Re: Ship Naming Convention (was: RE: What, no messages?)

My preference is for the organic ships and Kra'Vak types to have names
from
Iain M Banks' Culture.

They may seem quirky ButŠ

Enjoy the novels.
The listing is by occurrence in the Novel in < >

<Consider Phlebas>	<The Player of Games>

 GCU Nervous Energy	Clipper Screw Loose
 GCU Prosthetic Conscience	GCU Flexible Demeanour
 GSV The Ends Of Invention [ex-Culture] GCU Just Read The Instructions
 GSV Eschatologist (temporary name)	GCU Of Course I Still Love You
 GSV Irregular Apocalyse	GOU Limiting Factor
 GSV No More Mr Nice Guy	GSV Cargo Cult
 GSV Determinist	GSV Little Rascal
 GSV Bora Horza Gobuchul	GSV So Much For Subtlety
 LSV Profit Margin	GSV Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence
 ROU Trade Surplus	GSV Youthful Indiscretion
 ROU Revisionist	LOU Gunboat Diplomat
	dROU Zealot
	Superlifter Kiss My Ass
	Superlifter Prime Mover

			    <The State of the Art>

GSV Bad for Business	chapter & sub titles	chapter & sub titles
GCU Arbitrary	A Ship With A View	Minority Report
GCU Cantankerous	Ablation	Not Wanted On Voyage
GCU Only Slightly Bent	Arrested Development	Perfidy
GCU I Thought He Was With  You	Credibility Problem	Sacrificial
Victim
GCU Space Monster	Dramatic Exit	Stranger Here Myself
GCU A Series Of Unlikely Explanations	Excuses And Accusations
	Synchronize Your Dogmas
	God Told Me To Do It	The Precise Nature Of The Catastrophe
GCU Big Sexy Beast	Halation Effect Thank you And Goodnight
GCU Never Talk To Strangers	Happy Idiot Talk	Unwitting
Accomplice
GCU Funny, It Worked Last Time...	Helpless In The Face Of Your
Beauty
	Heresiarch	Undesirable Alien
GCU Boo!		Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
GCU Ultimate Ship The Second	Just Another Victim Of The Ambient
Morality
		You Would If You Really Loved Me
GCU It'll Be Over By Christmas		You'll Thank Me Later

<Excession>

Culture - includes Ulterior and Eccentrics	Systems Vehicles

GCU Different Tan (Mountain Class)	GSV Anticipation Of A New
Lover's
Arrival, The (Plate)
GCU Fate Amenable To Change (River Class)	GSV Death and Gravity
GCU Gray Area	GSV Ethics Gradient (Range)
GCU It's Character Forming	GSV Honest Mistake
GCU Jaundiced Outlook (Ridge)	GSV Limivourous (Ocean)
GCU Problem Child (Troubadour)	GSV No Fixed Abode (Sabbaticaler, ex
Equator)
GCU Reasonable Excuse	GSV Quietly Confident (Plate)
GCU Recent Convert	GSV Sleeper Service (Plate)
GCU Tactical Grace (Escarpment Class)	GSV Uninvited Guest
	GSV Use Psychology
GCU Unacceptable Behaviour	GSV What Is The Answer and Why?
GCV Steely Glint (Plains)	GSV Wisdom Like Silence (Continent)
 Highpoint (ulterior)	GSV Yawning Angel (Range)
 Shoot Them Later (eccentric;ulterior)	GSV Zero Gravitas
LOU Attitude Adjuster (Killer)	LSV Misophist
ROU Killing Time (Torturer Class)	LSV Serious Callers Only
(Tundra)
dROU Frank Exchange Of Views (Psychopath Class) MSV Not Invented Here
(Desert)
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 Zetetic Elench Affront misc

 Appeal To Reason	Kiss the Blade (Battle Cruiser) (MBU) Full
Refund
(Empire
 Break Even	Furious Purpose Class- Homomdan Convertcraft Vessel)
 Long View	Frightspear	Riptalon	Superlifter
CharitableView
(Cliff)
 Peace Makes Plenty	Wingclipper	Cruise Ship Just Passing Through
 Sober Counsel	SacSlicer II		 Added Value
 Within Reason	Xenoclast	I Blame Your Mother
			I Blame My Mother
			Heavy Messing - ex-culture ship

	<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

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)
o ROU	Rapid Offensive Unit	classes: Abominator, Torturer, Gangster,
Inquisitor, Killer, Psychopath, Thug, Scree (LCU) demilitarized Rapid
Offensive Unit [Renamed "very fast picket" in Weapons]

 credits

 This file was first written by Ian Young and is maintained by Robert
Keogh.
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 The ships are ordered by book, type, and alphabetically. The ships
appearing only as chapter and subsection headings in The State of the
Art
have also been added. If there are any errors or ommissions please let
me
know rkeogh@pobox.com

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Thanks to the following for originally compiling this list on
rec.arts.sf.written, contributing amendments and updates.
	Scott Colvin Beeler   scbeeler@eos.ncsu.edu
	Brett Holman	      holman@physics.unimelb.edu.au
	Paul Mison	      Paul.Mison@astro.cf.ac.uk
	Heikki Poso	      hposo@vipunen.hut.fi
	Rodrick Su	      rod@cats.ucsc.edu
	Mark Willoughby       willocds@sa.rl.ac.uk
	Ian Young	      imy@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk
	Zvi		      zgilbert@titan.ucs.umass.edu

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