2300AD Cruise lines in space

[shanksow]

Just been thinking about some non-military, non-political stuff, for the 2300ad universe and came up with the following...

What are the cruise/air lines of the future? Below, I have created some logical corporate mergers between airlines and the cruise ship business and brought them forward in time to the 24th century. Beneath each 'company', I include a few sample ship names.

1. Carnival-Continental Space Lines (CCSL). (space lines or star lines??) (Freedom & Liberty)
2. Norwegian Cruise Line and Scandinavian Airlines (NCL-SAS). (Scandinavia Star Princess & Baltic Odessey)
3. American Celebrity Starlines (ACS). (Sensation & Celebration)
4. Disney Star Cruises (DSC). (Geez, can anyone guess just what this might be called?)
5. Delta-Holland Star Cruise Lines (DHSCL). (Spirit of Memphis and Spirit of Atlantia)
6. British Air and Space Cunard Lines (BASCL). (Nassau, St. Johns, Tirane Destiny)
7. Northwestern-Princess Star Cruises (NWPSC). (Glory of the Stars, Paradise Bound)
8. P&O Starliners & Freight(P&O SLF). (P&O Inspiration, P&O Holiday)
9. Nippon Starliners (NSL). (Mutsu, Tosa)
10. Canton Orient Aerospace Lines (COAL) (Macro Polo, Kwantung)
11. Singapore Starliners(SSL) (Star of Destiny, Star of Splendor, Haifeng)
12. Pan American Starliners (PAS) (Ellis Clipper. Kingsland Clipper, Canberra Clipper)
13. Braniff-Centauri Space Lines (BCSL) (Red starliner (City of "Dallas"), Blue starliner (City of "Atlantia"), Orange starliner (City of "Denver")
14. Virgin Galactic Cruises (VGC) (Branson)

So far in 2300ad from what I remember, civilian cargo ships were almost nothing more than just tramp steamers in space. I wanted to see if I could get some more ideas along this subject matter.

Note: Numbers 12 and 13 are attempts to bring back historical companies into the 'modern era'. Hence, the Pan-Am company sticks Clipper behind every name and so far, the new Braniff with its three liners all painted up in their respective colors with a white tail fin with bold black letters "BC" painted on it.

Anthing else?

 

[TWILIGHT]

What about courier lines?

X-Mail : "Throughout the Empire, we make it Imperative!"

(This was originally "Throughout the Imperium, we make it imperative" and reads better in Danish... or for Traveller)

 

[shanksow]

X-Mail! I like it!

Sounds like that it could have been FedEx in the beginning. Probably has red, white and blue trim on their shipping containers. DHL would no doubt still be yellow with red letters and UPS (Universal Packing Services?) would still be brown.

Imagine the freighter on the cover of Colonial Atlas with these different color shipping modules attached.

To add some more companies to my original posting above, I thought about Southwest Airlines and how it could develope a offshoot for colonial tranportation. It would be Southwest Starlines. What would be interesting if there was a civilian version of the aconit class frigate that was longer, more streamlined and outfitted for passenger service.

 

[siefertma2]

4. Disney Star Cruises (DSC). (Geez, can anyone guess just what this might be called?)

U.S.S. Cygnus?

 

[TWILIGHT]

(X-Mail! I like it!

Sounds like that it could have been FedEx in the beginning)

It came from an idea prompted by the Traveller X-Boat system.

I should point out that it was part of a package of logo designs commissioned for the 2320AD rulebook (that one has yet to be claimed by Hunter & Ted).

 

[shanksow]

What about British Spaceways (LLC)? There are too many good jokes that can go with this one.

 

[epicenter00]

4. Disney Star Cruises (DSC). (Geez, can anyone guess just what this might be called?)

Actually, if you own a copy of Ships of the French Arm look up the Marseilles-class liner and you'll see a logo that is suspiciously familiar on it.