{
  "version": 1,
  "title": "Culture Orbitals, habitats and personal-name origin components",
  "status": "The named Orbital/habitat set and the novel line references are user-supplied. Except for the author's Juboal/Rabaroan explanation, individual identifications have not been independently source-checked.",
  "count_note": "The supplied primary list contains 18 standalone names and one parenthetical habitat label; its supplement calls an earlier list '17-name'. Preserve all 19 raw lines without silently selecting a name to drop.",
  "source_file": "culture-orbital-names.txt",
  "confirmed": [
    {
      "name": "Codure",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chiark",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cloathel",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dibaldipen",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dinyol-hei",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Erbil",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Foerlinteul",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gadampth",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hursklip",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Masaq’",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Quyeela",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Screce",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Seddun",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spanshacht-Trouferre",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Stafl",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Svanrayt",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Teriocre",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Yinang",
      "kind": "orbital_or_hab",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    },
    {
      "name": "Broat",
      "source_label": "Broatsa (Phage Rock)",
      "kind": "habitat",
      "also_known_as": "Phage Rock",
      "star_system": "Kwins",
      "origin_form": "Broatsa",
      "note": "The user identifies Broat as the formal habitat name and Broatsa as its origin-suffixed form.",
      "provenance": "user-supplied confirmed-name set"
    }
  ],
  "rules": [
    "Personal-name origin components resemble an address and can identify a system/Orbital plus a local subdivision, but do not prove the type of either component.",
    "The -sa suffix is attached to the place-derived component; it roughly corresponds to English -er and is not a prefix.",
    "The first component can identify a stellar system; where a system has only one Orbital, it may instead identify that Orbital.",
    "Known second components include Plates; other second components must remain untyped unless explicitly identified.",
    "The Gzilt Tursensa Ngaroe construction is retained as a separate component-order variation.",
    "Do not infer a Culture Orbital from an adopted Culture name, a birth outside the Culture, or a ship/drone avatar."
  ],
  "essay_source": {
    "title": "A Few Notes on the Culture",
    "author": "Iain M. Banks",
    "url": "https://theculture.adactio.com/",
    "section": "Nomenclature",
    "notes": "Primary author statement independently located; other classifications and book line numbers are user-supplied observations, not independently source-checked."
  },
  "origin_clues": [
    {
      "origin_form": "Bahlln-Euchersa",
      "first": "Bahlln",
      "second": "Eucher",
      "resident": "Wrobich Vress Schennil dam Flaysse",
      "first_type": "unresolved star/system or Orbital",
      "second_type": "unresolved habitat or subdivision",
      "category": "unresolved",
      "example": "Bahlln-Euchersa Wrobich Vress Schennil dam Flaysse"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Grice-Thantapsa",
      "first": "Grice",
      "second": "Thantap",
      "resident": "Li Brase ’ndane dam Sione",
      "first_type": "unresolved star/system or Orbital",
      "second_type": "unresolved habitat or subdivision",
      "category": "unresolved",
      "example": "Grice-Thantapsa Li Brase ’ndane dam Sione"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Gart-Kepilesa",
      "first": "Gart",
      "second": "Kepile",
      "resident": "Zreyn Enhoff Tramow Afayaf dam Niskat-west",
      "first_type": "unresolved star/system or Orbital",
      "second_type": "unresolved habitat or subdivision",
      "category": "unresolved",
      "example": "Gart-Kepilesa Zreyn Enhoff Tramow Afayaf dam Niskat-west"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Sholz-Iniassa",
      "first": "Sholz",
      "second": "Inias",
      "resident": "Jerle Ruule Batra dam Ilyon",
      "first_type": "unresolved star/system or Orbital",
      "second_type": "unresolved habitat or subdivision",
      "category": "unresolved",
      "example": "Sholz-Iniassa Jerle Ruule Batra dam Ilyon"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Prebeign-Frultesa",
      "first": "Prebeign",
      "second": "Frulte",
      "resident": "Yime Leutze Nsokyi dam Volsh",
      "first_type": "unresolved star/system or Orbital",
      "second_type": "unresolved habitat or subdivision",
      "category": "unresolved",
      "example": "Prebeign-Frultesa Yime Leutze Nsokyi dam Volsh"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Parharengyisa",
      "first": "Parharengyi",
