A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time

Usage examples of burster.

It made him remember the passage of Null Boundary through the eye of the swan burster, when Nikko had made his wild dash out of Deception Well.

When a burster spat out its virulent, high-energy emissions, a network of telescopes went into operation, recording its brief life.

By the time the virus was discovered, it had already spread from the watch-posts to the orbital synchrotrons, corrupting their defensive protocols, so that they failed to fire when the swan bursters entered the system.

The outer posts had failed to detect the approach of twin swan bursters, and then the orbital synchrotrons failed to respond.

Bursters were the dyspeptic belch of a spectacularly large astrophysical meal.

And should I study neutron stars, bursters, whatever the hell they are?

For eighteen years a signal crossed space, toward a receiver gateway that had been hauled to the system of the burster neutron star.

The lady meanwhile lures the mob, alike Ogles the bursters of the horn and drum.

Heyertori had been destroyed by the swan bursters of the Chenzeme, the oceans and atmosphere boiled away in a bombardment of gamma ray lasers.

The swan bursters had left the system, on trajectories roughly parallel to Null Boundary's.

Instead, the swan bursters remained aligned for twenty hours, and she shuddered to think of the energy costs such a maneuver would require.

Only gradually did he understand that he'd been exposed to stray dust released by the two swan bursters when they'd passed so close to one another.

The Chenzeme vessels called swan bursters were perfect ring shapes too.

Far, far smaller than the gigantic swan bursters suggested by its ring shape.

Ah god, I have been afraid for so long, ever since the swan bursters took Heyertori, and I'm tired of it.