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My favorite Culture Ship name to date remains the "Frank Exchange Of Views". I've had a good time this morning (re-)reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_

• Symmetry 7y ago
  You might enjoy @cultureshipnames on Twitter. https://twitter.com/cultureshipname https://twitter.com/cultureshipname
• lostmyoldone 7y ago
  A name only made better by the ship class, "Psychopath"! Talking of which. I really love how the class names of the various warships are, lets say, less than subtle. Something of a self referential reminder that in war, one must accept that you're always the villain of someone's story, and war is never pretty.
  • shrimp_emoji 7y ago
    Yes. War is obscene to the majority of the Culture, who are (somehow) a hyper-left, atheist civilization of organics and superAIs. They tag Elua hard. They struggle with the lofty, unyieldy overhead of that ethos, but they seem to get by with insanely advanced technology and a sense of humor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture