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  • The enemy ship steadily accelerated, gnawing at the corvette's unwavering vector.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • The corvette's missiles were painfully visible-blasts of hot-white fire streaking to starboard, punching into the vacuum in regular intervals, each meteor a shining sliver of steel and depleted uranium.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • The EPL broke from the stark blackness of the corvette's solar lee and into the brightness of the sun-star.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • The rendezvous coordinates, given available fuel, indicated a critically narrow flight profile, but it was still theoretically possible to coast up to the corvette's orbit-with absolutely no fuel remaining.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • "It looks cold down there," Jake Carmichael, the corvette's pilot, said over the science circuit.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • Harrier Onehad destroyed two of the alien ships; she had even seen one explode through the digital optics of the corvette's laser cannon shortly before their powerful directed energy weapon had been disabled by a hammering near miss.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • He turned off the corvette's strobes, and the lander pilot answered, extinguishing her own.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • Crowded in the corvette's science laboratory, Cassy Quinn's survey team intently scanned the planet with every passive means available.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • Rhodes and Wilson, at their respective watch stations, were playing chess on one of the corvette's computers.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • Fierce glow round the corvette's drive vents as she puts on power.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

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