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The [[Universal Ship Profile]] (USP), ''Universal Craft Profile'' (UCP), or ''Imperial Ship Profile'' is a universal code for describing [[ship]]s or [[vessel]]s.  

== Description  ==
The ''Imperial Ship Profile'' is used by the [[Scout Service]] to classify [[ship mission]] and performance. All together, the ship's vital statistics are presented in one short record. The record is relatively brief and finer detail can be documented elsewhere in the data file.

=== Image Repository ===
# How the ''Universal Ship Profile'' works. <br> [[File: Trav-USP-CT-Highguard-pg-52 04-June-2019a.jpg]]

=== USP Value Parameters ===
START BLOCK: 111334 Unicorn-S-
# Ship Registration #
# Ship Name ([[Named Ship]])
# [[Ship Type Code]] (alphanumeric code: typically 2 to 4 characters)

BLOCK-1: 0000000 <br> PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS
# [[Ton|Tonnage Code]] (Tn)
# [[Hull|Configuration]] (Hl) ([[CBPUSAL]])
# [[Jump Drive|Jump]] (J-?)
# [[Maneuver Drive|Maneuver]] (M-?)
# [[Power Plant]] (P-?)
# [[Ship Computer|Computer]] (Sc-?)
# [[Crew]] (C-?) (...excludes [[marine]]s)

BLOCK-2: 000000 <br> DEFENSIVE EQUIPMENT
# [[Hull Armor]] (Ha-?)
# [[Sandcaster]]s (Sc)
# [[Meson Screen]] (Ms)
# [[Nuclear Damper]] (Nd)
# [[Force Field Generator|Forcefield]] (Gb)
# [[Repulsor]] (Rp)

BLOCK-3: 00000-0 <br> OFFENSIVE EQUIPMENT
# [[Laser]]s (Ls)
# [[Energy Weapon]]s (Ew)
# [[Particle Accelerator]]s (Pa)
# [[Meson Gun]]s (Mg)
# [[Missile Rack|Missile]]s - (Ms)
# [[Fighter|Fighter Squadron]]s (Fs)

END BLOCK: MCr14.5 100 tons 
# [[MCr]] Cost
# Tonnage

'''NOTES:''' Ship registration numbers tend to be six alphanumeric characters in length, but some older or large production lot ships can greatly vary by local custom and manufacturer.

=== Configuration Codes ===
'''Configuration''' indicates the shape and degree of streamlining the hull demonstrates. {{Page cite|name= High Guard |page=21 |version=Classic Traveller}}
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! [[USP]]
! [[Configuration]]
! Streamlining
! Price Mod.
|-
| 1
| [[Needle Hull|Needle/Wedge Hull]]
| Yes: [[Streamlined Hull]]
| +20%
|-
| 2
| [[Cone Hull]]
| Yes: [[Streamlined Hull]]
| +10%
|-
| 3
| [[Cylinder Hull]]
| Partial: [[Partially Streamlined Hull]]
| No Difference
|-
| 4
| [[Close Structure Hull]]
| Partial: [[Partially Streamlined Hull]]
| -40%
|-
| 5
| [[Sphere Hull]]
| Partial: [[Partially Streamlined Hull]]
| -30%
|-
| 6
| [[Flattened Sphere Hull]]
| Yes: [[Streamlined Hull]]
| -20%
|-
| 7
| [[Dispersed Structure Hull]]
| No: [[Unstreamlined Hull]]
| -50%
|-
| 8
| [[Planetoid Hull]]
| No: [[Unstreamlined Hull]]
| No Difference
|-
| 9
| [[Buffered Planetoid Hull]]
| No: [[Unstreamlined Hull]]
| No Difference
|-
|}

=== USP Information Blocks ===
One version consists of three blocks in this order:
* [[Ship mission]] codes
* One number or letter each for:
** [[Technology level]]
** Size modifier (...such as 4 for 40 tons or 40,000 tons)
** Size indicator (...such as 7 for 40 tons or A for 40,000 tons)
** [[Jump Drive|Jump performance]] (...in [[parsec]]s per jump)
** [[Maneuver Drive|Acceleration performance]] (...in Gs; ships capable of 10 Gs or more note this in [[eHex]] to keep it to a single digit)
** [[Hull]] configuration
* One letter each to signal the presence of other features
** A: (heavily) Armed (..sometimes omitted if the mission code suggests it should be armed, or for light weapons such as a single laser turret on a [[free trader]])
** C: [[Cold Sleep]] (...at least enough [[Low Passage|low berths]] to carry the entire crew)
** D: Long Duration (...extra supplies or stores, and/or the ability to manufacture its own)
** E: [[Energy Weapon]]s (...not including spinal weapons)
** K: [[Kinetic Weapon]]s (...not including missiles or spinal weapons)
** L: [[Lab Space|Lab]] (...in some form: a significant amount of tonnage for [[scientist]]s to work in)
** M: [[Missile Weapon]]s (...including [[torpedo]]es, not including [[spinal weapon]]s)
** N: [[Nonhumanoid]] (...designed for crew with [[nonhumanoid]] [[body plan]]s)
** P: rePair facilities (...adaptable to any ship that the ship's crew agrees to fix, whether or not the facilities are optimized toward a certain type of ship; ships only able to repair themselves and their own [[smallcraft]] do not count)
** R: all [[Robot]] crew (...a [[drone]], possibly including biological [[android]]s but no [[sophont]] crew, whether or not the ship carries passengers and/or takes orders from a captain who may or may not usually be aboard; a [[sophont]] [[artificial intelligence]] crew would disqualify their ship from this code, but none are known to [[Charted Space]] as of [[1105]])
** S: [[Spinal Weapon]]
** X: eXperimental (...the opposite of a standard design: a ship class consisting of few examples, possibly just one; any [[AAB]] article about a ship with this code should be understood to be data on what the ship used to be like some time ago)

