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Line Combatants (Primary - Capital) Escort Combatants (Secondary - Subcapital) Military Auxiliary (Tertiary)
B-
Battleship 		C-
Cruiser 		O-
Ortillery 		V-
Carrier 		D-
Destroyer 		E-
Escort 		F-
Fighter 		H-
Defense/Security 		I-
Combat Transport 		Q-
Combat Support 		S-
Scout 		U-
Utility 		X-
Commo 		Z-
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Mercantile Commercial Ships (Trade & Profit) Non-Mercantile Commercial Ships (Industry & Profit) Non-Commercial Ships (Nonprofit) System Craft (Intrastellar)
A-
Tramp 		M-
Freighter 		R-
Liner 		T-
Transport 		G-
Industrial 		J-
Prospector 		K-
Expedition 		P-
Corsair 		U-
Utility 		L-
Science 		N-
Medical 		Y-
Private 		WB-
Barge 		WA-
Satellite 		WO-
Space Station

T-class Transport: Bulk transport vessels are civilian commercial ships with hulls designed for transport of bulk materials.

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Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
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    • Description (Specifications)

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    Spectrum of Civil Shipping in Charted Space

    Spectrum of Civil Shipping in Charted Space: 1105
    Cateogries A-class R-class M-class T-class
    Synopsis Tramp Liner Freighter Transport & Tanker
    Hull Tonnage 100 to 2,499 dTons 100 to 2,499 dTons 2,500 to 999,999 dTons 2,500 to 999,999 dTons or more...
    (...rarely more than 1,000,000) dTons
    Size-Cat ACS ACS BCS & FCS BCS & FCS (rarely WCS)
    Ideal Freight Volume Zero to Low (Hundreds of tons) Medium (Hundreds to Thousands of tons) High (Thousands to Tens of Thousands of tons) Very High (Tens to Hundreds of Thousands of tons)
    Market Unscheduled low volume, high speculation trade routes Mostly scheduled, medium speculation, subsidized trade routes Scheduled medium and high-volume, low speculation trade routes Scheduled high volume trade routes with massive economies of scale, or massive (...usually government) projects
    Rough Market Share 10% 25% 45% 20%
    Area of Influence Cluster or Trace+ Subsector+ Sector Multi-Sector
    Business Fledgling Line Subsector-wide Line & Interface Line Sector-wide Line Multi-sector Line
    Remarks Merchant Princes & Adventurers Scheduled & Subsidized Trade Backbone of Merchant Trade Corporate Bulk Trade
    NOTES: While standards exist, ship naming standards evolve with time and over tech epochs. Class naming comments are only generalizations and many exceptions exist. Trade is heavily affected by local regulations, the rule of law, and local security conditions. WCS-class vessels are not ordinarily used for merchant missions as they are too large and expensive.

    Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)

    Transports form the economic backbone that enables any sizable polity to exist. If there is one supraclass that can be said to be the single most vital to any such polity, this is it. The Third Imperium could, in theory under hypothetical optimal conditions, continue to exist without warships, scout vessels, x-boats (...communications being handled by transports instead), and all other types - but it can not exist without transports hauling freight (...and sometimes people) from world to world. [1]

    One reason is that many colonies can not survive without continued import of vital goods. During the Long Night and Collapse, when conditions (...whether destruction of or damage to transports, loss of availability of maintenance, disruption of cargo availability, destabilization of currency, or any of a number of other factors) meant that transports stopped coming, many colonies were unable to support themselves. Nonagricultural worlds ran out of food, many agricultural worlds ran out of spare parts to run their farms (...or the machines that kept their land arable), and many worlds with tainted or exotic atmospheres ran out of spare parts for the machines that kept their air breathable. Lucky survivors found their way to other worlds that could sustain themselves; the rest died. Only with the return of regular freight service could these colonies be successfully re-established. [2]

    Supraclass Roles

    Transports typically serve the following roles:

