jumpships

After the open simplicity of the Foke, ironwrought human cities seemed oppressive-and after the bold glassy architecture of Rhene and the gravityfree jumpships and flyers of the zotl, human science seemed puny.

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One of them banged into the horizon of the sphere and gored a hole in it, clouting nearby jumpships with molten fragments.

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Camouflaged by the tumult of devastation were jumpships, black boomerangs with laser cannon, waiting in ambush for any Foke or Rimstalker aggression.

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They immediately set to work constructing a lynk large enough to accommodate their jumpships.

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The jumpships and needlecraft would come in above him where they could scatter quickly and avoid his lance fire-until their own light lancer armor came through.

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Two nearby jumpships were left unscathed and they swiveled in the direction of the firing, scanning for targets.

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The force of the discharge flung him outward, and he spun with the bore of his flight and fired three more bursts in the vicinity of the hovering jumpships.

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Allin pointed to a scattered flock of jumpships in the umber aura of the sphere.

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One of the jumpships had spotted the band, and the blue light of its laser cannon trembled along the grinning seam of its prow.

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