Type JL class Espionage Vessel

Type JL class Espionage Vessel
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Type: SIS Espionage Vessel
Category	ACS
Size	200 Tons
Hull Configuration	Wedge Hull
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–15
Engineering
Computer	Model/3 Fib
Jump	J-3
Maneuver	3 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	2
Accommodations
Staterooms	0
Personnel
Crew	5
Officers	2
Enlisted	3
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	40.0 (540 kliters) Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Third Imperium
Year Operational	Unknown
End of Service	Still in active service.
Price
Cost	MCr117.352
Architect fee	MCrWilliam W. Connors
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	SIS-BS33
Images
Blueprint	No
Illustration	No
Source
Also see	Scout Vessel
Canon	Published, fan design
Era	1105
Reference	The Travellers' Digest 17 21.
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard.

The Type JL class Espionage Vessel is an intelligence starship.

• It is a paramilitary ship and a Espionage Vessel.

Description (Specifications)

It is a vessel with 3-G and J-3 performance with a streamlined wedge hull.

• It carries light armament and a very powerful, advanced military defensive suite.
• It ordinarily carries one subcraft, no ship's vehicles, and drones only when needed.
• It has a 5 sophont crew and no marines.

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EL-AHRAIRAHII: In order to allow its agents to move freely throughout the Domain of Deneb, the Order of the White Star has commissioned half a dozen vessels. They are designed so as to pass for typical type-A free traders, though they are actually sophisticated craft intended for the multitude of covert missions which the White Star undertakes.

El-Ahrairah's electromagnetic masking is designed to make the craft look like a typical free trader to outside scans. Only when she is clearly not behaving like a mundane craft (i.e., running for a jump point at 3 gravities) is her true nature apparent. The ship's transponder can be altered to provide false identification of the vessel with little effort.

Image Repository

1. An top down image of a Beowulf class Free Trader, one of the most common Type A class Free Trader variants. In this case, it is really a Type JL class Espionage Vessel camouflaged as a Free Trader.
   
2. Q-Ship, Spy Ship, or Free Trader?
   

General Description & Deck Plans

No information yet available.

Basic Ship Characteristics

Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (...of ten subcraft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (...thousands of tons) where necessary.

Basic Ship Characteristics
No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage / Hull	200 tons. Streamlined Wedge Hull.
2.	Crew	x5 crew.
3.	Performance / Engineering	Propulsion: Jump-3 3-G acceleration Power Plant-T (1,260 MW) 5.25-EPs Agility-3
4.	Main Section / Electronics	Model/3 fib ship computer.
5.	Hardpoints	x2 hardpoints.
6.	Armament / Weaponry	The normal weapons fit-out for it is: Lasers: x1 pulse laser Energy Weapons: None Particle Accelerators: None Meson Guns: None Missiles: x1 pop-up double Missile Racks Other: None
7.	Defenses	Defensive Equipment: Ship Armors: None Meson Screens: None Nuclear Dampers: None Repulsors: None Other: x1 Sandcaster
8.	Craft / Drones	x1 subcraft
9.	Fuel Treatment	Fueling Equipment: 73.6 tons of fuel. (994 kliters) x2 Fuel Scoops Fuel Treatment Plant (12 hours)
10.	Cost	MCr117.352
11.	Construction Time	12 months to build, 9 months in quantity.
12.	Remarks	Other Equipment: Cargo Bay: Standard cargo capacity amounts to 40.0 tons. Ship's Locker

History & Background (Dossier)

Intelligence vessels are often converted from run-of-the-mill tramp vessels or liners to blend in with conventional traffic on the trade lanes. A vessel like this would be inconspicuous in many locations throughout Charted Space.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities: The vessel is noted for its very powerful electronic warfare and sensor suites. They are very capable and top of the line. It is rumored to have special, experimental psionic equipment.

Class Naming Practice/s: In keeping with the conventions employed by free traders, these ships are named for mythological characters, specifically those known for stealth, cunning, and deception. The vessels assigned to operatives has been renamed El-ahrairah, a name most suited to this type of ship.

The name means "Enemies-Thousand-Prince" or "Prince with a Thousand Enemies" and is believed to be a mythical trickster "Rabbit" totem from ancient Terran myths.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Paramilitary Vessel - Scout Vessel - Stealth Scout:

1. Type SIS class Covert Scout
   1. Gishiash class Stealth Scout
   2. Lake class Surveillance Vessel
   3. S-223 Moon Raven class Covert Surveillance Scout
   4. Type JL class Espionage Vessel

References & Contributors (Sources)

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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.

• Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), 20-37. (Design Sequence Used)
• Gary L. Thomas, Joe Fugate. "Psionic Knights." The Travellers' Digest 17 (1989): 21.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science