In case you ever needed Iain M. Banks's Culture ship names as a service. Names sourced from the pleasingly extensive Wikipedia article listing them.

Enable the noncanonical feature to include a handful of fun additions to the canonical list.

Examples

let ship = gsv_culture_ships::random();
println!("Out-of-context problem observed by {}.", ship);

General Systems Vehicles Culture Ships

In case you ever needed Iain M. Banks's Culture ship names as a service. Names sourced from the pleasingly extensive Wikipedia article listing them. Sadly a closed set.

Usage

let shipname = gsv_culture_ships::random();
println!("Out-of-context problem observed by {}.", shipname);

If you are using the cli bin:

>  culture-ship
GSV Unreliable Witness

The noncanonical crate feature adds 5 ship names that are funny at the start of 2026, when AI is not, shall we say, at the Culture's level. They are, however, non-canonical, so by default they are not included.

See also

Javascript and golang variations.

LICENSE

Blue Oak Model License; text in LICENSE.md.