Editing Scout Vessel

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[[Scout Vessel|S-class Scout Vessel]]s are a [[starship]] [[supraclass]] used to investigate uncontrolled astrographic areas.
* The grouping includes [[Scout/Courier]]s, [[Stealth Scout]]s, [[Military Scout]]s, [[Far Scout]]s, [[Fast Scout]]s, [[Fleet Scout]]s, [[Scout Tender]]s, and many others.
* All scout vessels are traditionally considered [[paramilitary ship]]s even if under specific civilian or military taskings.  
* Almost all scout vessels are constructed as [[ACS]] vessels between 100 to 2,499 [[ton]]s in displacement.
* 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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== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
Scout vessels serve a wide variety of missions from civilian to paramilitary to military taskings. The scout ship is traditionally considered a [[paramilitary vessel]]. Scouts often serve survey functions for a private or commercial entity, and military reconnaissance missions for military owners. The difference between such hulls is typically minimal. It's the mission that differs, not the craft. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Maksim-Smelchak]] }}

'''Scouts:''' Scouts are survey and exploration ships normally employed in the scout service. They are transferred to naval duty in time of war or when otherwise necessary. Many scout ships are couriers for the navy. {{Page cite|name= Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium |page=5}} 

=== Image Repository ===
This image repository contains a selection of scout vessel images:

'''[[Scout/Courier|Type SC Scout/Courier]]:'''
# A typical [[Type S class Scout/Courier]] [[scout ship]] preparing to enter [[jumpspace]]. <br> [[File:Jump-FTL-WH-Keith-CT-Starter-Trav-Pg-28 03-July-2018a.jpg|400px]]
# A [[Gibson class Scout/Courier|''Gibson class'']] with winglets and a top end [[sensor suite]]. <br> [[File: Trav-Gibson-class-Scout-BG 26-April-2019a.jpg|400px]]
# A [[Henrick Krueden class Scout/Courier|''Henrick Krueden'' class Scout/Courier]] in orbit around a [[gas giant]]. <br>[[File:Henrick-Krueden-class-Scout-Courier Ade-Stewart 31-Oct-2019.jpeg|400px]]
# A [[Marcus class Scout]] monitoring a rogue brown dwarf system. <br> [[File:Marcus Class Scout BD.jpg|400px|]]
# A [[Sulieman class Scout/Courier|''Type-S'']] in front of a [[nebula]]. <br> [[File: Type-S-class-Thomas-Peters-Challenge-28-Part-1 13-May-2019a.jpg|400px]]
# A [[Sulieman class Scout/Courier]] under spaceflight orbiting a yellow star. <br> [[File: Trav-Suleiman-Ian-Stead 27-Apr-2019c.jpg|400px]]
# An [[Inchworm class Scout/Courier]] landed upon a barren [[vacuum world]]. <br> [[File: Inchworm-class-Scout-Courier-Type-S-CT-01b-Leo-Knight 06-Aug-2019a.jpg|400px]]

'''[[Fleet Scout|Type SF Fleet Scout]]:'''
# [[Ship computer]] image of a stock [[Sixth Horizon class Fast Far Scout|''Vraktagh 6H''-class]] before being reengineered at [[Lunion (world)]]. <br> [[File: Sixth-Horizon-Scout-Pakkrat 07-June-2019a.png|400px]]

'''[[Military Scout|Type SG Gunned Scout /  Military Scout]]:'''
# Two [[Ninz class Scout]]s approaching target on a strike mission. <br> [[File: Ninz-Scout-CT-RESIZE-Keith-ACS-1 29-Oct-2019c.jpg|400px]]

'''[[Surveillance Scout|Type SI Surveillance Scout / Intelligence Vessel]]:'''
# A [[Lauritson class Picket Ship]] deploying [[MOLRASP class Sensor Drone]]s. <br> [[file: Lauritson-UPS-T20-B-McDev-Chall-76-pg-36 06-Oct-2019b.png|400px]]

'''[[Survey Scout|Type SL Survey Scout]]:'''
# The cobbled together but highly functional [[Telemon class Survey Scout]]. <br> [[File: Telemon-1248-Brian-Gibson 01-May-2019a.jpg|400px]]

'''[[Asteroid Scout|Type SP Asteroid Scout]]:'''
# No image yet available.

