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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.

  • 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