While many warships are now equipped with worm drive and the much greater speeds facilitated, civilian ships such as spaceliners and transports are still stuck with traditional hyperspace drive and most in the 400-500c speed band. New Sparta has started to explore producing a civil version of the Pentekonter Protector platform with Consolidated Spacecraft. These could be fitted with worm drive.
NS are looking at three possible versions, a 50 berth spaceliner, a luxury VIP craft and a 120 seat short range liner (though with worm drive such a type could make very popular journeys such as Proxima Centauri to Solaris in less than a day).
The ships could be built at a new jig owned by Consolidated Spacecraft and bring in a lot of valuable income to NS. It is said that several large spacelines have already shown an interest.
