The Sail (constellation)

Usage examples of vela.

They had to cross a few shifting currents before they found one coursing in the desired direction, but from that point on, they made smooth and steady headway toward the distant shore of Vela Oasis.

An apparently impenetrable layer of ice separated them from the liquid sea that might otherwise carry them toward Vela Oasis.

The Vela Oasis starport loomed before them like a great golden-spired city on the horizon.

Mariella Flaire was little in evidence during the rest of the flight into Vela Oasis.

By the time they landed on Vela Oasis, they had a new contract with Flaire and a tentative flight schedule.

The city of Carnelius on Vela Oasis was a noisy and exotic place, one that reminded Jael of the lore of the ancient Middle East on Homeworld Earth, long before Humankind had first set out for the stars.

In the shipdays following, they rigged down a long channel in the Flux, following a heavily trafficked pathway among the several worlds of the Vela cluster.

And so they had a voyage some seventeen days long crossing the few light-years that spanned the Vela cluster.

The time passed, and before they knew it, they had already made their call at Vela Delta Prime, where Ar looked up a Clendornan friend from his pre-rigging days and Jael spent a day sunning herself on the sandy shore of a warm, hissing ocean.

There was a bed in the corner of the room which Brianne had rushed from earlier, and Alena walked towards it, Vela and Jareth close behind.

I do not think Queen Vela would press her sodomite son into marriage, were there any other branches of the royal bloodline capable of producing a future heir to the kingdom.

Warmonger, you are under arrest by joint order of Queen Vela and King Cronel of Glacia.

Queen Vela had dull reddish hair, beady eyes, painfully gaudy taste in gowns, and seemed excessively fond of jewelry.

But before she could ponder the question, a door opened and Queen Vela swept into the room.

Moreya bowed her head, refusing to reward Vela with any outward reaction.