Iirc Banks kinda avoided the whole challenge by using the name or “the drone.” If you think about it ship mind names actually use class names like GSV similarly to gendered prefixes to achieve the precision and specificity in portraying the society of minds. This worked great.
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Fuck I forget, how did drones use pronouns in Culture novels?
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