title: Falling Star: Misadventures of White Star Line Ships
author: John P. Eaton
description: Great book covering the history and adventures of the famed White Star Line....of course, including the Titanic.
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  Luxuriating in the unfailing light of countless stars, the Trade Federation
  freighter _Revenue_ lazed at the edge of Dorvalla’s veil of alabaster clouds.
  
  
  Indistinguishable from its myriad brethren, the freighter resembled a saucer,
  whose center had been pared away to create two massive hangar arms and a
  stalked centersphere that housed the great ship’s hyperdrive reactors.
  Forward, the curving arms fell short of each other, as if in a failed attempt
  to close the circle. But, in fact, the gap was there by design, with each arm
  terminating in colossal docking claws and gaping hangar portals.
  
  
  Like some gluttonous beast, a Trade Federation vessel didn’t so much load as
  gobble cargo, and for close to three standard days, the _Revenue_ had been
  feeding at Dorvalla.
  
  
  The outlying planet’s principal commodity was lommite ore, a major component
  in the production of transparisteel viewports and starfighter canopies.
  Ungainly transports ferr