The Range-class General Systems Vehicle (GSV) Bora Horza Gobuchul was introduced in the first chapter of the Culture novel Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks as the unnamed Mind of a mongrel ship built in haste by a Culture factory vessel to facilite its escape from enemy attack. It fails to evade the hostile Idiran fleet but manages to avoid capture by detonating its stock of warheads as a diversion whilst it transcends hyperspace to within the planetary surface of a nearby planet.