Express Boat Tender

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The Express Boat Network would not work without the express boat tender, a starship specifically designed to maintain the Express Boat Network.

• It is a tender, a kind of starship supraclass.

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Starship:

• Starship User Types
  • Civilian Ship
  • Paramilitary Ship
  • Military Ship
• Ships by Function
  • Bigcraft
  • Boat
  • Non-starship
  • Smallcraft
  • Spaceship
  • Starship
  • Subcraft
  • Warship
• Advanced Ship Classifications
  • Ship Mission Code / Supraclass
  • Ship Type Code / Superclass
  • Ship Class Code / Class
  • Model (TL)
  • Bloc (Lot)
• Basic Ship Classifications
  • Adventure Class Ship
  • Battle Class Ship
  • Fleet Class Ship
  • Size-Role Classification
  • QSP
  • USP
  • World Class Ship
• Speed of Travel
  • FTL
  • NAFAL (STL)

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Description (Specifications)

No information yet available.

Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)

Express Boat Tenders, stationed in each system that express boats stop at, serve two purposes.

• First, they tend express boats, recovering them when they arrive, refuelling them and repairing minor problems, and then sending them on their way.
• Second, they serve as a relay station between the planetary surface based message center and the express boat itself. Messages are forwarded to the tender for transmittal to the xboat just before it leaves for the next star system.

Supraclass Archtypes

No information yet available.

Supraclass Roles

Express Boat Tenders typically serve the following roles:

• Communications Hub
• Corsair
• Repair Dock
• Seeker
• Tanker (refueler)
• Tender
• Transport

History & Background (Dossier)

Express boat tenders are encountered anywhere that X-Boats may be expected. High population, high technology systems will probably have several tenders operating in order to handle the flow of information. Express boat tenders are jump capable, and each may carry up to four xboats in its cavernous ship bay. As a result, the tenders can be found in fringe or off-route systems ferrying extra xboats to areas that need them. They also undertake recovery missions to pick up damaged xboats or boats which have misjumped to off-route systems.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Express Boats:

• Type X class Express Boat
  • Xavier class Express Boat

Tenders:

• Type XT class Express Boat Tender
  • Lirshala class Express Boat Tender
  • Purcell class Express Boat Tender

Ship Summary List

1 Representative Express Boat (X) 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 Type XUA class Armed Packet Ship XUA 12 300 3 3 Third Imperium Yes. Published, canon starship design. XU-CS33

Image Repository

1. A typical Purcell class Express Boat Tender. Black and white illustration by IISS artist.
   

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Classic Traveller Supplement 7 Traders and Gunboats
• Classic Traveller The Early Adventures
• Periodical: MegaTraveller Travellers' Digest No. 1
• TNE Purcell class Tender Hard Times
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science