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Revision as of 01:45, 15 August 2019
A HSB-class System Defense Boats are a defensive spaceship supraclass.
- SDBs are generally considered paramilitary vessels even when in military service since they don't perform an offensive role.
- They are grouped as H-class Security Vessels.
- SDBs come in a number of guises: capital ships, planetoid hulls, sentries, dreadnoughts (monitors), smallcraft, bigcraft, and more.
- They are non-starships specifically intended for defensive operations inside a star system.
Library Data Referral Tree
Please see the following AAB Library Data articles 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)
Most System Defense Boats (SDB's) range in size from 100 to 10,000 tons and are constructed at all tech levels from TL-8 to 15.
Image Repository
- A side view of a Type SB class System Defense Boat.
- A Drakkon class System Defense Boat.
- A heavily armored Arden class SDB.
- A Dragon class System Defense Boat in action safeguarding a gas giant from marauders wanting to perform wilderness refueling.
Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)
SDBs most often operate according to predetermined plans designed to optimize their defensive potential. SDBs are typically stationed at the vital points of a system including gas giants, asteroid belts, major worlds, and so on. Because SDBs usually have no jump drives, shifting them from system to system can be a problem. Some types have jump shuttles which fit to the craft and provide jump capability. Another method is simple transport in large bulk cargo containers; the SDBs are loaded into 10,000-ton or 20,000-ton bulk carriers for the multi-parsec journey. This method, of course, is not recommended if immediate combat is expected at the destination.
Supraclass Roles
SDBs typically serve the following roles:
- Defenders (HS)
- Defensive Ship (HS)
- Gunboats (HS)
- Missile Boats (HS)
- System Defense Boat (HS) (Namesake)
- System Defense Craft (HS)
- System Defense Ship (HS)
Size-Class Roles for Cruiser Vessels
- Utility Craft (U) (1 to 99 tons)
- Very Light System Defense Boat (HSVL) (100 to 2,499 tons)
- Light System Defense Boat (HSL) (2,500 to 99,999 tons)
- Medium System Defense Boat (HSM) (100,000 to 249,999 tons)
- Heavy System Defense Boat (HSH) (250,000 to 499,999 tons)
- Superheavy System Defense Boat (HSS) (500,000 to 999,999 tons)
- Ultraheavy System Defense Boat (HSU) (1,000,000 or more 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 Archetypes
There are hundreds of different types, depending upon the specific mission for which they are designed.
System Defense Boat Supraclass Archetypes | |||
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Archetype | Type Code | Exemplar | Remarks |
TBD | HSB | TBD | None |
TBD | HSB | TBD | None |
TBD | HSB | TBD | None |
TBD | HSB | TBD | None |
History & Background (Dossier)
SDB's were developed on the principle that a non-starship, because of the additional armament made possible by its lack of jump drives, can ordinarily defeat a jump-capable starship of equal tonnage.
Selected Variant Types & Classes
Paramilitary Vessels - System Defense Boats:
- Type HSB class System Defense Boat AKA Type SB class System Defense Boat
- Able class War Rocket
- Arden class System Defense Boat
- B-46 class Attack Torpedo Boat
- Bandersnatch class System Defense Boat
- Bando class Attack Boat
- Caryatid class System Defense Boat
- Chiang class System Defense Boat
- Cudin class Attack Boat
- Dassa class Attack Boat
- Dragon class System Defense Boat
- Dzegkno class System Defense Boat
- Fazachu class System Defense Boat
- Flash class System Defense Boat
- Fringian System Defense Boat
- Frundsberg class System Defense Boat
- Gundong class System Defense Boat
- Harrier class System Defense Boat
- Holdfast class Heavy System Defense Boat
- Jugendworld class System Defense Boat
- Khanate class System Defense Boat
- Nassin class System Defense Boat
- Oromet class System Defense Boat
- Penner class System Defense Boat
- Roye class System Defense Boat
- Scorpion class System Defense Boat
- Sentry class System Defense Boat
- Sheppard class Patrol Rocket
- Shukugan class System Defense Boat
- Sirocco Converge class Attack Boat
- Stedlas class System Defense Boat
- Temakurm class Attack Boat
- Thele class System Defense Boat
- Tigershark class Patrol Boat
- Tristar class System Defense Boat
- Val Marin class System Defense Boat
- Wolvesbane class System Defense Boat
- Wyvern class System Defense Boat
- Wyrm class System Defense Boat
- Yunus class System Defense Boat
- Zhodatl class System Defense Boat
- Zhodq class System Defense Boat
- Zydeterranal class System Defense Boat
- Zydpedallion class System Defense Boat
- Zydpharn class System Defense Boat
Paramilitary Vessels - Monitors:
- Type TBD class Monitor
- Archipelago class System Monitor
- Cabon class System Monitor
- Colby class Monitor
- Donnager class Monitor
- Empress Troyhune class Planetoid Monitor
- Guardian class Asteroid Monitor
- Guardian class Monitor
- Harris class Monitor
- Hukkert class Monitor
- Khaar's Will class System Monitor
- Knuckle Head class System Defense Monitor
- MacHeany class Monitor
- Methuselah class System Defense Monitor
- Nexus Warden class System Monitor
- Obsidian class Asteroid Monitor
- Peset class Asteroid Monitor
- Porton class Asteroid Monitor
- Quesha FR-6 class Buffered Asteroid Monitor
- Sable class Heavy System Defense Monitor
- SH2K Frost G class Medium Asteroid Monitor
- SH7K Fromaag class Heavy Asteroid Monitor
- Shiishu class Monitor]
- Sirocco Converge class Attack Boat
- Stormrider class Monitor
- Temarn class Asteroid Monitor
- Thaakh class Monitor
- Uffan class Monitor
Paramilitary Vessels - Tenders:
- Type TBD class Tender
- Arachnae class System Defense Boat Tender
- Daprolix class Battle Tender
- Fringian Military Ship Transporter
- Garin class Light Carrier
- Jacent Capital class Fleet Tender
- Leset class Fleet Tender
- Merant class Fleet Tender
- Monica class Battle Tender
- Oromet Delight class Fleet Tender
- Saeda class Fleet Tender
- Syndrome class Fleet Tender
- Yedidah class Fleet Tender
Paramilitary Vessels - Jump Shuttles:
Ship Summary List
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References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Supplement 9 Fighting Ships
- Deck Plan 6: Dragon-class SDB
- Journal of the Travellers Aid Society No. 9
- 'Technical Booklet' Brilliant Lances
- Traveller: The New Era Main Rulebook (pg. 373)
- Deck Plans Seeker Gaming Systems: System Defense Boat and Jump Shuttle
- Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 09
- Bryan Steele. Traders and Gunboats (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), TBD.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science