Life Boat

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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.
• The Supraclass designation is also known as Ship Mission, Ship Mission Code, Mission, or Ship Hull Designation.
• It is a starship supraclass.

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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)

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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.

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Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)

Life Boats or Escape Pods are typically stationed on larger ships as an emergency precaution. Smaller ships typically do not carry them or use a smallcraft in this role.

• Most such craft are unarmed and defenseless and are easily destroyed by a military or paramilitary aggressor.

Supraclass Roles

Life Boats typically serve the following roles:

• Contingency Craft
• Emergency Craft
• Escape Pod
• Launch
• Lifeboat
• Lighter
• Runabout
• Shuttle
• Utility Boat

Supraclass Archtypes

TBD-class Life Boat Supraclass Archtypes
Archtype	Type Code	TL Range	Remarks
TBD	TBD	TBD	None

History & Background (Dossier)

Since the earliest days of spaceflight, emergency precautions and craft have been operated. The modern lifeboat is inexpensive and capable of sustaining life for a limited period, or achieving planetfall in most models.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Civilian Ship - Smallcraft - Life Boat: Civilian Vessel - Smallcraft - Life Boat:

1. Type UE class Life Boat
   1. Deliverance class Lifeboat
   2. Interstellar Lifesaver class Lifeboat
   3. KSbA Model A-23 class Lifeboat
   4. Longevity class Lifeboat
   5. Marrel Veckor class Lifeboat
   6. Model 292 class Life Boat
   7. Reliant class Lifeboat
   8. Reprieve class Escape Pod
   9. SK-3 class Lifeboat

Ship Summary List

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

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References & Contributors (Sources)

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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• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 78.
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• S.R. Greene. SGS: Imperial Small Craft (Seeker Gaming Systems, 1992), TBD.
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• Martin Dougherty. Scout Ships (Avenger Enterprises, 2007), TBD.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), TBD.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science