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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Some of the ones I like from The Culture:

  • Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
  • Ethics Gradient
  • Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
  • You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave
  • Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out
[โ€“] GlitchyDigiBun 1 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of my favorite book series, UN ExForce by Craig Alanson. There's a race of aliens who's culture revolves around gambling. Their military intelligence is literally outsourced to national wagers regarding enemy fleet actions and odd on outcomes of battles. Their ships are all great, but their BlackOps vessels take the cake:

  • The It Was Like That When I Got Here
  • The Plausible Deniability
  • The You Can't Prove We Did It
  • The Was Never Here
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