During the early stages of ORIANA'design and planning when the development was known by the project name Gemini with one of its primary goals being to bring to the new ship the feeling and atomposhere that CANBERRA had developed during her career and also a sense of continuation , updating and expanding many of the features which had become firm favourites while also introducing new ones.
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| Meyer Werft concept art for ORIANA |
At a very early stage even the proposed name was to add a extra link to the ageing flagship, for a brief time CANBERRA II was considered before being dropped for more appropriate suggestions before ORIANA was revealed as the name of choice during her keel laying in 1993.
As a side note the name CANBERRA II would sometime later make a small reappearance in a very different medium specifically a computer simulation game Ports of Call XXL, one of the Ports of Call seires of games intially released in 1986/7 for the Commodore Amiga seires of computers and later moved to other formats, each based around the running of a shipping company with passenger ships including in the XXL edition "CANBERRA II" the fictional cruise ship which certaily bears a striking resemblence to ORIANA as seen below.
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