Fueling Craft

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A Fueling Craft is any one of a number of craft, smallcraft, bigcraft, and largecraft, designed to provide fuel to spaceships and starships unable to do it for themselves.

• Many larger craft save cost by using unstreamlined hulls and lack fuel scoops or a fuel treatment plant.
• Such craft rely on a network of fuel tankers and refueling shuttles to refuel after travel in jumpspace.
• 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:

• Starship User Types
  • Civilian Ship
  • Military Ship
  • Non-Commercial Vessel
  • Paramilitary Ship

• 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
  • Capital Ship
  • Fleet Class Ship
  • Size-Role Classification
  • Subcapital Ship
  • QSP
  • USP
  • World Class Ship

• Ships by Function
  • Bigcraft
  • Boat
  • Capital Ship
  • Largecraft
  • Non-starship
  • Smallcraft
  • Spaceplane
  • Spaceship
  • Starship
  • Subcapital Ship
  • Subcraft
  • System Craft
  • Warship

Speed of Travel

• 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

1. A Bubble class Fuel Cutter cruising through the icy debris of a gas giant's planetary ring.
   
2. The MC&S Engineering Sternplatz class Refueling Pinnace with it's bulky, yet portable Fuel Treatment Plant.
   

Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)

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Supraclass Archetypal Roles

These vessels typically serve the following archetypal roles:

Tanker / Fuel Shuttle Supraclass Archetypes
Archetype	Type Code
Fuel Lighter	(TF)
Fuel Lighter	(UF)
Fuel Pinnace	(UF)
Fuel Skimmer	(UF)
Fueling Shuttle	(UF)
Heavy Tanker	(TF)
Jump Tanker	(TF)
Refueling Pinnace	(UF)
Refueling Shuttle	(UF)
Station Tanker	(TF)
Tanker	(TF)

Supraclass Roles

Utility Ships typically serve the following roles:

Civilian Largecraft & Bigcraft:

Type T Tanker Supraclass Archetypes
Archetype	Type Code/s	Exemplar	Remarks
Tanker	TF	Regent class Station Tanker	Tankers are specially designed to haul cargoes of either liquid or gas. Many are specially designed and can not take alternate types of cargo. For example, a hydrogen carrier can not normally be used to transport ammonia. There are some specialized tankers where entire storage modules are swapped out, not unlike bulk cargo carriers, but these are more the exception than the rule. T = Tanker F = Fuel

Civilian Smallcraft:

Type UF Fueling Smallcraft Supraclass Archetypes
Archetype	Type Code/s	Exemplar	Remarks
Fuel Shuttle	UF	Bubble class Fuel Cutter	Fuel shuttles or lighters are smallcraft that perform a variety of fuel-purposed missions although the most common act to perform wilderness refueling tasks and then ferry fuel back to a largecraft mothership. Others refine fuel, carry it around like miniature tankers, or otherwise do useful things. They also have bigcraft cousins. U = Utility, Multipurpose, etc. F = Fuel, Gas, Tanker, etc.

History & Background (Dossier)

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Selected Variant Types & Classes

Civilian Ship - Merchant Ship:
Type T class Transport:

1. Type TF class Tanker
   1. Baleen class Heavy Tanker
   2. Kleinnächster class Medium Tanker
   3. Last Armada class Frontier Tanker
   4. Nimrod class Fuel Lighter
   5. Orowani Deep Space class Heavy Tanker
   6. Provision class Medium Tanker
   7. Regent class Station Tanker
   8. Type 058A Fedko class Tanker
   9. Valdez class Fleet Tanker

Civilian Ship- Smallcraft - Utility Craft:
Type U class Utility Craft

1. Type UF class Fuel Shuttle
   1. Bubble class Fuel Cutter
   2. Last Armada class Fuel Shuttle
   3. Louis & Clark class Fuel Pinnace
   4. Parthenopinnace Fuel Shuttle
   5. Sternplatz class Refueling Pinnace
   6. Tadpole class Fuel Shuttle
   7. Zheug class Fueling Shuttle

Ship Summary List

Some of the most commonly used vessels in this role or these roles include:

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