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=== Supraclass Roles === | === Supraclass Roles === | ||
''Life Boat''s typically serve the following roles: | ''Life Boat''s typically serve the following roles: | ||
| − | * Contingency Craft | + | * [[Contingency Craft]] |
| − | * Emergency Craft | + | * [[Emergency Craft]] |
| − | * Escape Pod | + | * [[Escape Pod]] |
| − | * Lifeboat | + | * [[Lifeboat]] |
| − | * Lighter | + | * [[Lighter]] |
| − | * Shuttle | + | * [[Shuttle]] |
| − | * Utility Boat | + | * [[Utility Boat]] |
=== Supraclass Archtypes === | === Supraclass Archtypes === | ||
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The Life Boat is an emergency device, a smallcraft, used to allow escape from danger, disaster, or calamity in space-going situations.
- They come in both civilian and military variants.
- It is a smallcraft supraclass.
- The Supraclass designation is also known as Ship Mission, Ship Mission Code, Mission, or Ship Hull Designation.
Description (Specifications)
They typically displace 20.0 tons, and are capable of 1.0 G acceleration and can carry up to three conscious passengers.
- In addition, they often contain five emergency low berths, each capable of holding four persons in cold sleep. Thus a standard life boat can often carry a total of 23 sophonts.
- Life boats are almost always unarmed.
Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)
No information yet available.
Supraclass Roles
Life Boats typically serve the following roles:
Supraclass Archtypes
No information yet available.
History & Background (Dossier)
No information yet available.
Selected Life Boat Variant Types & Classes
Ship Summary List
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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.
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- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science