# Ship names from Iain M Banks' Culture series

This list is culled from the Wikipedia page. I don't know if it's comprehensive (although it looks it), and I haven't checked that all the names are either present in the books or spelled correctly here. I *think* they are, and that's good enough.

Note that these names are not all Culture ships; and I think I should probably prefer only to select ones that are.

The reason the list is here is that I propose to assign a codename taken from the list to each point release of Post Scarcity. starting from 0.1.0, which will be `A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity`. Names that have already been selected are **highlighted**.

I think my plan is to assign 0.1.X point releases names starting with `A`, 0.2.X releases names starting with `B`, and so on; but I reserve the right to change my mind or just be wildly inconsistent.

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- 5Gelish-Oplule
- 7Uagren
- 8401.00 Partial Photic Boundary
- 8Churkun
- Abalule-Sheliz
- Ablation
- Abundance Of Onslaught
- Advanced Case Of Chronic Patheticism
- A Fine Disregard For Awkward Facts
- All The Same, I Saw It First
- **A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity**
- Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
- Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The
- Anything Legal Considered
- Appeal To Reason
- Arbitrary
- Armchair Traveller
- Arrested Development
- A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
- A Ship With A View
- Attitude Adjuster
- Awkward Customer
- Bad For Business
- Beastly To The Animals
- Beats Working
- Big Sexy Beast
- Bodhisattva, OAQS
- Boo!
- Bora Horza Gobuchul
- Break Even
- But Who's Counting?
- Caconym
- Cantankerous
- Cargo Cult
- CH2OH.(CHOH)4.CHO
- Charitable View
- Charming But Irrational
- Clear Air Turbulence or CAT for short
- Congenital Optimist
- Contents May Differ
- Control Surface
- Conventional Wisdom
- Credibility Problem
- Death And Gravity
- Demented But Determined
- Determinist
- Different Tan
- Displacement Activity
- Don't Try This At Home
- Dramatic Exit
- Dressed Up To Party
- Eight Rounds Rapid
- Empiricist
- Eschatologist (temporary name)
- Ethics Gradient
- Exaltation-Parsimony III
- Excuses And Accusations
- Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall
- Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall
- Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints
- “Fasilyce, Upon Waking”
- Fate Amenable To Change
- Fine Till You Came Along
- Fixed Grin
- Flexible Demeanour
- Fractious Person
- Frank Exchange Of Views
- Frightspear
- Fulanya-Guang
- Full Refund (formerly MBU 604)
- Funny, It Worked Last Time...
- Furious Purpose
- Gellemtyan-Asool-Anafawaya
- Germane Riposte
- God Told Me To Do It
- Grey Area (aka Meatfucker)
- Grey Area (aka Meatfucker)
- Gunboat Diplomat
- Halation Effect
- Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
- Happy Idiot Talk
- Headcrash
- Heavy Messing
- Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty
- Hence the Fortress
- Heresiarch
- Hidden Income
- Highpoint
- Honest Mistake
- Hundredth Idiot, The
- Hylozoist
- Iberre
- I Blame My Mother
- I Blame The Parents
- I Blame Your Mother
- Inappropriate Response
- Injury Time
- In One Ear
- Inspiral, Coalescence, Ringdown
- Invincible
- Irregular Apocalypse
- I Said, I've Got A Big Stick
- I Thought He Was With You
- It'll Be Over By Christmas
- It's Character Forming
- It's My Party And I'll Sing If I Want To
- Jaundiced Outlook
- Joiler Veppers (provisional name)
- Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality
- Just Passing Through
- Just Read The Instructions
- Just Testing
- Just The Washing Instruction Chip In Life's Rich Tapestry
- Kakistocrat
- Killing Time
- Kiss My Ass
- Kiss The Blade
- Kiss This Then
- Labtebricolephile
- Lacking That Small Match Temperament
- Lapsed Pacifist
- Laskuil-Hliz
- Lasting Damage
- Lasting Damage I
- Lasting Damage II
- later Sleeper Service
- Learned Response
- Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill
- Limiting Factor
- Limivorous
- Little Rascal
- Liveware Problem“Now, Turning to Reason, & its Just Sweetness”
- Long View
- Lucid Nonsense
- Me, I'm Counting
- Melancholia Enshrines All Triumph
- Messenger Of Truth
- Minority Report
- Misophist
- Mistake Not…
- Nervous Energy
- Never Talk To Strangers
- New Toy
- No Fixed Abode
- No More Mr Nice Guy
- No One Knows What The Dead Think
- Not Invented Here
- Not Wanted On Voyage
- Now Look What You've Made Me Do
- Now We Try It My Way
- Nuisance Value
- Oceanic Dissonance
- Of Course I Still Love You
- “On First Seeing Jhiriit”
- Only Slightly Bent
- Outstanding Contribution To The Historical Process
- Passing By And Thought I'd Drop In
- Peace Makes Plenty
- Pelagian
- Perfidy
- Piety
- Poke It With A Stick
- Pressure Drop
- Pride Comes Before A Fall
- Prime Mover
- Problem Child
- Profit Margin
- Prosthetic Conscience
- Pure Big Mad Boat Man
- Qualifier
- Questionable Ethics
- Quiatrea-Anang
- Quietly Confident,
- Rapid Random Response Unit
- Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
- Reasonable Excuse
- Recent Convert
- Reformed Nice Guy
- Refreshingly Unconcerned With The Vulgar Exigencies Of Veracity
- Resistance Is Character-Forming
- Revisionist
- Riptalon
- Rubric Of Ruin
- Sacrificial Victim
- SacSlicer II
- Sanctioned Parts List
- Scar Glamour
- Screw Loose
- Seed Drill
- Sense Amid Madness, Wit Amidst Folly
- Serious Callers Only
- Shoot Them Later
- Size Isn't Everything
- Smile Tolerantly
- Sober Counsel
- Someone Else's Problem
- So Much For Subtlety
- Soulhaven
- Space Monster
- Steely Glint
- Stranger Here Myself
- Subtle Shift In Emphasis
- Sweet and Full of Grace
- Synchronize Your Dogmas
- T3OU 118
- T3OU 4
- T3OU 736
- Tactical Grace
- Teething Problems
- Thank You And Goodnight
- The Ends Of Invention
- The Hand of God 137
- The Precise Nature Of The Catastrophe
- The Usual But Etymologically Unsatisfactory
- Thorough But... Unreliable
- Total Internal Reflection
- Trade Surplus
- Transient Atmospheric Phenomenon
- Ucalegon
- Ultimate Ship The Second
- Unacceptable Behaviour
- Undesirable Alien
- Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
- Uninvited Guest
- Unreliable Witness
- Unwitting Accomplice
- Use Psychology
- Value Judgement
- Very Little Gravitas Indeed
- Vision Of Hope Surpassed
- Vulgarian
- Warm, Considering
- We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
- Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
- What Are The Civilian Applications?
- What Is The Answer And Why?
- Wingclipper
- Winter Storm
- Wisdom Like Silence
- Within Reason
- Xenoclast
- Xenocrat
- Xenoglossicist
- Xenophobe
- Yawning Angel
- You Call This Clean?
- You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave
- You'll Thank Me Later
- You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
- You Naughty Monsters
- Youthful Indiscretion
- You Would If You Really Loved Me
- Zealot
- Zero Credibility
- Zero Gravitas
- Zoologist