>>formation with the GR-75 transport Mom's Home Cooking (Who
>>names these things? she wondered, not for the first time),
>
>I'm reminded of the kind of names chosen by the ship AIs in the
>Culture books by Ian M. Banks. (E.g. a warship named "Frank Exchange
>Of Views".)

Somehow I wonder if we'll ever see Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out in UF, though.

(There is a spooky similarity between Cultureverse vessel names and those of the Covenant Wars, though, too. Pillar of Autumn sounds Chelgrian, and Truth and Reconciliation would be a rather stuffy GSV indeed.)