Kadsre Colossus

The Kadsre Colossus (also known as the Senta Colossus originally) is an El Kadsreian ocean liner built for the now-defunct Kadsre Pacific Lines and is currently a museum ship in El Kadsre City.

Planning and Construction
The Kadsre Colossus and the Colossus Class of ships were designed by the late Frederick Eddyson who was a renowned ship architect known for designing many famous ships of the era including the Kadsre Colossus, the vessel was laid down on August 29th, 1933, in the South River Shipyards located a couple miles east from El Kadsre City, the vessel had a nearly two yearlong construction period lasting until May 14th, 1935, when the vessel was officially christened with the original name, the Senta Colossus.

First Voyages
The Senta Colossus departed New Salta inbound for Los Angeles on May 17th, 1935, it would soon complete the voyage two days later on the 19th and would continue operating the New Salta to Los Angeles route as well as sailing to Baja California and Northwest USA.

Near Collision
On the Senta Colossus's third voyage inbound for L.A. the ocean liner nearly rammed into a smaller merchant vessel called the Orville with the accident only being prevented by the merchant vessel slamming hard to port barely avoiding a collision.

1935-1940
The Senta Colossus would continue operating voyages across the Pacific Ocean for years while in 1937 the vessel was renamed to the Kadsre Colossus as the name "Senta Colossus" began to seem too political in nature and was changed.

War Service (1942-1945)
The newly renamed Kadsre Colossus was drydocked in New Salta in 1941 as World War II was impacting travel in the Pacific and as a way to make extra cash, Kadsre Pacific Lines leased the vessel to the United States Navy who painted the Kadsre Colossus a grey color and would use the vessel as a troop ship as the Navy did with many other ocean liners at the time, the Kadsre Colossus mostly served in southeast Asia for most of the war however would sometimes fight in the northern sector.

After the War
After World War II ended in 1945 the Kadsre Colossus resumed passenger service in the Pacific Ocean however a quickly changing market in the 1950s as planes and air travel in general were being favored over the longer ocean liner crossings, this and the fact that cruising was becoming very profitable around this time lead to the Kadsre Colossus in 1953 begin operating cruises and passenger services and would continue operating this format for the next decade and a half.

Retirement for the Colossus
In 1966 it became clear to executives at Kadsre Pacific Lines that the Kadsre Colossus was showing its age as the vessel was becoming not as profitable as it once was, at first the company planned to send the Colossus to the scrapyard however realizing and fearing a public backlash they looked at other opportunities and one would soon present itself with the idea of turning the vessel into a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_ship#:~:text=A%20museum%20ship%2C%20also%20called%20a%20memorial%20ship%2C,still%20operational%20and%20thus%20capable%20of%20regular%20movement. museum ship] which was approved so on November 12th 1967 when the 1028th voyage of the Kadsre Colossus officially ended as an enduring public cheered as the vessel officially docked in El Kadsre City becoming the Kadsre Colossus Musuem which is still open to this day and is owned by the Kadsre Colossus Heritage Co.

In pop culture
The Kadsre Colossus was and has been used in many kinds of media.


 * The Kadsre Colossus was famously used as a set and was the basis for the movie, Final Hours which centers on the sinking of the fictional ocean liner the SS Electra.
 * In the adaptation of the book Liberty's Passage, The Kadsre Colossus was used as a prop in multiple scenes with the name "Cale Delmont"
 * In the Simpsons, A Kadsre Colossus parody called the "Kadsre Caddy" is the vessel that takes the main characters to El Kadsre as it was "the only thing we can afford"