Adventure Class Ship

Adventure Class Ships (ACS) are starships and spacecraft suitable for use by small groups of adventurers. The ships are large enough to carry profitable cargos but small enough that the activities of individuals matter. Tonnages. Adventure Class Ships are built using standard hulls between 100 tons and 2500 ton displacement. Vessels smaller than 100 tons are Small Craft. Ships larger than 2500 tons are BCS Battle Class Ships.

Description (Specifications)

These are vessels with no clear corporate and or governmental IFF transponders. This is jump capable system traffic which operates independently of centralized fleet control and files flight plans outside normal channels.

• They are characterized by being Smaller Starships with few crew.
• They are economically handicapped by having trivial cargo and passenger handling capacity.
• This does call into question how they are able to operate profittably and most require alternative revenue streams.

These are traditionally the ships that personnel leaving services or careers can earn as mustering out benefits. These include but are not limited to, scouts, 200 dton free traders, safari ships, yachts, bounty hunters, seekers, lab ships, and pirate corsairs.

History & Background (Dossier)

Services with surplus vessels often find it useful to place ships in the hands of experienced crew to operate independently. This defrays some operating costs and provides flexibility and in some cases plausible deniability. Some of these vessels stimulate economic activity, some are subject to military recall in the event of an emergency. Some can be used to privateer or conduct commerce raiding against hostile neighboring states.

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• T5 Core Rules pg. 274
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science