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Line Combatants (Primary - Capital)				Escort Combatants (Secondary - Subcapital)				Military Auxiliary (Tertiary)
B- Battleship	C- Cruiser	O- Ortillery	V- Carrier	D- Destroyer	E- Escort	F- Fighter	H- Defense/Security	I- Combat Transport	Q- Combat Support	S- Scout	U- Utility	X- Commo	Z- Special

Mercantile Commercial Ships (Trade & Profit)				Non-Mercantile Commercial Ships (Industry & Profit)					Non-Commercial Ships (Nonprofit)			System Craft (Intrastellar)
A- Tramp	M- Freighter	R- Liner	T- Transport	G- Industrial	J- Prospector	K- Expedition	P- Corsair	U- Utility	L- Science	N- Medical	Y- Private	WB- Barge	WA- Satellite	WO- Space Station

A spaceship is a spacecraft NOT equipped with a jump drive. q.v. starship.

They are also called boats.
It is a type of ship and/or vacuum-travelling vehicle.

Library Data Referral Tree

Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:

Starship User Types

Advanced Ship Classifications
- Ship Mission Code / Supraclass
- Ship Type Code / Superclass
- Ship Class Code / Class
- Model (TL)
- Bloc (Lot)

Basic Ship Classifications

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

Speed of Travel

Description (Specifications)

A spaceship is a spacecraft without a jump drive. Spaceships are often carried on Starships for star system usage (e.g. Shuttles, Fighters), and are sometimes transported interstellar distances by a special starship constructed specifically for that purpose (e.g. Battle Rider, Battle Tender).

Please see Civilian Starship Types or Military Starship Types for more information.

Image Repository

No information yet available.

Strategy & Tactics (Doctrine)

The volume requirement of jump drive fuel has not escaped military theorists, who have employed strategies not employing jump drives:

Picket Boat Theory (Defense, Intel)
Monitor Theory (Defense)
System Defense Boat Theory (Defense)
Battle Rider Theory (Offense)

Travel Formulae

Travelling in Charted Space: The travel formulae and diagram used by the Imperial Navy and Scout Service show a typical interplanetary journey, and equations which can determine time required (if distance and acceleration are known), acceleration required (if distance and time are known), and distance travelled (if time and acceleration are known]. All of the formulae use the MKS (meters, kilograms, seconds) unit system, and assume that the ship is undertaking a journey from rest, that it accelerates continuously to midpoint of the trip, and then decelerates to rest again. ^[1]

History & Background (Dossier)

There is no question that a starship equipped with an FTL jump drive is vastly more capable than a spaceship limited to intrasystemic travel so why use them? The simple, direct answer is cost. Jump drives are prohibitively expensive and require advanced technology to maintain and operate. An interstellar polity can typically afford to operate several spaceships for every starship it employs.

Expected Technological Progression of Spaceship Development

Rocket → Aircraft → Shuttle → Spaceplane → G-Carrier → Advanced G-Carrier → Interstellar Spacecraft → Starcraft

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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Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science

↑ Don Perrin. Starships (Imperium Games, 1996), 4.Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 4.Marc Miller, Robert Eaglestone, Don McKinney. Starships (Far Future Enterprises, 2019), 4.Thomas L. Bont, Robert Prior, Christopher Thrash. Starships (Steve Jackson Games, 2003), 4.

[1] Don Perrin. Starships (Imperium Games, 1996), 4.Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 4.Marc Miller, Robert Eaglestone, Don McKinney. Starships (Far Future Enterprises, 2019), 4.Thomas L. Bont, Robert Prior, Christopher Thrash. Starships (Steve Jackson Games, 2003), 4.

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 * [[System Defense Boat]] Theory (Defense)
 * [[Battle Rider]] Theory (Offense)
+=== Travel Formulae ===
+'''Travelling in Charted Space:''' The travel formulae and diagram used by the [[Imperial Navy]] and [[Scout Service]] show a typical interplanetary journey, and equations which can determine time required (if distance and acceleration are known), acceleration required (if distance and time are known), and distance travelled (if time and acceleration are known]. All of the formulae use the MKS (meters, kilograms, seconds) unit system, and assume that the [[ship]] is undertaking a journey from rest, that it accelerates continuously to midpoint of the trip, and then decelerates to rest again. {{Page cite|name= Starships|page=4}}
+[[File: Trav-Travel-Formulas.jpg|800px]]
 == History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
 There is no question that a starship equipped with an [[FTL]] [[jump drive]] is vastly more capable than a spaceship limited to intrasystemic travel so why use them? The simple, direct answer is cost. [[Jump drive]]s are prohibitively expensive and require advanced [[technology]] to maintain and operate. An interstellar [[polity]] can typically afford to operate several spaceships for every [[starship]] it employs.
-=== Expected Spaceship Development Sequence ===
+=== Expected Technological Progression of Spaceship Development ===
-No information yet available.
+* [[Rocket]] → [[Aircraft]] → [[Shuttle]] → [[Spaceplane]] → [[G-Carrier]] → Advanced G-Carrier → [[Interstellar Spacecraft]] → [[Starcraft]]
 == References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==