'''[[Aerodynamic Scout|Type SX Aerodynamic Scout]]:'''
# A [[Serpent class Scout/Courier]] landed on the surface of a [[planet]]. <br> [[File: Serpent-Class-Image 10-July-2019c.jpg|400px]]

=== Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine) ===
''Scout Vessel''s are not intended for combatant roles. The role of a scout is to reconnoiter star systems, deep space, and the enemy's movements, relaying vital intelligence back to combat fleets, thus enhancing their combat effectiveness. While many scout vessels are armed, such armament is mostly to discourage piracy, raiders, and other vessels from taking advantage of small, lightly armed vessels. Many scouts fulfill a variety of other roles including small team insertion, exploratory functions, communications functions, courier duties, and many other functions. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Maksim-Smelchak]] }}  

However, the basic tactic for a scout vessel is to avoid, evade, and escape combatant exchanges. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Maksim-Smelchak]] }}

=== Supraclass Roles ===
''Scout Vessel''s typically serve the following roles: <br>
''[[Largecraft]] & [[Bigcraft]]:''
{| class="wikitable sortable" 
!colspan="4"| A-class Tramp Supraclass Archetypes
|-
! Archetype
! Type Code
|-
| [[Aerodynamic Scout]] 
| (SX)
|-
| [[Armed Scout]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Armored Scout]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Asteroid Scout]] 
| (SP)
|-
| [[Attack Scout]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Combat Scout]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Command Scout]]
| (SI)
|-
| [[Covert Surveillance Scout]] 
| (SIS)
|-
| [[Deep Space Scout]] 
| (SF)
|-
| [[Early Warning Scout]] 
| (SI)
|-
| [[Espionage Vessel]] 
| (SIS)
|-
| [[Far Scout]] 
| (SF)
|-
| [[Fast Far Scout]] 
| (SF)
|-
| [[Fast Scout]] 
| (SF)
|-
| [[Fleet Scout]] 
| (SF)
|-
| [[Frontier Scout]] 
| (SF)
|-
| [[Gunned Scout]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Heavy Scout Vessel]] 
| (S)
|-
| [[Intelligence Vessel]] 
| (SI)
|-
| [[Intruder Scout]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Intruder Vessel]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Leader Scout]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Heavy Scout]] 
| (SH)
|-
| [[Light Scout]] 
| (SL)
|-
| [[Long-Range Scout]] 
| (SF)
|-
| [[Long Range Survey Ship]]
| (S)
|-
| [[Medium Scout]] 
| (SM)
|-
| [[Military Scout]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Observatory Ship]]
| (SI)
|-
| [[Picket Boat]]
| (SI)
|-
| [[Planetoid Scout]]
| (SP)
|-
| [[Reconnaissance Ship]] 
| (SI)
|-
| [[Scout/Courier]] 
| (SC)
|-
| [[Scout Cruiser]] 
| (SC)
|-
| [[Scout Leader]]
| (SI)
|-
| [[Scout Raider]] 
| (SR)
|-
| [[Scoutship]]
| (S)
|-
| [[Scout Tender]] 
| (XS)
|-
| [[Scout Vessel]] 
| (S) (Namesake)
|-
| [[Skirmisher Vessel]] 
| (SG)
|-
| [[Spy Ship]] 
| (SIS)
|-
| [[Stealth Scout]] 
| (SIS)
|-
| [[Super Heavy Scout]]
| (SS)
|-
| [[Surveillance Scout]] 
| (SI)
|-
| [[Surveillance Ship]] 
| (SI)
|-
| [[Surveillance Vessel]]
| (SI)
|-
| [[Unsupported Picket Ship]] 
| (SI)
|-
| [[Vargr Scout]] 
| (SV)
|-
| [[War Scout]] 
| (SG)
|-
|}

==== Size-Class Roles for Scout Vessels ====
# [[Utility Craft]] (U) (1 to 99 [[ton]]s) 
# [[Recon Smallcraft]] (UQS) (1 to 99 [[ton]]s)
# [[Light Scout]] (SL) (100 to 999 [[ton]]s)
# [[Medium Scout]] (SM) (1,000 to 1,499 [[ton]]s)
# [[Heavy Scout]] (SH) (1,500 to 2,499 [[ton]]s)
# [[Super Heavy Scout]] (SS) (2,500 or more [[ton]]s)
# [[Destroyer]] (D) (2,500 to 99,999 [[ton]]s)
# [[Capital Ship]] (Various) (100,000 or larger [[ton]]s)

==== Military Subcraft ====
Military [[subcraft]] (...both [[smallcraft]] and [[bigcraft]]) are carried by some of these [[vessel]]s:
# [[Battle Rider]] (BR)
# [[Combat Barge]] (WBG)
# [[Combat Transport Smallcraft]] (UI)
# [[Fighter]]s (F)
# [[Militarized Utility Craft]] (UQ)

