. Also known as Swahili)
    Colony Ship KC C-Jammer class Settlement Transport Colony ships, settlement transports, star arks, and the like bring a population of colonists across great distances to establish new mainworlds. Such vessels are often quite large, needing to bring all the necessities of life to the new world. [6]
    • C = Colony
    Diplomacy Ship KD Type HE class Embassy Ship Consular vessels, embassy ships, diplomat's vessels, first contact observers, and the like travel great distances to make diplomatic contact with new sophont societies, polities, and civilizations. Highly trained diplomats and the like must often safeguard sensitive information and sensitive communications requiring self-destruct devices in case of capture, and require secure communications equipment to safeguard state secrets. [7]
    • D = Diplomacy
    Safari Ship KH Animal class Safari Ship Safari ships are entertainments vessels that go on Safari. They bring privileged tourists great distances to observe and often hunt wild, exotic beasts. While most often used for the hunting of exotic game, some use it for the observation of, photographing of, hiking, and sight-seeing in exotic locales, a form of tourism. [8]
    • H = Hunter
    Expeditionary Smallcraft UK Denuli class Hunting Launch Expeditionary smallcraft are specialized utility craft designed to support the operations of expedition ships. They can range from specialized colony support craft, to stealthy first contact craft designed to unobtrusively observe newly discovered sophont societies, to hunting launches for safari ships, and a variety of other craft. [9]
    • U = Utility
    • K = Kiswahili (Name of Terran language used in an area where many significant safari expeditions occurred. Also known as Swahili)
    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.

    History & Background (Dossier)

    In around -50,000 the Hhkar launched purpose-built sublight Expedition Ships of an unknown type in order to colonize other worlds. The Vilani began launching sublight expeditions to nearby stars in -9394. In -4200 the Loeskalth launched a single asteroid ship on an expedition across the Great Rift to escape the Vilani Consolidation Wars. The Terrans launched multiple such colony missions in -2573, one to Prometheus, and others to the Islands Clusters in the Great Rift. There are likely numerous other examples of historical use of colony ships. [10]

    The Zhodani have built a variety of different ship designs to participate in their Core Expeditions starting in -4006. Each of these has been specialized as a type of Expedition Ship, and they vary from scouts to convoyed transports and tankers to individual ships designed to be self-sufficient as they branch off of the main expedition and rejoin it later. [11]

    Selected Variant Types & Classes

    Civilian Ship - Largecraft - Expedition Ship:
    Type K class Expedition Ship

    1. Type KC class Colony Ship
      1. C-Jammer class Settlement Transport
      2. Jump Conveyor class Settlement Ship
      3. Vrad class Generation Ship
      4. Xeng Kirr class Space Ark
    2. Type KD class Diplomacy Ship
      1. Covenant class Consular Ship
      2. Dranzhrin class Consular Corvette
      3. Iigicih class Embassy Ship
      4. Type HE class Embassy Ship
    3. Type KH class Safari Ship AKA Type K class Safari Ship
      1. Animal class Free Trader [12]
      2. Animal class Liner [13]
      3. Animal class Safari Ship [14]
      4. Animal class Survey Vessel [15]
      5. Animal class Yacht [16]
      6. Nimrod class Safari Ship
      7. Leaping Snowcat class Safari Ship [17]
      8. Safari-234 class Touring Ship [18]
      9. Type KG class Safari Ship
        1. Excursion class Safari Ship
    4. Type UK class Expeditionary Smallcraft
      1. Denuli class Hunting Launch

    Ship Summary List

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

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    1. ↑ Information provided to the library by Matthew Kerwin
    2. ↑ Information provided to the library by Matthew Kerwin
    3. ↑ Information provided to the library by Matthew Kerwin
    4. ↑ Information provided to the library by Matthew Kerwin
    5. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
    6. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
    7. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
    8. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
    9. ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
    10. ↑ Information provided to the library by Matthew Kerwin
    11. ↑ Information provided to the library by Matthew Kerwin
    12. ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 18.
    13. ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 18.
    14. ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 17-31.
    15. ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 18.
    16. ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 18.
    17. ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 25.
    18. ↑ Dave Sering. Simba Safari (Judges Guild, 1981), 4.
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