Expedition Ship
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Type-K Expedition Ships are tasked to go on extended trips whether for recreation (safari), exploration (colonization), diplomacy (first contact), or other tasks requiring purposeful travelling across vast distances.
- The Supraclass designation is also known as Ship Mission, Ship Mission Code, Mission, or Ship Hull Designation.
- It is a starship supraclass.
Library Data Referral Tree
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)
No information yet available.
Image Repository
- A brochure image of an Animal class Safari Ship deploying a Denuli class Hunting Launch.
Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)
Like most civilian vessels, Expedition Ships are not designed for combat and should run whenever possible when facing marauders or pirate vessels. Many are equipped with light armament and defensive suites nevertheless.
Supraclass Roles
Expedition Ships typically serve the following roles:
Largecraft & Bigcraft:
- Colony Ship (KC)
- Consular Corvette (KD)
- Diplomacy Ship (KD)
- Diplomat's Ship (KD)
- Embassy Ship (KD)
- Expedition Ship (K) (Namesake)
- Expedition Vessel (K)
- Expeditionary Colony Ship (KC)
- Expeditionary Diplomacy Ship (KD)
- Expeditionary Smallcraft (UK)
- Exploratory Cruiser (K)
- First Contact Ship (KD)
- Generation Ship (KCG)
- Hunter's Ship (KH)
- Safari Ship (KH)
- Safari Smallcraft (UK)
- Settlement Ship (KC)
- Settlement Transport (KC)
- Sleeper Ship (KCS)
- Space Ark (KC)
- Worldship (KC)
Civilian Subcraft
Civilian subcraft (...both smallcraft and bigcraft) are carried by some of these vessels:
- Barge (WB)
- Utility Craft (U)
Supraclass Archetypal Roles
These vessels typically serve the following archetypal roles:
| K-class Expedition Ship Supraclass Archetypes | |||
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| Archetype | Type Code/s | Exemplar | Remarks |
| Expedition Ship | K | Leaping Snowcat class Safari Ship | Type-K Expedition Ships are tasked to go on extended trips whether for recreation (safari), exploration (colonization), diplomacy (first contact), or other tasks requiring purposeful travelling across vast distances. [1]
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| Colony Ship | KC | C-Jammer class Settlement Transport | Colony ships, settlement transports, star arks, and the like bring a population of colonists across great distances to establish new mainworlds. Such vessels are often quite large, needing to bring all the necessities of life to the new world. [2]
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| Diplomacy Ship | KD | Type HE class Embassy Ship | Consular vessels, embassy ships, diplomat's vessels, first contact observers, and the like travel great distances to make diplomatic contact with new sophont societies, polities, and civilizations. Highly trained diplomats and the like must often safeguard sensitive information and sensitive communications requiring self-destruct devices in case of capture, and require secure communications equipment to safeguard state secrets. [3]
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| Safari Ship | KH | Animal class Safari Ship | None
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| Expeditionary Smallcraft | UK | Denuli class Hunting Launch | Expeditionary smallcraft are specialized utility craft designed to support the operations of expedition ships. They can range from specialized colony support craft, to stealthy first contact craft designed to unobtrusively observe newly discovered sophont societies, to hunting launches for safari ships, and a variety of other craft. [4]
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| NOTES: There is semantic overlap between many of the classes and codes. Some codes organize by mission or capability, others by size and tonnage, and yet others by other characteristics. | |||
History & Background (Dossier)
No information yet available.
Selected Variant Types & Classes
Ship Summary List
Some of the most commonly used vessels in this role or these roles include:
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| 0 Representative Diplomacy Ship (KD) Classes | |
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| 0 Representative Safari Ship (KH) Classes | |
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| 0 Representative Expeditionary Smallcraft (UK) Classes | |
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
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- ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 18.
- ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 18.
- ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 17-31.
- ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 18.
- ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 18.
- ↑ Marc Miller. "Safari Ship." Safari Ship (1984): 25.
- ↑ Dave Sering. Simba Safari (Judges Guild, 1981), 4.