stardrive

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See also: star-drive and star drive

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Etymology

From star +‎ drive. From the ability of the drive to propel the vehicle to the stars.

Noun

stardrive (plural stardrives)

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  1. (science fiction) a device used to propel a spacecraft through interstellar distances
    • Stardrive section of a Galaxy-class starship. [1]
      Memory Alpha, Secondary hull, 2005
    • Atlantis, utilizing its star drive, was able to travel from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Pegasus Galaxy, a distance of between 3.26 and 3.5 million light years. [2]
      GateWorld, Stardrive
    • Scorpio is damaged in a collision course with a asteroid and the Scorpio crew require a star-drive from Federation scientist Dr. Plaxton so they can out-run all Federation pursuit ships [3]
      IMDB, "Stardrive"
    • Nebula moved back to her main console and looked to the stardrive unit's monitors immediately discovering the grim truth. [4]
      iUniverse, "The Godmaker Legacy: The Derelict: A Novel", Kirkland D. Casey, 2003, pp.171, →ISBN
    • The StarDrive was discovered on the planet Centaurus [5]
      NESFA Hymnal, "Reminder", B. Coulson, 1976, pp.12
    • no star drive yet devised could produce that kind of acceleration [5]
      "Orbitsville Departure", B. Shaw, 1983, pp.190
    • Every race they met on their way through the Core had a 'star drive based on a different theory. [5]
      "Light", M.J. Harrison, 2002, pp.135
    • The voice of the Organic Computer began counting down the seconds until the star drive was cut [5]
      Amazing Stories, "We All Died At Breakaway Stations", B.C. Meredith, 1969
    • Man's horizons exploded to the rims of the universe with the perfection of the star drive [5]
      Astounding SF, "Blood's Rover", C. Oliver, 1952
    • They'll know the principles of the star drive in a few more generations [5]
      Astounding SF, "Genius", P. Anderson, 1948
    • We will have to wait until they move off. I should be able to calculate their direction and get a rough idea of the distance from the power signature when they activate their Stardrive [6]
      Aliens, "Guardian Generations", Clive Osborne Rapley, 2010, pp.67, →ISBN
    • When they engaged the Star Drive to escape, the hunter mine had closed to ninety metres, inside the Star Drive's field of influence. [7]
      Trafford Publishing, "Origin: The Heritage Files - Phase One", Roger Hydes, 2008, →ISBN
    • —or century: humans can endure star-drive! [8]
      Arc Manor, "The Colors of Space", Marion Zimmer Bradley, 2008, pp.97, →ISBN
    • He was also beginning to lose faith that the recently recovered and bizarrely incoherent Ehrehin was really capable of delivering a working singularity- powered stardrive prototype any time in the foreseeable future. [9]
      Simon and Schuster, "The Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do", Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, 2007, pp.434, →ISBN
    • Whatever kind of creatures they were, and whatever the disaster that threatened their planet, they had a star-drive to take them out of the solar system to another star. [10]
      Prologue Books, "Scavengers in Space", Alan E. Nourse, 2013, →ISBN
    • What could be gleaned from study of the landing craft was as far from the stardrive as their first steam engine had been from that spaceship itself; there was no chance of premature contact with other races. [11]
      "The Far Side of Evil", Sylvia Louise Engdahl, 1989, pp.158

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References

  1. ^ Memory Alpha, Secondary hull (accessed 2014-03-18)
  2. ^ GateWorld, Stardrive (accessed 2014-03-18)
  3. ^ IMDB, "Stardrive" (accessed 2014-03-18)
  4. ^ books.google.com, , (accessed 2014-03-18)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 books.google.com, (accessed 2014-03-18)
  6. ^ books.google.com, (accessed 2014-03-18)
  7. ^ books.google.com, (accessed 2014-03-18)
  8. ^ books.google.com, (accessed 2014-03-18)
  9. ^ books.google.com (accessed 2014-03-18)
  10. ^ books.google.com (accessed 2013-03-18)
  11. ^ books.google.com, (accessed 2014-03-18)
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