The Culture is a fictional interstellar post-scarcity civilisation or society created by the Scottish writer Iain Banks and features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short fiction, collectively called the Culture series.

Common ship types in the Culture series include: Mobile habitats and factory ships, largest and most capable Culture ship type. Build and host other ships, including smaller Systems Vehicles. May be home to billions of people. Some militarised and used as giant warships during the Idiran–Culture War.

A Systems Vehicle was a type of very large general purpose Culture spacecraft. They were the largest conventional spacecraft built and operated by the Culture. [1] The most capable SVs were classified as General Systems Vehicles (GSV). The size range for GSVs was considerable. The Ocean-class was...

Mar 27, 2024 · There's no book that is set on a GSV the way that Look to Windward is set on an orbital, but Use of Weapons and Surface Detail both have sections that take place on an average GSV, and Excession has depictions of life on an eccentric GSV.

Largest GSV class mentioned in the books so far. Sent by the Culture to destroy Vavatch orbital. Pirate ship, one of the main settings of the book. Advance force invading the planet Sorpen to rescue Horza. Jernau Morat Gurgeh's ship to the planet Azad. An allegedly demilitarized GOU. Play on the cargo cult concept.

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May 3, 2020 · I'm looking for (large) quotes introducing and vividly describing a GSV. Give me the book and a bit of info and I'm happy to have a look. If anyone has one ready to share then that's even better.

This book describes how AI could be employed to produce a global “street view” of the Earth to complement the Blue Marble “satellite view,” produced by Apollo 17 in 1972, that fueled the ...

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