List of Voidcraft Types

This is a **list of voidcraft types** which includes classifications of voidcraft that are currently in use. The list is separated between general classifications (largest to smallest) and and ship jobs (alphabetical) for ease of consumption or research. Not all classifications are mutually exclusive.

## Jumpships

**Jumpships** are the singular method of transporting men, equipment, supplies, and the very ships they reside within between the stars, and are painstaking endevourss just to consider building. The effort required to assemble a jumpship is nearly a miraculous feat, the resources and manpower alone required to build such a machine are staggering to begin with. Given the voidcraft's intricate machinery, function, and the delicate Gaarane's ichor needed to jump between the stars without disappearing between them, jumpships are considered universally sacred and are kept safe by all parties involved in their creation and sailing.

* **Other names**: jumplisser
* **Tonnage range**: 80.000.000.000–200.000.000.000 metric tons

*Examples*
* Free Jeethaja Guilds Kautarewa Shipping *Oihanamekawaisiil*-class jumpleisser

## Tallships

Carrack
The largest of the solar system-sailing subluminal vessels, carracks represent time, effort, and resources spent on the biggest money can buy. Only the most powerful logistics corporations and merchants can afford this level of transportation capacity. At present, the longest carracks reach more than 2,500 meters in length and millions of metric tons in potential profits. As crews are tasked almost solely with the actual moving cargo, the ship's compliment neednt be more than one-hundred souls for ship operations, maintenance, and specialist ratings.
* **Other names**: galleon/galley, dormon
* **Tonnage range**: 60.000.000–80.000.000 metric tons

Barque
*Also **barq**, **barqentine** , **bark**, or **barkentine***
Barques are the second largest and numerous of the tow-driven voidcraft. Too large to be brigs and too small to be carracks, barques continue the tradition of being a vague, large vessel that changes between common design choices that the larger and smaller classifications usually employ. Regardless, barques are an expensive choice for logistic companies that will eventually pay for themselves when brigs are too small to help grow their business.
* **Other names**: xebec
* **Tonnage range**: 40.000.000–60.000.000 metric tons

Brig
The smallest tow-drive ship available, brigs are the most affordable and numerous of tallship designs. With the rise of more adequate military and private escort options, brigs are becoming an increasingly common sight within the well-traveled tradelanes. Their price tag is still outside of the scope of independent freelance captains and crews, but even small logistics companies are able to purchase these large vessels in twos or threes to maximize profits.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 20.000.000–40.000.000 metric tons

## Systerners

Caravel
Caravels are the largest of the systerners and push-drive voidships. Largely used as haulers (freight, ice, liquids, Gaarane condensate, etc.), these voidcraft are a rare sight among freelancer captains and crews while being overwhelmingly common when owned by a shipping corporation or company. Caravels are fast for their considerable size, capable of sustained burns that would leave smaller systerners struggling to match. Expensive for everyone but the most financially capable, caravels are perfect for corporate interests.
* **Other names**: schooner
* **Tonnage range**: 11.000.000–20.000.000 metric tons

Ketch
Unlike the jack-of-all-trades, master-of-all caravel, ketches are primarily used for dry cargo carriers, tenders, salvagemen, or bulk passenger ships. Their relative size and engine power allows them to adequately service their roles or those who book ketches' passage. Ketches are most often in the hands of large companies or freelance captains and crew who are long-standing and now have a ship that confirms their wealth and prowess.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 5.000.000–11.000.000 metric tons

Cutter
Cutters are the most common civilian voidship seen throughout the Sphere. Fast, relatively cheap, and possessing the most wide-ranging working keels to work a surprising amount of vessel roles, cutters are the pride of independent crews everywhere. Though their price is a steal for companies, corporate interests find that ships with tonnage below that of the ketch to be a waste of resources leaving the market largely open for non-company contracted sailors and caelmen.
* **Other names**: scow, settee
* **Tonnage range**: 3.500.000–5.000.000 metric tons

Sloop
Sloops are a class almost entirely dedicated to cargo hauling. They are sturdy ships with reliable propulsion subsystems, capable of delivering crew and cargo to their destinations safely. This no-nonsense voidship is a favorite amongst crews that don't like taking unnecessary risks and largely are run with that notion in mind. Sloops are widely available and easily affordable to captains and/or crew who can secure financial backing. There is a special interest in institutions of learning who value their tenacious keels and overall internal capability, converting old storeships into research ships or explorators when able.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 1.000.000–3.500.000 metric tons

Lugger
Despite the title, luggers are not primarily a hauling vessel, more suited for specialist ships such as research ships, explorators, and deep space rescue vessels. Because of their general specialist-application nature, luggers are some of the most expensive systerner hulls one could commission. This custom-order attitude by shipwrights allows degrees of flexibility when laying down the keel commissioners desire.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 550.000–1.000.000 metric tons

## Small Voidcraft

Clipper
Clippers are the fastest multi-crew vessels on the market. Used first and foremost as rescue ships and packetships, clippers provide expedient service where it is needed. These quick ships are known for their hulls being or around a 50% split between propulsion systems and fuel, and cargo and crew areas. Though most packetships are filled to bursting with electronic media storage, some clippers may be commissioned to deliver physical packages requiring priority shipping.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 200.000–550.000 metric tons

Yawl
Of the small voidcraft, yawls are either kings and queens of the super and mega yacht, or are the small system runner that ferries people and products two and fro. As yachts designed for a single family or a small set of families of the ultra wealthy, yawls may be compared to privately-owned sky scrapers with every need met during interplanetary travel. As workhorses of the system, yawls are the third-most purchased ship by freelancers and independents, capable of doing its job while leaving enough money to cover necessary initial expenses.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 80.000–200.000 metric tons

