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− | 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 {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Maksim-Smelchak]] }} | + | Scout vessels serve a wide variety of missions from civilian to paramilitary to military taskings.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 {{Unpublished cite|author= [[Maksim-Smelchak]] }} |
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Revision as of 17:14, 16 September 2019
S-class Scout Vessels are a starship supraclass used to investigate uncontrolled astrographic areas.
- The grouping includes Scout/Couriers, Stealth Scouts, Military Scouts, Far Scouts, Fast Scouts, Fleet Scouts, Scout Tenders, and many others.
- Almost all scout vessels are constructed as ACS vessels between 100 to 2,499 tons in displacement.
- 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)
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. [1]
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. [2]
Image Repository
This image repository contains a selection of scout vessel images:
- A typical Type S class Scout/Courier scout ship preparing to enter jumpspace.
- A Gibson class with winglets and a top end sensor suite.
- A Type-S in front of a nebula.
- A Serpent class Scout/Courier landed on the surface of a planet.
- A Sulieman class Scout/Courier under spaceflight orbiting a yellow star.
- Ship computer image of a stock Vraktagh 6H-class before being reengineered at Lunion (world).
Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)
Scout Vessels 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. [3]
However, the basic tactic for a scout vessel is to avoid, evade, and escape combatant exchanges. [4]
Supraclass Roles
Scout Vessels typically serve the following roles:
Largecraft & Bigcraft:
A-class Tramp Supraclass Archetypes | |||
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Archetype | Type Code | ||
Aerodynamic Scout | (SX) | ||
Armed Scout | (SG) | ||
Armored Scout | (SG) | ||
Asteroid Scout | (SP) | ||
Attack Scout | (SG) | ||
Combat Scout | (SG) | ||
Covert Surveillance Scout | (SIS) | ||
Deep Space Scout | (SF) | ||
Early Warning Scout | (SI) | ||
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 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) | ||
Vargr Scout | (SV) | ||
War Scout | (SG) |
Size-Class Roles for Scout Vessels
- Utility Craft (U) (1 to 99 tons)
- Recon Smallcraft (UQS) (1 to 99 tons)
- Light Scout (SL) (100 to 999 tons)
- Medium Scout (SM) (1,000 to 1,499 tons)
- Heavy Scout (SH) (1,500 to 2,499 tons)
- Super Heavy Scout (SS) (2,500 or more tons)
- Destroyer (D) (2,500 to 99,999 tons)
- Capital Ship (Various) (100,000 or larger tons)
Military Subcraft
Military subcraft (...both smallcraft and bigcraft) are carried by some of these vessels:
- Battle Rider (BR)
- Combat Barge (WBG)
- Combat Transport Smallcraft (UI)
- Fighters (F)
- Militarized Utility Craft (UQ)
Supraclass Archetypal Roles
These vessels typically serve the following archetypal roles:
S-class Scout Vessel Supraclass Archetypes | |||
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Archetype | Type Code | Exemplar | Remarks |
Scout Vessel | S (Namesake) | Serpent class Scout | Generic scout vessels serve across a variety of riles focusing on reconnaissance, survey, and communications roles.
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Scout/Courier | SC | Sulieman class Scout/Courier | Scout/Couriers focus on fulfilling intelligence and communications roles.
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Fleet Scout | SF | Dewclaw class Fleet Scout | Fleet Scouts tend to focus on endurance, sped, and range. They may travel many parsecs 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.
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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 vessles, but they can harass effectively.
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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.
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Asteroid Scout | SP | Pallad class Asteroid Scout | It's far more common for larger vessels to make use of planetoid hulls than smaller ones. Asteroid scouts are an application where the planetoid hull can be very effective, hiding in plain sight and covertly observing the spaceways.
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Aerodynamic Scout | SX | Wind class Scout/Courier | Aerodynamic scouts are technically spaceplanes. 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.
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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)
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... [5]
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. [6]
Selected Variant Types & Classes
Paramilitary Vessel - Scout Vessel - Scout/Courier:
Ship Summary List
Some of the most commonly used vessels in this role or these roles include:
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References & Contributors (Sources)
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- This article is an amalgamation of many different materials published since 1977.
- Martin Dougherty. Scout Ships (Avenger Enterprises, 2007), TBD.
- Andrew Welty, Ian Stead. Merchants and Cruisers (Mongoose Publishing, 2011), 57-58.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Marc Miller. Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium (Game Designers Workshop, 1990), 5.
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak