Designed by the highly-esteemed Esteemed Starship Emporium and Construction Yard, the current model year of the long-running Esteemed Performance Yacht includes one new feature. Replacing last year's experiment with ion drives, this year the line includes top of the line solar sails acquired from the Lissonian Treeholds. As usual, internal fuel stores are minimal, and the Emporium recommends use of the stock-provided external stores tanks to increase flight time.

The all-terrain vehicle, which includes a wide variety of designs, uses three or four wheels for movement, resulting in a slower land speed but greater safety than other one-person utility vehicles.  Intended to handle a wide variety of terrain, and with maintenance and repairs easier than floating vehicles, the all-terrain vehicle has remained popular even with advances in technology over the years. Modern versions use high-power electric motors with large enough batteries for full-day operation.

Designed during the Resource Wars as a multirole ground transportation vehicle designed to tackle an ever-expanding range of combat theaters, the ATMTU exists in various models which all follow the same general pattern - wheeled propulsion for use over most terrain, and a deployable hovercraft skirt for use crossing water that is too deep to be forded, or terrain that would be difficult for the vehicle to cross on wheels, such as shifting sands. Originally a military vehicle, it has since become available to the general public as well.

Still the most popular form of ground transportation in the Terran Alliance.  Internal combustion engines may have given way to electric motors, but wheels still propel the vehicle forward. Although slower than airspeeders, and far more prone to mechanical failure, groundcars remain popular due to the fact that they are comparatively cheap. The standard models are intended for paved roads, but a common modification to the suspension and tires enables a groundcar to be driven off-road. Military versions of this exist, usually with a top-mounted cannon (3d10 damage, no autofire, uses the unused emplacement point)

The medivac is designed to serve as both a mobile medical center and as a protective vehicle in hazardous environments. Equipped standard with cutting-edge medical sensors, capable of detecting and analyzing hazards such as airborne diseases and the presence of radiation, it is an updated version of the medical choppers that saw prevalent use during the Resource Wars and Third World War. Characters inside a medivac are considered to be immune to airborne hazards (such as a inhaled poisons and disease) and to radiation from sources outside the vehicle. Furthermore, the vehicle's internal atmosphere regulation system grants characters inside the vehicle a +5 equipment bonus to Fortitude Defense against attack rolls made by airborne diseases and poisons the characters have not yet been affected by. The medivac relies on atmosphere for lift and its engines, so it cannot reach orbital altitude.

The microweight is a simple glider that uses a small, quiet engine to provide power, and a set of folding wings with a 4-meter wingspan for control. Microweights are popular sport craft, and many luxury resorts provide rentals in scenic areas such as oceanside cliffs and canyons. When folded, the microweight is the size of a large backpack, and it takes 1 full round to extend or retract the wings. Because it depends on the engine for much of its lift, it can only operate for 1 hour before its standard power pack must be replaced.

Paragliders are sturdier and more aerodynamic than microweights, using smaller engines that assist only in takeoffs, landings, and difficult maneuvers. As a result, they have a far higher operational ceiling and can function for nearly indefinite periods of time. Paragliders are popular with more serious recreational flyers. Its possible to modify a paraglider for military purposes by increasing the strength of its engine, adding straps for weapons, or covering the wings with sensor-baffling materials (which cause a -5 penalty on any check to detect the paraglider using sensors). All of these changes can be made as a single modification for 1,000 credits. Extra sensors such as electrobinoculars are also often added, though doing this costs little more than the expense of the device added.

This craft functions both as a rapid-deployment aerial assault vehicle and as a patrol craft, and is used by both the Army and Marines. Commonplace fleet hangar bays, the RAV features an ablative armor coating used to protect the craft during rapid atmospheric deployment. When descending in this fashion, the RAV travels at a speed of 6 squares (starship scale) and boasts a shield rating of 30 with an additional +2 armor. Once the craft had completed atmospheric entry, it lost these bonuses, having burned away its re-entry plating and diverted power to its engines. The RAV is equipped with one of the lightest railguns currently in the arsenal, designed to take out enemy armor emplacements and turrets, while its dual gatling cannon turret and NanoMissile system are used for defense or in an anti-infantry capacity. Some desperate naval officers have deployed the vehicles as a last-ditch defensive gambit during losing space battles, using them as a static fighter screen. Of course, these craft were unable to move in space, but they could use their positional thrusters to turn.

The skimboard is a form of personal transport which allows the rider (usually a single character) to hover above the ground. The board utilized a series of inertial fields and microengines to propel the device along at a flight ceiling of around one meter (though with questionable modifications, this could be more than doubled). Though balance was an important key to remaining on the board, the rider was also held in place by adhesive lines of goo called stick-strips. The board was operated via a series of foot controls at the rear, which could be used to regulate the power flow between the engines and fields for maximum maneuverability.

Many ships that are not designed as exploration vessels are converted into scouting ships. The Anders-class is among the most successful and enduring of such conversions, the first conversion having been done in 2023 for the first Alpha Centauri Scouting Mission. Originally designed and built as a yacht, it is a top-of-the-line personal transport, featuring dual engines and a forward-swept along with a lifting body fuselage, which provides exemplary speed and handling for a civilian leisure craft. The Anders-class's wings fold approximately halfway along their span, allowing it to land at smaller pads.

The logical evolution of the standard scout, the Byrd-class is another conversion of a luxury yacht to a scouting vessel. In addition the armament of the standard scout, it mounts a light railgun that the pilot can use. Only a few Byrd-class scouts have been created so far, but the ease with which they can be converted means that it is logical there will be more conversions done in the future, unless the Shackleton-class proves to be more effective.

The Shackleton-class was designed in response to the need for a scout ship that could spend as much time in the field as the Byrd class, but was stronger and more likely to survive encounters with unforeseen circumstances. Unlike the previous Anders and Byrd classes, the Shackleton class was not a redesign of a private yacht (thought unlike the Anders and Byrd classes it is actually amphibious and therefore essentially an actual naval yacht), and is instead a new design, built from the ground up.

The Hecate-class is a derivative of the Janus-class, produced on an as-requested basis.  Unlike the stock Janus-class, which removed the original Janus's fourth deck, the Hecate-class retains the fourth deck as room for after-market modifications.  Beyond this, the major difference between the Hecate-class and the Janus-class is that the Hecate-class has a radically different layout on the upper deck.  Numerous systems that are in the upper deck on the Janus-class are instead located in the lower (fourth) deck, and the space they would have occupied is instead configured as a single-craft hangar bay, capable of holding 1 vessel of up to Gargantuan size.  The Hecate class is easily distinguished from the Janus-class due to the addition of two vertical control surfaces which aid in the maneuvering of the vessel when in an atmosphere, in addition to the overall larger profile of the vehicle.

The Hermes class is an outgrowth of the Janus-class Runabouts, albeit one missing the entire middeck.  The Higgs Drives and power systems are top of the line, and extended to take up almost the entirety of the lower deck.  The remaining 1/4 of the lower deck now holds the Pilot/Engineer's quarters.  The Stover Drive systems are also upgraded, now extending two thirds of the way towards the cockpit on the upper deck.  The remaining third of the distance is a cargo hold, capable of being converted to a single-person passenger quarter if needed.  Between this hold and the cockpit are the wirehead's quarters, the wirehead interface tank, and a small galley. There is no lift system on the Hermes-class, only a series of ladders.

The Janus-class Runabout is based off of the design used for the Janus, the civilian experimental testbed craft used to test many of the systems now commonplace on Terran Alliance spaceships. Potentially lightly armed, moderately armored, and with a triple-deck design, it was intended for use for a range of military applications, but it also sees use in the private sector as a private yacht or transport vessel. More than a few Janus-class Runabouts have been sold for civilian use, but for the most part those that are sold off are sold disarmed aside from an AI-Controlled Pulse Laser Array for self-defense purposes - obtaining and maintaining a weapons load-out permit is a very difficult chore.

Pizzuto Industries has been releasing new models of personal interplanetary spacecraft under its PS-Series line since late 2020. These are representative of the 'middle of the road' class of civilian personal spacecraft, able to travel farther than an in-system shuttle (which usually lacks the capability to travel from planet to planet), but still being unable to travel at FTL speeds under their own power. Commonly used by bounty hunters, wealthy corporate managers, and celebrities, these craft are a common sight at civilian spaceports across the Terran Alliance.

The logical evolution of the concepts developed by the Interplanetary Shuttle, the Wayfarer-class medium transport occupies the space between the Courier and Runabout classes, and the large interstellar freighters such as the Leviathan and Praetor-classes. Of course, the design has been altered from the truss-based framework of the Interplanetary Shuttle to one that can withstand FTL flight. Payload modules can be attached and detached from the vessel as needed. This modular design enables a Wayfarer to load a passenger section, hangar module, or cargo module, depending on what is needed at the time. A Wayfarer features powerful engines that give the vessel surprisingly good speed, which led to its adoption as the standard private-sector interstellar shipping vessel.