Ok so the next section will illustrate how the USCM is repurposing some of the good ideas in the older Milwalkee plan.

So vessels fall into two distinct types, with further subdivisions within type.

Primary or Ancillary

The difference between the two however is Primary vessels are those designed to operate in space independently of some other structure be it a ship, base or other structure. Ancillary vessels are designed to be operated out of or in tandem with another structure, ship or base.

Once you have chosen that, each type breaks down into twelve Primary subtypes and 9 Ancillary ones as illustrated in the following tables. These subtypes unlike Milwalkee/MNP provide modifiers to SMPC values rather then encoding hard limits on crew size and technology options.

EG - If a Generation has a baseline of a Medium Exploratory of 1000 cubic km’s of space as a cruiser. A large space frame might have 1500 cubic Km’s of space making it an explorer and a small frigate might have 500 cubic km’s of space (values are speculatory just for explanation purposes only)

Note: The following tables don’t have relevant mechanical data in them, there’s just no way to represent this cleanly, expanded tables with mechanically relevant tables will be in Chapter 2.

Primary Vessels

Ancillary Vessels