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== Early History (1835-1860) ==

Prior to 1835, the Trgovina Trade Co. was the only trade company in operation under Tuvaria. The company was the sole service for every trade line leaving and entering Tuvaria, and the '''''Phoenixia-Trgovina Trade Company (PTTC'')''' which connected the Kingdom of Arafors (now phoenixia) with the Almodarian Region. Trgovina in limited numbers also conducted passenger transportation on their sail ships starting in 1783 to maximize profits during the post war depressions in the region. Skip forward to 1835, and the company were up to their neck in bills and notices as trade was stagnating and the PTTC route was weakening. The company's board of operations had an option of either laying off employees and scrapping ships or declaring bankruptcy which would be detrimental to the country. The choice was made in 1835 to instead form a subsidiary company which would take over operations while Trgovina would become simply a management company. This subsidiary was named '''''Red Star Line''''' in reference to the symbolic red star used commonly by the Tuvarian government for government logos and had their headquarters in the port city of Kunovec, Tuvaria.

By the 1830s, steam technology was in its early days with many steam liners still had sails to help with propulsion. The first ship in operation under the Red Star name was the '''''SS Explorer (istraživač in Almodarian)''''' in 1839 and was the first Almodarian ship to use steam power to assist the ship in speed. It was designed for cargo delivery and made its first voyage in 1840 to the Skavarian port city of Vukrovna in which it successfully transported 200 pounds of various cargo, including the house flag of Red Star Line. This success proved that the Red Star Line could be capable enough if given the opportunity and in 1843, their dockyards expanded and the Explorer Class as they were called, was expanded with the ships '''SS Ingenuity (1844)''' and '''SS Inspiration (1844)'''. In 1846, the company experienced a PR hiccup when their SS Ingenuity collided with a smaller sailboat in neutral waters (Aranistani and Almodorian waters) where one member of the small ship's crew was killed in the collision while the Ingenuity only experienced a crack in its hull. The ship would exit service for a year for repairs and the company would pay compensation to the crew for the death and damages but in 1847, Ingenuity returned to original service.