Small Craft

Description

All large spacecraft in the BattleTech universe fall in the category of either JumpShip, DropShip, Space Station, or Small Craft. The latter describes any spaceworthy vessel of 100 to 200 tons mass that can be docked inside a small craft hangar bay.

There are literally hundreds of different types of small craft in operation throughout the Inner Sphere and Periphery. Many, but not all, are capable of atmospheric operations. Small Craft range from shuttles and long-range craft. The K-1 DropShuttle, although built using Small Craft rules, nearly meets the criteria for a DropShip as it sports a docking collar and sits at the maximum tonnage for Small Craft and minimum for DropShips.

Manufacturing

Small Craft are manufactured on the following planets:

Brand	Planet	Company
K-1 DropShuttle	Luthien	BBP Industries
K-1 DropShuttle	Layover	Sacrado Industries
K-1 DropShuttle	Mackenzie	Brigadier Corporation
K-1 DropShuttle	Skye	Shipil Company
KR-61 (Long-range shuttlecraft)	Ingersoll	Aldis Industries
KR-61 (Long-range shuttlecraft)	Delavan	Dynamico Limited
KR-61 (Long-range shuttlecraft)	Dalton	Nimakachi Fusion Products Limited
KR-61 (Long-range shuttlecraft)	Gibbs	Lockheed-CBM Corporation
Mark VII (Landing craft)	Sian	Saroyan Special Projects
Mark VII (Landing craft)	Dover	Hinsdale Elec
Mark VII (Landing craft)	Skye	Shipil Company
NL-42 "Battle Taxi"	Outreach	Blackwell Heavy Industries
S-7A (Bus)	Ares	Earthwerks Limited
S-7A (Bus)	Chatham	Taurus Territorial Industries
S-7A (Bus)	Layover	Sacrado Industries
S-7A (Bus)	Mackenzie	Brigadier Corporation
S-7A (Bus)	Skye	Shipil Company
S-7A (Bus)	Sterope	Taurus Territorial Industries
ST-46 (Shuttle)	Dover	Hinsdale Elec
ST-46 (Shuttle)	Delavan	Dynamico Limited
ST-46 (Shuttle)	Atreus	Deller-Bingham-Fouts
ST-46 (Shuttle)	Gibbs	Lockheed-CBM Corporation
ST-46 (Shuttle)	St. Ives	Tengo Aerospace
ST-46 (Shuttle)	Illiushin	Vandenberg Mechanized Industries
TIG-15 Tigress Close Patrol Craft (Gunship)	Illiushin	Vandenberg Mechanized Industries

References

• "Small Craft", Total Warfare, (Chicago: FanPro, 2006), 24.
• Technical Readout: 3057