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Another Culture ship, the Liveware Problem started life as a Delta class GCU, was modified to become a Stream class Superlifter, then be-weaponed to become something like an ROU. Described in chapter 25 of Matter as 300m long, square-sectioned and slab-sided after the addition of blocky engines to its original slim pyramidal shape.

Two 'side' views shown here, rotated by 45 degrees around the long axis. My version shows more of the original shape than the above description suggests, just because I like the way it looks. The spherical blisters on the edges of the pyramid's sides are the weapon emplacements. The overall shape owes something to a rendering of a basically conical Murderer class I saw many years ago (artist unknown), but also (perhaps bizarrely) something to the chunk of masonry dropped off the top of the church in Hot Fuzz...

Description
Another Culture ship, the Liveware Problem started life as a Delta class GCU, was modified to become a Stream class Superlifter, then be-weaponed to become something like an ROU. Described in chapter 25 of Matter as 300m long, square-sectioned and slab-sided after the addition of blocky engines to its original slim pyramidal shape.

Two 'side' views shown here, rotated by 45 degrees around the long axis. My version shows more of the original shape than the above description suggests, just because I like the way it looks. The spherical blisters on the edges of the pyramid's sides are the weapon emplacements. The overall shape owes something to a rendering of a basically conical Murderer class I saw many years ago (artist unknown), but also (perhaps bizarrely) something to the chunk of masonry dropped off the top of the church in Hot Fuzz...