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[[Fleet Tanker]]s are a specialized [[tanker]] type used by large fleets of ships, civilian or [[military ship]] [[fleet]]s. 
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* It is a [[starship]] [[supraclass]].
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* The [[Supraclass]] designation is also known as [[Ship Mission]], [[Ship Mission Code]], Mission, or [[Ship Hull Designation]].
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Please refer to the following [[AAB]] [[Library Data]] for more information: <br>
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'''[[Starship]]:'''
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* [[Ship Classification|Starship User Types]]
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** [[Civilian Ship]]
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** [[Paramilitary Ship]]
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** [[Military Ship]]
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* [[Ship Classification|Ships by Function]]
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** [[Bigcraft]]
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** [[Boat]]
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** [[Non-starship]]
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** [[Smallcraft]]
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** [[Spaceship]]
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** [[Starship]]
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** [[Subcraft]]
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** [[Warship]]
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* [[Ship Classification|Advanced Ship Classification]]s
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** [[Ship Mission Code]] / [[Supraclass]]
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** [[Ship Type Code]] / [[Superclass]]
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** [[Ship Class Code]] / [[Class]]
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** Model ([[TL]])
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** Bloc (Lot)
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* [[Ship Classification|Basic Ship Classifications]]
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** [[Adventure Class Ship]]
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** [[Battle Class Ship]]
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** [[Fleet Class Ship]]
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** [[Size-Role Classification]]
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** [[QSP]]
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** [[USP]]
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** [[World Class Ship]]
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* [[Drive|Speed of Travel]]
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** [[FTL]]
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** [[NAFAL]] ([[STL]])
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== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
 
The advantages of fuel on hand are tactical and strategic. One can continue activities where there is no fuel, and bridge gaps between areas of of operation where one could normally not go, allowing one to avoid obstacles and do an end run around heavily defended bottleneck systems, a strategic advantage. Also, one can operate in a theater without approaching heavily defended fuel resources, while one does something interesting about the situation, which is a tactical advantage. Civilians can bridge gaps in the operational range of merchants extending their effective operation area past natural obstacles.
 
The advantages of fuel on hand are tactical and strategic. One can continue activities where there is no fuel, and bridge gaps between areas of of operation where one could normally not go, allowing one to avoid obstacles and do an end run around heavily defended bottleneck systems, a strategic advantage. Also, one can operate in a theater without approaching heavily defended fuel resources, while one does something interesting about the situation, which is a tactical advantage. Civilians can bridge gaps in the operational range of merchants extending their effective operation area past natural obstacles.
  
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Tankers dedicate as much resource as possible to fuel tankage, sacrificing anything possible to achieve this. They are slow, nearly undermanned, unarmored, unarmed. They are a big ball of Liquid Hydrogen in a bag with a [[jump drive]] that let's them keep up with the fleet. Usually, they are accompanied with a [[hidiver]] to go GET the fuel, and refine it as gathered to bring it back as pure fuel to store on the tanker- not even a refiner is permitted to detract from fuel carried on the tanker. Its mission is ideally, to present to the fleet on demand its weight in fuel, or as close to that percentage as possible when the need is at hand.
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=== Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine) ===
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No information yet available.
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=== Supraclass Roles ===
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[[Fleet Tanker]]s typically serve the following roles:
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# [[Supply Ship]]
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# [[Tanker]]
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## [[Fleet Tanker]]
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=== Supraclass Archtypes ===
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# Tankers dedicate as much resource as possible to fuel tankage, sacrificing anything possible to achieve this. They are slow, nearly undermanned, unarmored, unarmed. They are a big ball of Liquid Hydrogen in a bag with a [[jump drive]] that let's them keep up with the fleet. Usually, they are accompanied with a [[hidiver]] to go GET the fuel, and refine it as gathered to bring it back as pure fuel to store on the tanker- not even a refiner is permitted to detract from fuel carried on the tanker. Its mission is ideally, to present to the fleet on demand its weight in fuel, or as close to that percentage as possible when the need is at hand.
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# What the fleet tanker is for fuel, the [[supply ship]] is for everything else- munitions, CHOW, spare parts, hull armor and pressure hull components, spare computers, cabling, life support consumables (other than LOX or LNIT which are carried on special purpose tankers), all this and more are carried on supply ships, giving the fleet extended independent supply times and ranges to cut itself free from logistical supply lines and points, to go and peruse its mission.
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== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
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No information yet available.
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=== Selected Variant Types & Classes ===
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''[[Auxiliary Vessel]]:''
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# [[Type TBD class Tanker]]
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## [[TBD class Tanker]]
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=== Ship Summary List ===
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No information yet available.
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=== Image Repository ===
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No information yet available.
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== References & Contributors (Sources) ==
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{{Intermediate}}
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{{Detail}}
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{{Sources
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|S1= [[TBD]]
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|S2= [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
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|S3= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]
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What the fleet tanker is for fuel, the [[supply ship]] is for everything else- munitions, CHOW, spare parts, hull armor and pressure hull components, spare computers, cabling, life support consumables (other than LOX or LNIT which are carried on special purpose tankers), all this and more are carried on supply ships, giving the fleet extended independent supply times and ranges to cut itself free from logistical supply lines and points, to go and peruse its mission.
 
  
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Fleet Tankers are a specialized tanker type used by large fleets of ships, civilian or military ship fleets.

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

Description (Specifications)[edit]

The advantages of fuel on hand are tactical and strategic. One can continue activities where there is no fuel, and bridge gaps between areas of of operation where one could normally not go, allowing one to avoid obstacles and do an end run around heavily defended bottleneck systems, a strategic advantage. Also, one can operate in a theater without approaching heavily defended fuel resources, while one does something interesting about the situation, which is a tactical advantage. Civilians can bridge gaps in the operational range of merchants extending their effective operation area past natural obstacles.

Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)[edit]

No information yet available.

Supraclass Roles[edit]

Fleet Tankers typically serve the following roles:

  1. Supply Ship
  2. Tanker
    1. Fleet Tanker

Supraclass Archtypes[edit]

  1. Tankers dedicate as much resource as possible to fuel tankage, sacrificing anything possible to achieve this. They are slow, nearly undermanned, unarmored, unarmed. They are a big ball of Liquid Hydrogen in a bag with a jump drive that let's them keep up with the fleet. Usually, they are accompanied with a hidiver to go GET the fuel, and refine it as gathered to bring it back as pure fuel to store on the tanker- not even a refiner is permitted to detract from fuel carried on the tanker. Its mission is ideally, to present to the fleet on demand its weight in fuel, or as close to that percentage as possible when the need is at hand.
  2. What the fleet tanker is for fuel, the supply ship is for everything else- munitions, CHOW, spare parts, hull armor and pressure hull components, spare computers, cabling, life support consumables (other than LOX or LNIT which are carried on special purpose tankers), all this and more are carried on supply ships, giving the fleet extended independent supply times and ranges to cut itself free from logistical supply lines and points, to go and peruse its mission.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes[edit]

Auxiliary Vessel:

  1. Type TBD class Tanker
    1. TBD class Tanker

Ship Summary List[edit]

No information yet available.

Image Repository[edit]

No information yet available.

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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