=== Supraclass Archetypal Roles ===
These vessels typically serve the following archetypal roles:
{| class="wikitable sortable" 
!colspan="4"| S-class Scout Vessel Supraclass Archetypes
|-
! Archetype
! Type Code
! Exemplar
! Remarks
|-
| [[Scout Vessel]]
| S (Namesake)
| [[Serpent class Scout]]
| Generic scout vessels serve across a variety of riles focusing on reconnaissance, exploration, survey, and communications roles.
* S = Scout
|-
| [[Scout/Courier]]
| SC
| [[Sulieman class Scout/Courier]]
| Scout/Couriers focus on fulfilling intelligence and communications roles.
* S = Scout
* C = Courier
|-
| [[Fleet Scout]]
| SF
| [[Dewclaw class Fleet Scout]]
| Fleet Scouts tend to focus on endurance, speed, and range. They may travel many [[parsec]]s ahead of a fleet, convoy, or trade group confirming that the way is clear. Many serve frontier roles, fast roles, or far distance, endurance roles.  
* S = Scout
* F = Fleet, Far, Fast, Frontier, [[etc.]] 
|-
| [[Military Scout]]
| SG
| [[Hunter class Armored Scout]]
| Armed and armored scout meant for exclusively military duty, often acting in a light skirmisher / intruder / raider combatant role. Such vessels are too small to significantly threaten larger vessels, but they can harass effectively.
* S = Scout
* G = Gunned, Armored, Combat, Military, War, [[etc.]]
|-
| [[Surveillance Scout]] / [[Intelligence Vessel]]
| SI
| [[Gishiash class Stealth Scout]]
| ''Surveillance Ships'' generally are focused on monitoring less-friendly areas - border regions, semi-denied and occasionally denied territory. Their primary "weapon" is a comprehensive sensor and computer fit; their primary defense is stealth and passive defense. Surveillance scouts often serve intelligence roles, picket roles, and observation roles, monitoring certain parts of space or certain groups and places of interest.
* S = Scout
* I = Intelligence, Spy, [[Picket Boat]], Stealth, Surveillance, [[etc.]]
|-
| [[Asteroid Scout]]
| SP
| [[Pallad class Asteroid Scout]]
| It's far more common for larger vessels to make use of [[planetoid hull]]s than smaller ones. Asteroid scouts are an application where the [[planetoid hull]] can be very effective, hiding in plain sight and covertly observing the [[spaceway]]s.
* S = Scout
* P = Planetoid, Asteroid, Rock, [[etc.]]
|-
| [[Aerodynamic Scout]]
| SX
| [[Wind class Scout/Courier]]
| Aerodynamic scouts are technically [[spaceplane]]s. They are specialized to act as capable [[aircraft]] in addition to their roles as [[spacecraft]] or [[starcraft]]. They are optimized to take closer looks at atmospheric worlds than many other kinds of scout vessels.
* S = Scout
* X = Exosphere, Atmosphere, Planetary, Spaceplane, [[etc.]]
|-
!colspan="4"| ''NOTES:'' There is semantic overlap between many of the classes and codes. Some codes organize by mission or capability, others by size and [[ton]]nage, and yet others by other characteristics.
|-
|}

== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
Several thousand years ago, interstellar pioneers had hoped to break the [[FTL]] barrier to communications technology. Tachyons, mesons, [[jumpspace]] were all explored hoping to create [[Charted Space]]'s first [[ansible]]. It never happened... {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Maksim-Smelchak]] }} 

In an environment where communication only moves at the pace of travel, scout vessels remain incredibly important. They are typically light, fast, and practically disposable ships. They can monitor, reconnoiter, explore, survey, carry couriers, and otherwise maintain intelligence and observation networks. Vessels very flexibly serve across many mission roles from communications to combat operations, but ...the focus of most scouts is the collection and dissemination of intelligence data. {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Maksim-Smelchak]] }} 

=== Selected Variant Types & Classes ===
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=== Ship Summary List ===
Some of the most commonly used [[vessel]]s in this role or these roles include:
{{Ship summary list|name= Scout Vessel |tdes= S}}
{{Ship summary list|name= Scout/Courier |tdes= SC}}
{{Ship summary list|name= Fleet Scout |tdes= SF}}
{{Ship summary list|name= Military Scout |tdes= SG}}
{{Ship summary list|name= Surveillance / Intelligence Scout |tdes= SI}} 
{{Ship summary list|name= Covert Stealth Scout |tdes= SIS}}
{{Ship summary list|name= Asteroid Scout |tdes= SP}}
{{Ship summary list|name= Superheavy Scout |tdes= SS}}
{{Ship summary list|name= Vargr Scout |tdes= SV}}
{{Ship summary list|name= Aerodynamic Scout |tdes= SX}}
{{Ship summary list|name= Recon Smallcraft |tdes= UQS}}

== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==
{{Intermediate}}
{{Detail}}
{{Sources
|S1= This article is an amalgamation of many different materials published since 1977.
|S2= {{Ludography cite|name= Scout Ships |page= TBD}}
|S3= {{Ludography cite|name= Merchants and Cruisers |page= 57-58}}
|S4= [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
|S5= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]] 
}}


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