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  • "Perhaps," he said with a wry smile, "you planet-bred types underestimate the ship-bred."

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  • "Yes, because you're often in free-fall or outer space, so the first thing you'd have to learn, ship-bred, is to control yourself, your actions."

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  • "The heavy-worlders don't have a high opinion of adult light gravs, less of the ship-bred, and children on their worlds never speak until they've killed ..."

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  • Lunzie told Kai and Varian confidentially that the heavy-worlders ought to have had a higher tolerance for the fruit drink than the light grav or ship-bred.

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  • The ship-bred were wary of anything in its natural form.

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  • Kai had no illusions about their situation, the heavy-worlders had mutinied and intended to strip the camp of anything useful, leaving the ship-bred and light weights to fend for themselves, unequipped and unprotected on a hostile, dangerous world.

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  • This planet was exceedingly active, volcanically and tectonically, and dangerous for ship-bred juveniles.

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  • There were dangers inherent in mixing planet - and ship-bred groups and EV kept it down to a minimum whenever possible.

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  • While the ARCT-10, like her sister ships in the Exploratory and Evaluation Corps, had a basic administrative and operations personnel who were ship-born and ship-bred, the complement of additional specialists, trainees and, occasionally, high echelon travelers for the Federated Sentient Planets changed continually, giving the ship-bred the stimulation of meeting members of other cultures, sub-groups, minorities and persuasions.

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  • As Kai recalled, Gaber's credentials rated him as ship-bred, having made only four expeditions in his six decades.

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