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Revision as of 08:18, 14 June 2019
Q-class Combat Support Ships, also known as Military Auxiliaries form a support or tertiary element of combatant naval fleet forces.
- They serve as combat multipliers enhancing the primary line combatants of battleships and cruisers and the secondary line of various escorts.
- Many call them auxiliaries or tertiary combatants.
- Almost any civilian hull can be redesignated as a Q-class if meant for dedicated military service as an auxiliary.
- Specific military transports meant to assault enemy planets, moons, and other installations under fire are designated I-class Combat Transports.
- 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)
- Astronomical Unit (AU)
- FTL
- Light Speed (c)
- Light-week (lw)
- Light-year (ly)
- NAFAL (STL)
- Parsec (pc)
Description (Specifications)
A Military Auxiliary or Auxiliaries are Combat Support Ships:
- Capital Ships acting in a combat support role to warships.
- Smallcraft of various types that primarily perform utility functions as Utility Craft.
- A whole variety of other auxiliaries function in a combat support role as force multipliers.
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Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)
These craft have a wide variety of uses from cargo, fuel and passenger transport; policing; customs enforcement; to search and rescue operations and support.
This class of vessel includes pinnaces, shuttles, cutters, ship's boats, and all other non-jump capable spacecraft of less than 100 tons. The exception to this are system defense boats whose role is system defense. Often the names are used interchangeable, but they are often classified by role and size.
Supraclass Roles
Combat Support Ships typically serve the following roles:
- Assault Tanker
- Cargo Transport
- Degaussing Vessel
- Electronic Warfare Ship
- Fleet Auxiliary
- Fleet Repair Vessel
- Fleet Replenishment Ship
- Fleet Support Vessel
- Fleet Tanker
- Fuel Tanker
- Light Transport
- Logistics Transport
- Logistics Vessel
- Military Specialty Ship
- Military Transport
- Modular Light Fleet Auxiliary
- Ordnance Carrier
- Ordnance Vessel
- Passenger Transport
- Repair Ship
- Repair/Salvage Ship
- Replenishment Ship
- Resupply Vessel
- Resupply/Replenishment Vessel
- Rift Tanker
- Salvage Ship
- Military Specialty Ship
- Store Ship
- Stores Ship
- Supply Ship
- Tanker
- Tanker/Replenishment Ship
- Transport Tanker
Smallcraft Auxiliaries = Utility Craft:
Supraclass Archtypes
Q-class Combat Support Ship Supraclass Archtypes | |||
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Archtype | Type Code | TL Range | Remarks |
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History & Background (Dossier)
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- Teeth and tail discussion
Selected Variant Types & Classes
Ship Summary List
Some of the most commonly used vessels in this role include:
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- Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science