      "second": null,
      "resident": "Listach Ja’andeesih Petrain dam Kotosklo",
      "first_type": "unresolved origin",
      "second_type": null,
      "category": "speculative",
      "note": "Possible interstellar habitat within an asteroid is the user's interpretation, not an established setting classification.",
      "example": "Parharengyisa Listach Ja’andeesih Petrain dam Kotosklo"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Tursensa Ngaroe",
      "first": "Ngaroe",
      "second": "Tursen",
      "resident": "Hgan QiRia dam Yutton",
      "first_type": "unresolved origin component",
      "second_type": "unresolved habitat or subdivision",
      "category": "variant",
      "note": "Gzilt example; actual component order is reversed relative to the common first–second-sa arrangement. Do not rewrite its attested order.",
      "example": "Tursensa Ngaroe Hgan QiRia dam Yutton"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Chiark-Gevantsa",
      "first": "Chiark",
      "second": "Gevant",
      "resident": "Gurgeh",
      "first_type": "Orbital",
      "second_type": "Plate",
      "category": "identified",
      "reference": "The Player of Games, lines 631, 885, 2077 (user-supplied locations)",
      "example": "Chiark-Gevantsa / Gurgeh"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Stafl-Preonsa",
      "first": "Stafl",
      "second": "Preon",
      "resident": "Fal ’Ngeestra",
      "first_type": "Orbital",
      "second_type": "subordinate component; Plate not confirmed",
      "category": "partial",
      "reference": "Consider Phlebas, line 7936; Matter, line 8756 (user-supplied locations)",
      "example": "Stafl-Preonsa / Fal ’Ngeestra"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Stafl-Lepoortsa",
      "first": "Stafl",
      "second": "Lepoort",
      "resident": "Xide Hyrlis",
      "first_type": "Orbital",
      "second_type": "Plate",
      "category": "identified",
      "reference": "Matter, lines 4784, 8756 (user-supplied locations)",
      "example": "Stafl-Lepoortsa / Xide Hyrlis"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Seddun-Braijsa",
      "first": "Seddun",
      "second": "Braij",
      "resident": "Byr Genar-Hofoen",
      "first_type": "Orbital",
      "second_type": "subordinate component; type unresolved",
      "category": "partial",
      "reference": "Excession, lines 670, 1185, 4333 (user-supplied locations)",
      "example": "Seddun-Braijsa / Byr Genar-Hofoen"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Cloathel-Beldrunsa",
      "first": "Cloathel",
      "second": "Beldrun",
      "resident": "Khoriem Poere",
      "first_type": "Orbital",
      "second_type": "subordinate component; type unresolved",
      "category": "partial",
      "reference": "Excession, line 5382 (user-supplied location)",
      "example": "Cloathel-Beldrunsa / Khoriem Poere"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Masaq’—Sintriersa",
      "first": "Masaq’",
      "second": "Sintrier",
      "resident": "Chomba Lassils",
      "first_type": "Orbital",
      "second_type": "subordinate component; type unresolved",
      "category": "partial",
      "reference": "Look to Windward, lines 209, 3053 (user-supplied locations)",
      "example": "Masaq’—Sintriersa / Chomba Lassils"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Juboal-Rabaroansa",
      "first": "Juboal",
      "second": "Rabaroan",
      "resident": "Perosteck Balveda",
      "first_type": "stellar system",
      "second_type": "Plate",
      "category": "identified",
      "note": "The Orbital itself is not identified by this compound.",
      "reference": "Iain M. Banks, A Few Notes on the Culture, Nomenclature section (author's explicit example)",
      "example": "Juboal-Rabaroansa / Perosteck Balveda",
      "author_full_name": "Juboal-Rabaroansa Perosteck Alseyn Balveda dam T’seif"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": null,
      "first": null,
      "second": null,
      "resident": "Ulver Seich",
      "first_type": null,
      "second_type": null,
      "category": "exception",
      "note": "The full origin has multiple components. Born outside the Culture on the eighth level of Sursamen Shellworld; no Orbital should be inferred.",
      "reference": "Matter, lines 2414–2416, 8756 (user-supplied locations)",
      "example": "/ Ulver Seich"
    },
    {
      "origin_form": "Quyn-Sichultsa",
      "first": "Quyn",
      "second": "Sichult",
      "resident": "Lededje Y’breq",
      "first_type": "stellar system",
      "second_type": "planet",
      "category": "exception",
      "note": "Name adopted after becoming a Culture citizen; this is a planetary origin, not an Orbital.",
      "reference": "Surface Detail, line 11066 (user-supplied location)",
      "example": "Quyn-Sichultsa / Lededje Y’breq"
    }
  ],
  "exclusions": [
    {
      "person": "Klatsli Quike",
      "origin_form": "Astle-Chulinisa",
      "reason": "Quike is a ship avatar; the compound is excluded from this biological-resident birthplace evidence set.",
      "note": "Source user explicitly excludes this example from independent biological-person birth-origin evidence."
    },
    {
      "scope": "Ship and drone names",
      "reason": "Excluded from this list of non-ship personal origins."
    }
  ]
}