Re:Beware of Japanese Balloon Bombs
by chiph on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @11:30AM
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One of the clever things that Ian M. Banks did in his Culture series was naming military ship classes. So rather than "Liberator", he had "Torturer", "Gangster", and "Psychopath" classes of ship.
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Those names make me think more of British ship names[1], which tend to be more aggressive, which makes sense given Bank's nationality. Also the background of The Culture trying to be taken more seriously by other civilisations who thought they were too soft. A sort of "We might be soft, but we can make machines that definitely aren't".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astute-class_submarine#Boats_o...