Smallcraft
Small Craft: Vessels under a hundred tons are considered to be small craft. [1]
- Smallcraft are non-jump spacecraft under a 100 dTons in displacement.
- There are two primary types of smallcraft:
- Combatant Smallcraft usually known as Fighters
- Noncombatant Smallcraft usually known as Utility Craft
- Smallcraft meant to be carried internally in other, larger ships are often called subcraft.
- Various standard types of small craft exist.
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)
Each small craft design is intended to be as useful as possible. As a result, smallcraft descriptions cover the basic performance of the craft, and indicates price, crew, and other details. Each craft also has a feature called excess space: this interior tonnage may be used by the purchaser for a wide variety of purposes. In effect, when the craft is procured, it is customized by the purchaser for some specific use. Any fitting or combination of fittings available may be specified for a standard design small craft. The prices, however, are ignored, and are considered to be included in the standard design price. [1]
Shuttling between planets, small non-starships run errands, make deliveries. and generally do much of the dirty work that larger craft can't or won't do. Small craft displace less than 100 dtons and are thus incapable of interstellar flight.
These vary in tonnage and in their intended function or role in fleet maneuvers and tactics. The security of the state is usually the primary design imperative. [2]
Ship Classification by Size | |||||
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# | Type | Tonnage | Examples | Remarks | |
1. | Smallcraft | 0 to 99 tons | Smallcraft are typically Subcraft, designed to be carried by carrier craft. | ||
2. | Spacecraft | 100 tons or larger | Spacecraft are in-system vessels, lacking interstellar drives.
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3. | Adventure Class Ships (ACS) | 100 to 2,499 tons | Adventure Class ships are usually jump-capable.
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4. | Battle Class Ships (BCS) | 2,500 to about 1,000,000 tons | Battle Class ships are warships. They are usually jump-capable.
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5. | World Class Ships (WCS) | Larger than 1,000,000 tons | Loeskalth planetoid generation ship. | World Class ships are beyond expensive and represent suprapolity-level investment.
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Escort Combatants (Secondary) - The Lightcraft Hierarchy
A number of smallcraft and ACS combatants exist:
- Smallcraft (F or U) (0 to 99 tons)
- Bigcraft (W or Other) (100 or larger tons)
- Escort (E) (100 to 2,499 tons)
- Destroyer (D) (2,500 or larger tons)
History & Background (Dossier)
There are eight standard designs available; each design plan is available for Cr100. All take approximately twelve months to build. All are streamlined, and can enter atmospheres. All can operate with unrefined fuel; they have fuel scoops which allow them to skim fuel from a gas giant. [1]
Smallcraft are where most early technology civilizations begin their spaceflight programs. By the modern interstellar age of TL:10-12, smallcraft are used as auxiliaries to larger starcraft and other interstellar FTL machines.
Most Common Standardized Smallcraft Types
- Cutter (50-ton)
- Fighter (10-ton)
- Launch (20-ton)
- Pinnace (40-ton)
- Ship's Boat (30-ton)
- Shuttle (95-ton)
- Slow Boat (30-ton)
- Slow Pinnace (40-ton)
Smallcraft’s Larger Cousins: Bigcraft
Big Craft are ships that weight a 100 tons or more, designed to be carried within other ships.
- Bigcraft may use jump drives.
- Bigcraft used as subcraft are essentially large fighters or small vessels.
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 17.
- Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), TBD.
- Mike Jackson. "Traveller Craft." Third Imperium 10 (1988): TBD.
- Mike Jackson. "Traveller Craft." Third Imperium 11 (1988): TBD.
- S.R. Greene. SGS: Imperial Small Craft (Seeker Gaming Systems, 1992), TBD. (Deck Plans)
- S.R. Greene. SGS: Imperial Small Craft Vol. 2 (Seeker Gaming Systems, 1992), TBD. (Deck Plans)
- Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen. Traveller: The New Era (Game Designers Workshop, 1993), 378. Traveller: The New Era (Main Rulebook)
- Dave Nilsen. Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), TBD.
- Jason Kemp. Stellar Reaches 04 (FLTGames Gaming Group, 2006), TBD.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 17.
- ↑ Information provided to the library by Ronald B. Kline, Jr.