Iain Banks Culture Ship List 2.0 Here at long last - all those Culture ships and more besides right up to and including those featured in Lookk To Windward. Thanks to all contributors at the Iain Banks forum and especially to 198505 and coerci. This list is also available as a .txt document. The .pdf will follow as soon as I've had some lunch :-) GCU - General Contact Unit GSV - General Systems Vehicle MSV - Medium Systems Vehicle LSV - Limited Systems Vehicle ROU - Rapid Offensive Unit (dROU = demilitarised) LOU - Limited Offensive Unit VFP - Very Fast Picket Consider Phlebas GCU Nervous Energy GCU Prosthetic Conscience GSV The Ends Of Invention (ex-Culture) GSV Eschatologist (temporary name) GSV Irregular Apocalypse GSV No More Mr Nice Guy GSV Determinist GSV Bora Horza Gobuchul LSV Profit Margin ROU Trade Surplus ROU Revisionist 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 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 Excession GCU Different Tan (Mountain Class) GCU Fate Amenable To Change (River Class) GCU Grey 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) Highpoint (ulterior) Shoot Them Later (eccentric;ulterior) LOU Attitude Adjuster (Killer) ROU Killing Time (Torturer Class) dROU Frank Exchange Of Views (Psychopath Class) 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, ex Equator) GSV Quietly Confident (Plate), later GSV Sleeper Service 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 Frightspear Furious Purpose Riptalon Wingclipper SacSlicer II Xenoclast Other Full Refund (Empire Class Main Battle Unit, Homomdan convertcraft) Superlifter Charitable View (Cliff) Cruise Ship Just Passing Through Added Value I Blame Your Mother I Blame My Mother Heavy Messing - ex-Culture ship 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 and subtitles: 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 Catastrophe Unwitting Accomplice Undesirable Alien Well I Was In The Neighbourhood You Would If You Really Loved Me You'll Thank Me Later Look to Windward Winter Storm (Chelgrian temple ship) Piety (Chelgrian temple ship) Soulhaven (Chelgrian temple ship) ROU Nuisance Value Superlifter Vulgarian GSV Sanctioned Parts List VFP Resistance Is Character-Forming OU All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff Someone Else's Problem Lacking That Small Match Temperament GCU Poke It With A Stick OU I Said, I've Got A Big Stick GSV Lasting Damage GSV Lasting Damage I GSV Lasting Damage II GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall The following have no class mentioned: Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again But Who's 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 Inappropriate Response A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity Lapsed Pacifist Reformed Nice Guy Pride Comes Before A Fall Injury Time Now Look What You've Made Me Do Kiss This Then