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  • Lacey rides up on the grav platform with a lizzie who is working an elaborate series of calculations on a portable comp unit and muttering to himself about in-system ships and asteroid trajectories.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Inside the hull we've got an Outsider hyperdrive, while there's a fusion rocket mounted on the outside for in-system operations.

    MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010

  • We start the process of seeding the planet, and We wait in-system and monitor Our efforts.

    Triplicate Hugh Barlow 2011

  • I know somebody has Vista, and I also know that the color-correction monitor has not run Adobe Gamma to adjust the color in-system for three years.

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • With something like the glink, their speed of thought even in-system would increase an order of magnitude or more.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 3.1 of 31.1 2009

  • On the meanwhile, the Confederation heavy cruiser Unity responded to our call for assistance and is now maintaining a defensive picket in-system to prevent such eventuality although everyone feels that is akin to closing the barn door after the horses left.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Small Pepsi challenge. 2009

  • We are in-system, Captain, and scanning the area where Nalyn is to appear.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • We are in-system, Captain, and scanning the area where Nalyn is to appear.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • We are in-system, Captain, and scanning the area where Nalyn is to appear.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007

  • Since the day the Teotl had captured the wormholes and trapped everyone in-system, Starport, with the help of the Loa, had thrown its men into building a long-range ship that could launch from the ground and travel the distances between the stars.

    Crystal Rain 2006

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