Clipper ship

Clipper Ship

 general presumably human terran term describing a civilian space ship that runs a pre determined traffic line between two or more destinations with a focus on speedy transportation.

The term is so common and is used for so long that there are shipping lines offring Clipper ship service and ship building companies offering special clipper ships.

Once there was technically no difference between a line runner, line cruiser , or cruise ship and a Clipper ship.

Now a Clipper ship is a distinct class and type.

A Clipper ship is defined to be generally smaller than a line cruiser and with less compfort but with great emphasis on speed and range.

Since about 3800 there are so called Fast Clipper ships and passenger lines offering fast clipper connections.

Clipper and Fast Clipper ships usually serve planets that are not connected to the Space Train network or the Long Range Trans Matter tunnel network.[1]

In general all Class B space ports offer Clipper and Fast Clipper connections to major Union Traffic hubs and destinations.

There are many Clipper Line Operators and companies. Clipper Lines and Fast Clipper Lines are supervised and controlled by a Industry Self Control Association ( Clipper Line Providers Association )

This association bestows a an annual Seal of Qualtity control, measuring reliability, speed of service, passenger satisfaction and other Key performance indicators. While there are non associated Clipper Line providers, they never operate from Union Class B ports.

Clipper ship captains, crews and operators consider themselves an elite among civilian spacers and take great pride in “running” fast. Annual competitions with awards are held to determine who is the fastest service.

This in turn these are show case events for Clipper ship manufacturers.

Currently and for many years in a row Samuel Morgan Lines of Blue Moon is the largest, best and fastest line, holding the Blue Moon – Para Para line record for over 200 years.



The image shows the SML Blue Bird a 600 meter Fast Clipper leaving Para Para

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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">[1] Only the Core worlds Luxor, Theben, Alexandria, SPQR, Rome, New Pompeij, Sol Hub, Sares Hub, Pluribus, Blue Moon, Ross 132 and Ulta are currently connected to the LRTM network. The Space Train network is more extensive but still only connects about 5% of Union systems directly. While the Space Bus network reaches 99.98 % of all Union destinationsm it is neither compfortable nor fast.

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