scout ship
Small surveillance craft
A scout ship is a small, fast vessel designed for reconnaissance rather than combat.
In naval contexts, scout ships historically gathered intelligence on enemy positions and movements.
The term appears most often in science fiction, where scout ships explore unknown regions of space, survey planets, or report back to a larger fleet: The scout ship dropped out of hyperspace at the edge of the system.
- reconnaissanceInformation-gathering before action
- deep spaceRemote regions beyond planets
- probeThorough examination or tool
- patrolRegular surveillance route
- long rangeCovering vast distances
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- Fictional Vehiclesstarship, mothership, Battlestar Galactica, Millennium Falcon, Borg cube
- spacecraftspacecraft, starships, spaceship, Voyager 1, Voyager 2
- Space RPGstarships, space travel, aliens, planets, interstellar travel
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Armored naval capital vessel
dreadnought · capital ship · ship of the line · warship · superdreadnought
scout shipflagship
Commander's principal vessel
command ship · supply ship · troop transport · hospital ship · tender
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