It’s Named After Star Wars Rebels’ Space Whales (Sort of)
The Halcyon is a MPO-1400 Purgill-class star cruiser, evoking the giant space whale species that can bio-organically achieve hyperspace travel that was first encountered in Star Wars Rebels. The Purrgil were, in old spacer tales, meant to be the natural inspiration for civilizations to develop their own FTL travel, and given the other info we have that these star liners were some of the first widely available hyperspace transit, naming this class of vessel after the Purrgil would make sense.
Except they didn’t, because the Purrgil are the whales, and the Purgill is the cruiser class. I sure hope somebody at Chandrila Star Line was fired for that blunder.
