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A new Culture ship name: "I got your gravitas right here!"

(h/t James Poniewozik, in the NYTimes)

Comments

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

My Culture ships are all named for Keanu quotes.

MSV I Know Kung Fu
GSV Strange Things Are Afoot
LCV Shoot The Hostage...

[marginaleye.livejournal.com]

I love it! I've got to start collecting Culture ship names. I'm sure doing so will make playing Kerbal Space Program more amusing.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

An excellent idea! I don't play KSP, but if I did that would certainly amuse me.

Here are a couple of places to start, if you haven't already looked at them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series

http://concord.wikia.com/wiki/Iain_M._Banks_Culture_Universe_Spaceship_Names

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I play EVE Online and my character's ship names are all (almost) Culture ship names. There are missile launchers that use festival charges, snowballs, and fireworks of various colors. My festival ship is one of the Gravits series names, but at the moment I forget which. I'll edit when I'm online in EVE.

I think, now that I've had a moment or two, that it is named "A Severe Lack Of Gravitas".

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Oh, finally remembered to look. "Zero Gravitas" is my festival ship. There's a ship called a Drake, which is constructed to look like three sides of a hexagon, so plates meeting at angles. That one is called "Only Slightly Bent."

I love Culture ship names. And am really sad Iain M. Banks is no longer with the living. :/