CT Only: Imperial Ship Prefixes

[Shadow Shack]

What are the prefix designations for the various Imperium contracted vessels (i.e. navy and scout service ships)?

Re: something to the effect of INV (Imperial Naval Vessel) InsertShipNameHere and ISS (Imperial Scout Ship) InsertShipNameHere...or more to the point, if Star Trek's 'USS Enterprise' was in the scout service or Imperial navy, what would each branch replace the 'USS' part with?

If there is no CT reference, please let me know what another system employs.

 

[whulorigan]

What are the prefix designations for the various Imperium contracted vessels (i.e. navy and scout service ships)?

Re: something to the effect of INV (Imperial Naval Vessel) InsertShipNameHere and ISS (Imperial Scout Ship) InsertShipNameHere...or more to the point, if Star Trek's 'USS Enterprise' was in the scout service or Imperial navy, what would each branch replace the 'USS' part with?

If there is no CT reference, please let me know what another system employs.

Canon:
INS - Imperial Navy Ship
ISS - Imperial Scout ship
TGS - Trade Guild Ship


GURPS Traveller: Starports (Front Cover - Flight Jackets):
IMV (= Imperial/Interstellar Merchant Vessel ??)


GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars (p.4 Terran Battlecruiser):
TCS - Terran Confederation Ship


FASA:
ISCV - Interstellar Commercial Vessel
ISPMV - Interstellar Para-Military Vessel
ZISMV - Zhodani Interstellar Military Vessel

 

[Garnfellow]

Where does "TGS" show up? (Other than 30 Rock.) I'm pretty interested in the Trader's Guild.

Martin J. Dougherty's Shadow of the Storm uses the prefix CSS, presumably "Confederation Star Ship" for Solomani Confederation Navy ships.

GURPS Far Trader uses the prefix SS for merchant ships, but the "Important Terms and Concepts" chapter of Agent of the Imperium specifically notes that "Civilian Shipping in the Third Imperium is generally not given a prefix." Personally I like IMV too much not to use it for merchant ships engaged in cross-border trade with the Solomani Confederation.

 

[Shadow Shack]

Canon:
INS - Imperial Navy Ship
ISS - Imperial Scout ship
TGS - Trade Guild Ship

Thanks, looks like I was pretty close.

 

[whulorigan]

Where does "TGS" show up? (Other than 30 Rock.) I'm pretty interested in the Trader's Guild.

T5 Starship Deck Plans Set: TGS Beowulf.

 

[McPerth]

FUlly not canon,

IMTU there are two more:

ITS: Independent Trade Ship (free traders)
SMS: StarMerc Ship (licenced starmercs)

 

[jcrocker]

Here's what Wikipedia lists for just one planet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix

I'm sure most of them don't see much use, but as long as you can come up with a rationale for it, you could have just about anything as a prefix.

I'm going to start using Deneb Motor Vessel. The DMV Reliable.

 

[Condottiere]

Paramilitarized ships might add in the letter A for auxiliary or armed.

 

[whartung]

ZISMV - Zhodani Interstellar Military Vessel

Boy, that just rolls off the tongue, is it shorter in Zhodani?

 

[robject]

Boy, that just rolls off the tongue, is it shorter in Zhodani?

Probably something like Zishmivli. Ha!

 

[whulorigan]

FASA:
ZISMV - Zhodani Interstellar Military Vessel

Boy, that just rolls off the tongue, is it shorter in Zhodani?

My guess would be that the above is an Imperial designation for a foreign vessel, as I doubt the Zhodani would add the designator "Zhodani" to the prefix of their own vessels.

(Perhaps "Consular", presuming the Zhodani natively use prefixes at all).