''NOTES:'' Regardless of version, each position has a "factor" or value that represents an element of the ship. Common elements include hull displacement [[ton]]s, [[hull]] configuration, [[computer]] type, [[weapon]]s, [[screen]]s, [[fighter]]s and the number of [[crew]].

A size modifier and indicator of 00 means something that is no more than 0.000001 tons.  This is typically debris or small munition being individually tracked for some reason, or a tiny drone.  Civilizations as early as [[TL-8]] have been known to put up monitoring satellites this small.  The Imperial planners who developed this standard decreed this as the smallest size worth distinguishing, based on measurement standards dating back to pre-spaceflight [[Terra (world)|Terra]].

== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
The usage of the [[USP]] in various formats can be traced well back to the [[First Imperium]] although scholars argue much of the research.

When the possibility of a [[hop drive]] was discovered, with the observation that [[jump drive]] will cap out at a 9 [[parsec]] range, jump performance codes A-J were reserved for hop drive (A = Hop-1 through J = Hop-9), K-T for [[Skip Drive|whatever would come next after hop drive]], and U-Z for any [[drive]]s beyond that, skipping I and O as usual.

=== Selected USP examples ===
Examples include:
* MT C4831U LC : merchant transport, tech level 12, 400dt, jump 3, g 1, unstreamlined, cold sleepers, lab
* VCR C2A23S ADNS : vargr cruise strike, 20000dt, jump 2, g 3, streamlined, armed, long duration, nonhumanoid, spinal mount weapon
* FI F3704A EKM : fighter imperial, tech level 15, 30dt, 4g, airframed, energy, kinetic and missile weapons

=== Extensions and Modifications ===
To condense information more for a quick description, There is the performance code

START BLOCK:
# Ship Registration #
# Ship Name ([[Named Ship]])
# [[Technology level]]
# [[Ship Type Code]] (first letter only)

BLOCK-1:
# [[Ton|Tonnage Code]] (Tn)
# [[Jump Drive|Jump]] (J-?)
# [[Maneuver Drive|Maneuver]] (M-?)
# (if size code 0) -[[Tonnage]]}

BLOCK-2:
# Highest Weapon Rating

=== USP Examples ===
Examples:
* Scout 9S-222-0
* P.F. Sloan 15F-E46-9
* Ghalak 15C-P45-H
* Azhanti High Lightning 14C-P52-N
* Plankwell 15B-S45-T

Another possible change is to annotate details in brackets, such as:
# Limited or extra jump fuel after jump drive
# Agility after manuever drive
# Frozen watch after crew
# Batteries {bearing and total if applicable} after weapons

Example:
* Antiama FC-R4425J3-29(B,G)9901-9(B,G)9(4,5)999(42,60)-30 MCr51,922 100kTon

Another possible change is to annotate damage to systems in square brackets. <br>
Example:
* BC-9514 Kinunir BC-A244(1)[3]7G2-000510-5(2)[1]02(2)03(2)-0 MCr1336.63 1250 tons <br>
The Kinunir has taken a manuever drive hit and a weapon hit, which rendered one battery of lasers inoperable.

== See also ==
Please refer to the following [[AAB]] [[Library Data]] for more information: <br>
'''[[Starship]]:'''
{{:Referral-Tree-Starship-User-Types}}
{{:Referral-Tree-Advanced-Ship-Classifications}}
{{:Referral-Tree-Basic-Ship-Classifications}}
{{:Referral-Tree-Ships-by-Function}}
{{:Referral-Tree-Speed-of-Travel}}
{{:Referral-Tree-Ship-Design}}

'''[[Starship|Ship Design]]:'''
{{:Referral-Tree-Naval-Construction-Ship-Design}}
 

== References ==
{{Intermediate}}
{{Sources
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