Native drink of P. I

Usage examples of basi.

Physically, humans closely resembled over-sized basiks, small, stupid, rabbit-like creatures routinely hunted by small children armed only with sticks.

Under the banner of a basik, rampant, long teeth bared in a vicious grin, they'd battled the Krath cannibals and taken the spaceport.

The survivors of Bravo Company—all twelve of them—and the remaining two hundred and ninety members of The Basik's Own, pitted against one hundred and twenty star systems, with a population right at three-quarters of a trillion humans, and uncountable soldiers and ships.

It was Honal who had christened their patched-together mixed force of humans and Mardukans "The Basik's Own.

A parade of civan riders and the Diasprans bearing platters of atul and basik on beds of barleyrice.

And when the Basik's Own's assault was clearly going to succeed, he'd engaged the auto-destruct sequence.

Their control run molycircs are installed right into the ship's basic structure.

Give me the basic astro files, and I can figure out where we are, at least.

The admiral nearly had a hand taken off by a civan—which she apparently thought was delightful—and they were shown the atul and the basik in cages.

Afterward, Rastar, stony-faced as only a Mardukan could be, showed them the battle-stained flag of the Basik's Own.

The admiral and her guard thought it was a grand flag, and, having seen an actual basik, got the joke immediately.

But what I meant was that she was the one who created the entire concept of the Empress' Own, and established the philosophy and basic planning parameters for the Imperial Family's security.

The admiral considered him with basilisk eyes for several seconds, then tipped his chair very slightly back.

And a lot on basic culture, including their arts and crafts and their cuisine.

My Mardukans refer to themselves as the Basik's Own—bit of a joke, really.