Gravitas Isn't Class

Reminder that naming a ship "she's one of ours sir" in an attempt to confuse the enemy assumes:
1. That they will speak your language.
2. That they have no way of identifying a ship besides writing.
3. That they're able to read a name painted on your hull and not just a blip on their radar.
4. That they'll even care what the name of your ship is before knowing whether it's hostile.
5. That they won't say "The name of the ship is, she's one of ours sir, sir."
In short, unless you run into space captains Abbott and Costello, it's not going to work.
And even if it did work, by that logic you could gain even more time by making your ship's name something unreasonably long, such as the entire script of Bee Movie, since you assume they won't do anything to you until they say the name out loud.

>autism
>missing the point of The Culture ship names

ROU Hormonal Imbalance

GSV Anger Management Issues

GCU Outfox the Fox

Alternatively

LCU Would you like a Jellybaby?

GSV Real Cool Time

GCU Only If You Want To

ROU The Looks That Kill

GCU Star Hustler

MSV Where Does This Ocean Go

ROU The King Of The Streets

GSV Right Here, Right Now

GSV Dumb Enough
MSV Can Anyone Else Hear That Rattle?

You monster

GSV What Does This Button Do?

PS There's Fries in the Fridge

ROU Overdue Assignment

ROU Fun Times With Weapons

That's why it's the
ROU'); DROP TABLE SensorContacts;--

>this isn't a quest thread.

We'll never get a culture quest will we.

Pro-name here.

GOU Lithobreaker
ROU Prone to Rapid Unplanned Disassembly
GSV Kracken Bait

GOU Maximum Force Response

I don't know why, but that's been my default wars hip designation for a while now.

ROU Just The Tip

Now that's a table with some character.

MSV Night Time (Is the Right Time)

GOU Gridfire Sticks to Kids
ROU Live Fast, Die Hard, Leave a Good-Looking Shipwreck

ROU Your Destruction Was Always Inevitable, Now It Is Imminent
ROU Ever Heard Of (Your Homeworld Here)? Me Neither
ROU Gun With a Ship Attached
GSV Outside Context Solution
GSV Automated Capitalism

ROU A Grain Of Sufficient Velocity
(d)LOU What's A Tooth File, Doc?

>GSV Outside Context Solution

I like this. -SV's are kinda hard to make names for.
ROU's are easy because even in-universe they're described as crude.

VFP Not In The Primary Sensor Cluster

Okay, you got me at these.

GCU Let Go

GCU The Touch Of Your Skin

GCU Self Aware

Damn
Not a dud amongst them.
Good thread guys and rip in piece iain m banks

MSV Half Now, The Rest Later

OU/e Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath.

GSV The Centre Holds
GOU Anarchy Loosed Upon The Galaxy, The
ROU (Thug Class) Full Of Passionate Intensity
MSV Slouching Beast

ROU Fisticuffs (Ask Your Mother)
ROU I Can't Hear You Over The Sound Of My Engines
GSV Getting Served Variably
ROU Rigidly Overwhelming Usurper

GCU Flying At The Speed Of Context

OU/e Read Between The Lines

What is this about? Also:
GOU: Who's ship is it anyway?

>What is this about?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series

Thanks.

Also a good name for a Culture ship.

GSV Now That's A Table With Some Character

GOU Moe Moe Kyun~

VFS Eat My Space Dust

ROU Kinetic Negotiations
PS Kzinti Lesson
GSV You're Not In Kansas Anymore, But Deck 37-Tango's Pretty Close

I cam here to post this and applaud this master of ancient memes.

>Why did you sign up your son as "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--" to our school, sir? Our entire student database seems to be gone.
>That's his name. Little Bobby Tables, we call him.

ROU My Nemesis on Stilts
GOU Dazed, Reeling, About To Break

In the same boat as an earlier user, having not read any Cultureverse works, but judging by the general tone...

ROU The Fact That You Are Currently Reading This Proves That Your Life Choices Up To Now Have Been Suboptimal

GCU Apologetic Imperialist

Could fit, but Culture ships don't etch their names on their hull. Indeed, it can even be said that most of them don't even have hulls, because most of their defense comes from concentric fields of various make. But again, they do communicate, using their callsigns, so it might actually fit quite well.

GSV Incessantly Polite Pedantry

LSV Lost Sibling Vanished

GSV Sophistry And Vain Rhetoric

GSV Bearing The Heart Of Discussion

GSV The Strawgoat

VFP Intermittent Morality Reversal

LOU Not again

VFP I've Come a Long Way

Spoilers bro

GOU Well, / Thought It Was Funny

Superlifter Hands Off, Eyes Closed, Drunk

MSV Don't Stick It In Gravity Wells.
GOU Some Of Us Are More Starstuff Than Others

>GSV Space Hamster
>MSV Fantasy Island
>ROU Don't Judge My Race By How I Kill You

ROU The Precise Application of Extreme Force

ROU Inappropriate Naming Schema

GSV Smaller on the Inside

Superlifter Carrying Worlds on my Back, but Only Those Who Can Carry Themselves

Superlifter I'm With Pretentious Over There

Don't forget the sister ship:
ROU Live Hard, Die Fast, Leave Good-Looking Shipwrecks

Why do these ships give themselves stupid names? Are they glitched or something?

The Culture has a distinct irreverent bent.

>those Superlifter names
10/10

ROU On Time or It's Free

The Culture see war as a horrible thing, so see no reason to glorify warships while packing huge amounts of weapons and destructive tools on them. Therefore most of the offensive units have dumb crude names like "I said, I've got a big stick" and so on.

The rest are just whimsical like that.

Litany of Litany's Litany

GCV How Did That Get There?

GSV Want Some Ship With That Gun ?
GOU I Don't Break For Galaxies
ROU Do A Barrel Roll
MSV If You Can Read This It's Too Late

I'd forgotten that was even a category.

GCV Forever Engrossed In The Dullness Of Life

But it doesn't make sense. Idiot parents would give their children stupid names. Super smart computers wouldn't give themselves stupid names.

Is this bait?

GSV Sensors Registered Irrelevance

Culture ships are somewhat... Facetious. They're super intelligent IAs with a strange sense of humour

Nah, just someone who doesn't understand how a ship who can fuck solar systems would sport a name like "You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave". Hint: it's because it can fuck solar systems.

GSV To Radiant And Novel Self

GSV TRANS

PS Run Away to Infinity

GSV Pilot Error

>Ship minds aren't their names.
Well, they're probably not the serial number with which they're born, but they are one of their names nonetheless, probably the most important one.

VFP Hare, Tortoise - Me.

Whatever. I'm too pissed off by Wordbrain to think straight.

Because if you were a world leader and Earth was visited by aliens, would you rather have the ship be named "GCU Japanese Sex Kitten" or "Star Galleon Undefeatable"?

Or "Right Hand of God No. 5928"?

GCU He Started It

SCV I started it

ROU Machine Error

VFP Sensors Registered Relevance

GSV Get Some Originality You Hacks

GOU General Direction
ROU I Have The Need

What I would rather have doesn't matter. It's what the ship wants that matters, and I highly doubt that every single ship of that species wants to make itself the laughingstock of the multiverse.

>GSV Get Some Originality You Hacks

10/10

ROU Unreasonable Amount of Weapons

So you're saying the names need more Gravitas