FILE : cultureshiplist.txt
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The following list of Culture Ship names contains the names of the ships
in all the Culture novels. Please note the following:

The Look To Windward ship list has not been varified, should anyone
varify it please email me including any omissions or corrections. 

There is currently no ship list from the two Culture short stories, A
Gift From The Culture and Descendant, included here. Please email me the
list if you compile one. 


This file was first written by Ian Young and was maintained by Robert
Keogh while the Culture Shock website existed. I am now maintaining it. 

Matthew Stanfield 03-10-2001 
See: The Culture FAQ -- http://www.i-dig.info/culture/culturefaq.html


Book: Consider Phlebas

GCU Nervous Energy
GCU Prosthetic Conscience
GSV The Ends Of Invention [ex-Culture]
GSV Eschatologist (temporary name)
GSV Irregular Apocalyse
GSV No More Mr Nice Guy
GSV Determinist
GSV Bora Horza Gobuchul
LSV Profit Margin
ROU Trade Surplus
ROU Revisionist


Book: The Player of Games

Clipper Screw Loose
GCU Flexible Demeanour
GCU Just Read The Instructions
GCU Of Course I Still Love You
GOU Limiting Factor
GSV Cargo Cult
GSV Little Rascal
GSV So Much For Subtlety
GSV Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
GSV Youthful Indiscretion
LOU Gunboat Diplomat
dROU Zealot
Superlifter Kiss My Ass
Superlifter Prime Mover


Book: Use of Weapons

GCU Just Testing
dROU Xenophobe
GCU Very Little Gravitas Indeed
GSV What Are The Civilian Applications?
GSV Congenital Optimist
GSV Size Isn't Everything
GCU Sweet and Full of Grace


Short Story: The State of the Art

GSV Bad for Business
GCU Arbitrary
GCU Cantankerous
GCU Only Slightly Bent
GCU I Thought He Was With You
GCU Space Monster
GCU A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
GCU Big Sexy Beast
GCU Never Talk To Strangers
GCU Funny, It Worked Last Time...
GCU Boo!
GCU Ultimate Ship The Second
GCU It'll Be Over By Christmas

Chapter & sub titles of: The State of the Art

(I think that only some of these are chapter headings, most are
ship names as usual).

A Ship With A View
Ablation
Arrested Development
Credibility Problem
Dramatic Exit
Excuses And Accusations
God Told Me To Do It
Halation Effect
Happy Idiot Talk
Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty
Heresiarch
Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality
Minority Report
Not Wanted On Voyage
Perfidy
Sacrificial Victim
Stranger Here Myself
Synchronize Your Dogmas
Thank you And Goodnight
The Precise Nature Of The Catastrope
Unwitting Accomplice
Undesirable Alien
Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
You Would If You Really Loved Me
You'll Thank Me Later


Book: Excession

Culture - includes Ulterior and Eccentrics

GCU Different Tan (Mountain Class)
GCU Fate Amenable To Change (River Class)
GCU Gray Area
GCU It's Character Forming
GCU Jaundiced Outlook (Ridge)
GCU Problem Child (Troubadour)
GCU Reasonable Excuse
GCU Recent Convert
GCU Tactical Grace (Escarpment Class)
GCU Unacceptable Behaviour
GCV Steely Glint (Plains)
LOU Attitude Adjuster (Killer)
ROU Killing Time (Torturer Class)
dROU Frank Exchange Of Views (Psychopath Class)
Highpoint (ulterior)
Shoot Them Later (eccentric;ulterior)

Systems Vehicles

GSV Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The (Plate)
GSV Death and Gravity
GSV Ethics Gradient (Range)
GSV Honest Mistake
GSV Limivourous (Ocean)
GSV No Fixed Abode (Sabbaticaler, exEquator)
GSV Quietly Confident (Plate)
GSV Sleeper Service (Plate)
GSV Uninvited Guest
GSV Use Psychology
GSV What Is The Answer and Why?
GSV Wisdom Like Silence (Continent)
GSV Yawning Angel (Range)
GSV Zero Gravitas
LSV Misophist
LSV Serious Callers Only (Tundra)
MSV Not Invented Here (Desert)

Zetetic Elench

Appeal To Reason
Break Even
Long View
Peace Makes Plenty
Sober Counsel
Within Reason

Affront

Kiss the Blade (Battle Cruiser)
Frightspear
Furious Purpose
Riptalon
Wingclipper
SacSlicer II
Xenoclast

misc

(MBU) Full Refund (Empire Class-Homomdan Convertcraft Vessel)
Superlifter Charitable View (Cliff)
Cruise Ship Just Passing Through
Added Value
I Blame Your Mother
I Blame My Mother
Heavy Messing - ex-culture ship


Book: Look to Windward

Culture

[Orbiatals are not actually ships.]
Orbital Masaq
Orbital Quyeela

GSV Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall (Equator Class)
GSV Lasting Damage I
GSV Lasting Damage II
GSV Sanctioned Parts List
GCU Poke It With A Stick
ROU Nuisance Value (Torturer Class)
Superlifter Vulgarian
VFP Resistance is Character Forming (Former ROU, Gangster Class)

Offensive Units, specific class not stated:

?OU All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff
?OU I Said I've Got A Big Stick (whisper or written in small print)
?OU Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again

Ship type not stated:

Someone Else's Problem
Lacking That Small Matching Temperament
But Whose Counting
Germane Riposte
We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
All The Same, I Saw It First
Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
Zero Credibility
Charming But Irrational
Demented But Determined
You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
Lucid Nonsense
Awkward Customer
Thorough But... Unreliable
Advanced Case of Chronic Patheticism
Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
Conventional Wisdom
In One Ear
Fine Till You Came Along
I Blame The Parents
Conventional Wisdom
Inappropriate Response
A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity
Lapsed Pacifist
Reformed Nice Guy
Pride Comes Before A Fall
Injury Time
Now Look What You Made Me Do
Kiss This Then

Chapter Titles (Ship like names)

Absence of Gravitas
Barge Bariatricist
Barge Ucalegon

Chelagrian Ships

Temple Ship Soulhaven
Winter Storm


Ships that don't 'exist' but come from an interview with IMB for The
Gardian newspaper in August 2000:

Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out
Gravitas, What Gravitas?
Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...
Gravitas Free Zone 
Low Gravitas Warning Signal
Absolutely No You-Know-What
Little Gravitas
Zero Gravitas

IMB: "it was a scathing review of Culture ship-naming policy delivered
by another Involved civilisation. They suggested that such enormously
powerful and intellectually refined entities ought to have names with a
little more gravitas, to reflect their near-god-like status; the
immediate and sustained reaction of one of the Culture's ship
manufacturies was to name all its subsequent vessels things like: Stood
Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out; Gravitas, What Gravitas?;
Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...;
Gravitas Free Zone; Low Gravitas Warning Signal, etc etc (including the
Zen-like Absolutely No You-No-What). I am so sad I have a separate list
of the Gravitas ships at home. It currently runs to about 20, I think." 


Ship Nomenclature:

GCU General Contact Unit (classes: Delinquent)
GOU General Offensive Unit
GSV General System Vehicle
LOU Limited Offensive Unit (classes: Hooligan)
LSV Limited System Vehicle
MSV Medium Systems Vehicle (Desert Class: 3.5km length, Original GSV concept,
now reclassified MSV)
ROU Rapid Offensive Unit
(classes: Abominator, Torturer, Gangster, Inquisitor, Killer,
Psychopath, Thug, Scree (LCU) demilitarized Rapid Offensive Unit
[Renamed "very fast picket" in Weapons])