    1. Bulk Carrier (TC)
    2. Bulk Cargo Carrier (TC)
    3. Bulk Cargo Hauler (TC)
    4. Bulk Hauler (TC)
    5. Bulk Liquid Carrier (TA)
    6. Bulk Transport (TC)
    7. Bulk Transporter (TC)
    8. Cargo Carrier (TC)
    9. Cargo Ship (TC)
    10. Cargo Transport (TC)
    11. Frame Carrier (TV)
    12. Freighter (TC)
      1. Heavy Freighter (TC)
      2. Light Freighter (TC)
      3. Medium Freighter (TC)
    13. Fleet Transport (TC)
    14. Frontier Tanker (TC)
    15. Frontier Transport (TC)
    16. Grain Hauler (TC)
    17. Heavy Jump Transport (T)
    18. Heavy Tanker (TA)
    19. Heavy Transport (TC)
    20. Highliner (TC)
    21. Jump Ship (T)
    22. Jump Tanker (T)
    23. Ore Hauler (TC)
    24. Provincial Carrier (TC)
    25. Ship Transporter (TV)
    26. Station Tanker (TA)
    27. Super-Heavy Transport (TC)
    28. Tanker (TA)
    29. Transport (T) (Namesake)
    30. Transporter (TC)
    31. Ultra-Heavy Cargo Transport (TC)

    Supraclass Archetypes

    T-class Transport Supraclass Archetypes
    Archetype Type Code Exemplar Remarks
    Transport T (Namesake) TBD class Vessel TBD
    Bulk Cargo Carrier TC TBD class Vessel Bulk cargo haulers focus on transporting containerized freight. They often operate over well known, long establish routes. They are often contracted directly to companies with most or all their capacity used for moving that company's products. The primary way they differ from other transports is that they deal with large cargo containers. These containers are connected to an external framework, which provides atmosphere and power, and allows access by crew members. There are usually discounts for modules without power and/or atmosphere requirements.
    • TBD is specifically not used, since many naval architects have used this as a stub for an as-yet-unclassified ship.
    Grain Hauler TCG TBD class Vessel Another bulk cargo hauler for agricultural products. These cargoes can not exposed to vacuum or temperature extremes, so the hold is sealed, and subject to strict environmental standards. The holds are normally not suitable for passengers or crew due to the temperature, atmospheric mix, or pressure conditions needed to keep the agricultural products as fresh as possible. Grain is merely one of the most common cargoes these ships carry; anything that requires a pressurized, environmentally-controlled container may be carried by this type.
    Ore Hauler TCO TBD class Vessel A specialized bulk cargo hauler for raw or processed ore. To qualify as this type, at least half of the cargo may be exposed to vacuum and/or suffer temperature extremes (and is not necessarily liquid or gas, nor in detachable cargo containers), though some ore haulers have a small pressurized hold for more valuable cargoes.
    Tanker TF TBD class Vessel Tankers are specially designed to haul cargoes of either liquid or gas. Many are specially designed and can not take alternate types of cargo. For example, a hydrogen carrier can not normally be used to transport ammonia. There are some specialized tankers where entire storage modules are swapped out, not unlike bulk cargo carriers, but these are more the exception than the rule.

    History & Background (Dossier)

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    Selected Variant Types & Classes

    Civilian Ship - Merchant Ship:

    1. Type T class Transport
    2. Type TB class Bulk Cargo Carrier
    3. Type TF class Tanker
    4. Type TO class Ore Hauler
    5. Type TV class Grain Hauler

    Ship Summary List

    Some of the most commonly used vessels in this role or these roles include:

    1 Representative Transport (T) Classes
    Class Mission Code TL Tons Jump G Origin Canon Quick ship profile
    Class Mission Code TL Tons Jump G Origin Canon Quick ship profile
    Cadence Gaul class Troop Transport TT 10 4,000 1 6 Maujen Defense Bureau TBD


    0 Representative Bulk Cargo Carrier (TC) Classes
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    0 Representative Ore Hauler (TCO) Classes
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    0 Representative Grain Hauler (TCG) Classes
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    0 Representative Tanker (TF) Classes
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    1. ↑ Information provided to the library by Adrian Tymes
    2. ↑ Information provided to the library by Adrian Tymes
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