The Coril-B (or Coril 2110) was a reverse engineered and modernised version of the Tarbotian Coril shuttle which the DDS had ordered to replace it's crumbling Coril fleet. However DDS/HCS tensions have now led to the Cloneworld company Space Investments being forced to cancel the DDS order (by order of HCS GHQ). The prototype was due to begin testing next month.
This leaves the DDS in a bad situation as the remaining fleet of 10 Corils are due to be withdrawn by the end of next year. The DDS have therefore decided to reverse-engineer their own Coril! A DDS spokeswoman said that the DDS had already looked into the project before but had decided not to proceed because of the Clone project but now they would go full steam ahead and pledge to have a working ship by next year.
The Coril-DDS as it will be known will use a CFM WSN-865J engine which is more powerful than the Coril-B's FT101A, it thus will be able to reach 250c. The DDS was to complete the fitting out of Coril-B with avionics and defensive systems anyway so the Coril-B systems will largely be able to be used on Coril-DDS.
