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SDB Class names

Garnfellow

SOC-13
Peer of the Realm
The iconic Guardian-class, 400 ton SDB from Traders and Gunboats was a TL12 design.

The MT Imperial Encyclopedia has a 400-ton SDB but designed at TL15. I swore this configuration had its own distinct class name, but I can't seem to find it. As I recall it only showed up a couple of times in fairly obscure places.

Anyone remember remember this?
 
Found it: the "Relative Size Chart for Selected MegaTraveller Starships," p. 58 of DGP's Starship Operator's Manual (1988) provides class names for a series of classic starships.

Super obscure -- it appears that the GURPS Traveller designers were the only ones to pick up on this reference and incorporate these names into subsequent work.

The class name for the TL15 SDB in Imperial Encyclopedia, then, is presumably . . . Dragon.
 
GT Starships has:
Bandersnatch GTL9, TTL9-12
Dragon GTL10, TTL12-13
Wyvern GTL11, TTL-14
Wyvern GTL 12, TTL-15

The Dragon has a variant that uses heavier lasers instead of the mixed armament.
 
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