Monitor
A Monitor is a large spaceship with armament equivalent to a Battleship, often placed in orbit around a mainworld, and used primarily for system defense roles. Generally based on a planetoid hull (and so automatically unstreamlined), these craft depend heavily on pre-positioned caches and fuel shuttles.
- Like battle riders, they are in a conquer-or-die situation if facing superior forces. Their deterrent value is therefore fragile as well as powerful.
- The Supraclass designation is also known as Ship Mission, Ship Mission Code, Mission, or Ship Hull Designation.
- It is a starship supraclass.
Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:
- 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 (Auxiliary Class Ship)
- Battle Class Ship (Bulk / Subcapital Class Ship)
- Capital Ship (Capital Class Ship)
- Fleet Class Ship (Capital Class Ship)
- Size-Role Classification
- Subcapital Ship (Small & Large Battle Class Ships)
- QSP
- USP
- World Class Ship
- NAFAL (STL) - (Not As Fast As Light) / (Slower Than Light)
- Light Speed (c)
- FTL - (Faster Than Light) - "Superluminal"
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- Light-second (ls)
- Light-minute (lm)
- Light-hour (lh)
- Light-day (ld)
- Light-week (lw)
- Light-year (ly)
- Parsec (pc)
Description (Specifications)
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Image Repository
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Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)
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Supraclass Roles
Monitors typically serve the following roles:
- Asteroid Monitor
- Buffered Asteroid Monitor
- Heavy Asteroid Monitor
- Light Monitor
- Medium Asteroid Monitor
- Planetary Monitor
- Planetoid Monitor
- Strike Monitor
Supraclass Archtypes
| Monitor Supraclass Archtypes | |||
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| Archtype | Type Code/s | Exemplar | Remarks |
| Monitor | BM | X | Monitors are usually known as large spaceship with armament equivalent to a battleship, used primarily for system defense roles. Generally based on a planetoid hull (and so automatically unstreamlined), these craft depend heavily on pre-positioned caches and fuel shuttles. The large size of these craft make them generally impossible to move inter-system. Like battle riders, they are in a conquer-or-die situation if facing superior forces. Their deterrent value is therefore fragile as well as powerful. They are generally viewed as more of a mobile fortress than anything else.
The term of monitor is also used with smaller craft. Any semi-mobile fortification, lacking jump capability may be known as a system monitor, but are often grouped in other classes. |
History & Background (Dossier)
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Selected Variant Types & Classes
Monitor
- Type BM class Monitor
- Type BMA class Heavy Monitor
- Type BML class Light Monitor
- Type BMP class Planetoid Monitor
Ship Summary List
Some of the most commonly used vessels in the monitor role include:
| 3 Representative Monitor (BM) Classes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 0 Representative Heavy Monitor (BMH) Classes | |
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| No results |
| 0 Representative Light Monitor (BML) Classes | |
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| No results |
| 0 Representative Medium Monitor (BMM) Classes | |
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| No results |
| 0 Representative Planetoid Monitor (BMP) Classes | |
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| No results |
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- Fighting Ships (Classic Traveller Supplement 9)
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science