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by tialaramex 2213 days ago
The name is just "Of course I still love you". They're named after vessels from Iain M Banks' "Culture" SF setting.

Culture spaceships have AI "minds" and the mind of a large ship-constructing ship will name its offspring. They tend to have an odd sense of humour, there are plenty of sites with lists of Culture ship names, and Banks wrote footnotes excusing the obvious references to 20th century human culture as matters of translation (e.g. there is an Offensive Unit named "I said I have a big stick" which is a reference to Theodore Roosevelt's "Speak softly and carry a big stick").

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the...

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I believe that the ships pick their own name rather than having it picked for them by the ship that built them.