Line Ship Service

Line Ship Service

A type of travel service offered to passengers and small freight. Line Ship service differs from Clipper and Fast Clipper Service. While Clipper and Fast Clipper Services offer fast connections to usually one or perhaps two destinations that are usually within the same section of space. Line Ships run long routes and usually bridge destinations between Regions of space. The Long Liners even travel to destination across sectors. [1] Line Ships are huge and usually offer many levels of luxury and accommodations. Traditionally referred to as Decks such as: VIP Deck, A Deck, B Deck, C Deck and so forth all the way to F and G Decks with dormitory style bunks. The term Deck is an old Pre Astro Terran naval term for different floors on a ship. In large Line ships it often describes areas that span over several actual decks. The Silver Swan, cruise ship operated by Silver Lines for example uses the Deck classification for the different levels of accommodations and her C Deck is the largest passenger area spanning over 16 actual decks. And the different levels are called Floors just like a Hotel. Other ships may use color coding for the same purpose. Line Ships are sometimes shaped like “beautiful objects” : Like birds, wet keel ships, flowers, gems, tropical islands, animals or even beings (Such as the SS Desire shaped like a human woman or the Adorable Holdian of Chelkin Lines Inc.) and have gained union fame when they approach or land on a planet. Line Ships often double as Cruise Lines with passengers traveling for the pleasure of traveling and not to travel from A to B. The “shhaped ships”often run to desirable holiday, vacation and sightseeing destinations. Not all Line ships are “shaped” or have cruise ship character but the Intra Union lines usually offer at least 3 to 4 star and often Lux and Ultra Lux services. Until 3598 Line ships were also shoppers paradise as the Union Tax did not apply to wares sold in deep space. However that changed in 3599 when the Assembly declared the empty space between two Union destinations Union territory (Homogenous Space Act of 3599 –a direct response to the events of the just ended 4th Intergalactic War. [2]) Still Gambling and legal Rec Drugs are usually available once the ships is in space and has left a Star System and its possible local ordinances. [3]

[1] See Long Liners [2] The “A Union Citzien on Every rock” program was made into a priority program and also defined in a Assembly ratified Act. [3] As for 4000 The sale of legal Rec Drugs declined so much that most ships either no longer offer it or