Felucca
Felucca are by and large passenger or courier voidcraft. While some rich people look to the felucca as a potential yacht, the felucca shines as a fast voidleisser and inter-langrange point ferries, able to get several hundred passengers from point A to point B with relative ease for the cost in propellant and supplies. In the same vein, felucca provide incredibly fast deliveries of digital and physical packages with little concern to being preyed upon by pirates and rapscallions.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 44.000–80.000 metric tons

Dropship
While also the largest vertical-takeoff single-stage to orbit (VT-SSTO) voidcraft, dropships are also capable of interplanetary travel. These vessels are built like all voidcraft (as if a skyscraper) and resemble the skiff, but with far more capacity for transport. Dropships are capable of large interplanetary and transorbital cargo conveyance whether it be dry or liquid cargos. The super-wealthy often purchase dropships as means of private interplanetary and transorbital travel, their robust nature providing natural safety for their vast and expensive possessions. They are obvious 'soft targets,' unfortunately, and their loss represents more than just a destroyed transport but the lives of every passenger aboard as well. To avoid the tragic loss of such vessels, dropships do incredibly well with military or paramilitary escorts.
* **Other names**: landing ship, lander
* **Tonnage range**: 16.000—44.000 metric tons

## Shallowcraft

Barge
A barge is a payload bearing littoral craft that is more "cargo hold with ion thrusters attached." Barges are mostly operated by remote pilot, human or shiildr, and gently guided to transfer cargo from one location to another. Often times, these bulky platforms are used as staging areas for grappler tugs and lighters to deliver freight onto awaiting nearby tallships.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 18.000—30.000 metric tons

Tug
The littoral workhorse of any harbor, tugs have a long and storied history under use by humans and shiildr. These sturdy vessels are capable of moving the largest vessels into place or manipulating grappling arms to phyisically move freight from one storage medium to another. Tugs are captained and helmed by the most experienced harbor coxswain stellar platforms can employ, and getting one's tug certification is tantamount to being rich for the rest of their days; these certifications only come after thousands of hours behind the sticks of a training tug and years of apprenticeship are met.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 5.000—23.000 metric tons

Pramm
Pramms are ferries used in littoral capacities, moving large quantities of people from one platform to another with very little fanfare. Longer voyages often provide food for purchase, though the quality of the service and the food varies with the price of the fare. Unfortunately, pramms are not the fastest in the littoral fleet with the overwhelming intention to bring passengers to their destinations safely rather than quickly.
* **Other names**: schuyt, wherry
* **Tonnage range**: 8.000—15.000 metric tons

Runner
*Also **runabout***
Smaller, lighter, and faster than the pramm, runners are the primary method of passenger travel. These advantages come with a reduced passenger carrying capacity as well as the supplies necessary to sustain both crew and passenger. Runners are some of the most-produced and bought voidcraft working either in a littoral or interplanetary capacity.
* **Other names**: pinnace, catboat, bawley, jaegt
* **Tonnage range**: 1.100—8.000 metric tons

## Transorbitals

Also known as **orbital runners** or **runnercraft**.

Lighter
Lighters are VT-SSTO voidcraft defined by their capability of lifting great quantities of bulk goods between orbital and terrestrial destinations. Lighters are not only used for transorbital conveyance, they are also used as inter-vessel or cargo transfer from vessel to stellar platform. They are dedicated cargo transport of all kinds and are most often seen billeted on larger systernners like ketches or caravels, tallships, and jumpships as it requires a mothership to be ferried between interplanetary and interstellar locations.
* **Other names**: bulk lander/conveyor
* **Tonnage range**: 9.000—16.000 metric tons

Skiff
As the smallest VT-SSTO voidcraft in the Sphere, skiffs are capable of lifting personnel, equipment, and supplies between oribtal and terrestrial destinations. Skiffs require mothership to be ferried between interplanetary locations, however, as their engines and fuel tanks restrict it to grueling transorbital or stellar hauling between a ship and the port its anchored away from.
* **Other names**: *none*
* **Tonnage range**: 7.000—9.000 metric tons

Dropboat
Dropboats are SSTO voidcraft generally defined by delta-wing designs and trans-atmospheric operation used to transport personnel, equipment, and supplies between orbital and surface sites. Dropboats, without exception, require mothership to be ferried between interplanetary locations. Because of its aerodynamic design, it is able to enter the atmosphere of a planet and fly toward its destination. Despite dropboats commonly possessing tilt-turbine vertical takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) engines for tight landings and takeoffs, they are not capable of the same sort of vertical lift that push drive skiffs, bulk conveyors, and dropships have when ascending into orbit and beyond.
* **Other names**: superlift space plane, shuttle-boat
* **Tonnage range**: 2.000—7.000 metric tons

Shuttle
Shuttles are like their dropboat cousins in that they are SSTO voidcraft and are, generally, possess VTOL tilt-jet turbine engines and are defined by delta-wing designs. Trans-atmospheric in nature, shuttles are used to transport small amounts of personnel, equipment, and/or supplies between orbital and surface sites. Shuttles require, without exception, a mothership to be ferried between interplanetary locations. Because of its aerodynamic design, it is able to enter the atmosphere of a planet and fly toward its destination. Despite dropboats commonly possessing tilt-turbine vertical takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) engines for tight landings and takeoffs, they are not capable of the same sort of vertical lift that push drive skiffs, bulk conveyors, and dropships have when ascending into orbit and beyond.
* **Other names**: space plane, awayboat
* **Tonnage range**: 800—2.000 metric tons