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> Although personally I liked 'what iceberg' as a name

That's a very Culture ship name.



Banks' father was in the Royal Navy and he grew up in North Queensferry right next to the Forth Bridge and the Rosyth naval base - pretty sure that influenced his love of really big things and Ships With Cool Names - the RN being rather good at the latter and there are few bridges with the visual impact of the former.


I was musing on a Culture-type name last night, and came up with;

Anticipation Of A New Iceberg's Arrival, The


"Arbitrary" might be good as it collects snowflakes as a hobby.


They See Me Trawling...


Ice, Ice Baby


Pillar of Autumn is one of the runner-up votes, and it is widely speculated that the original Halo was heavily influenced by the Culture books. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html


That doesn't have the classic "lack of gravitas" of Culture ship-naming conventions though. It reads more like a Morthanveld or Zihdren-Remnanter ship name. Unless there's a joke I'm missing in there.


I have no interest in boating, but I dream of one day buying a boat just so I can name it Ultimate Ship II.


nice. I'm going to call mine "Real Hackers Ship".


That's wonderful. I think you need two: Real Hackers Ship and Real Hackers' Ship.




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