The Orchid has announced that the DDS are to try a new revenue stream and raise funds through corporate sponsorship and other commercial tie-ups. Central to the new initiative will be the renaming of ships in return for sponsorship money. A DDS spokesman said that D101 Panther was to be renamed D101 Euro Telecom. The Terran communications company paying 320 million zarks for the priviledge. D102 Jaguar is set to be renamed D102 Televisions Direct and a number of other ships have already been renamed.
From the bridge of her flagship C126 Femfresh The Orchid said that corporate sponsorship could raise the DDS billions. "We are also selling naming rights to future conflicts. The first example will be the forthcoming war which from now on shall be known as the Kraft Foods Bolitic War."
