What is "beamspace"

Usage examples of "beamspace".

Even the greenest Marine, fresh from Boot Camp, had jumped from Space-3 into Beamspace and back no fewer than half a dozen times.

No matter how exactly a Beamspace course is plotted, the reentry point into Space-3 can be off by several light-minutes.

Kingdom was short, only three light-years, and Beamspace transit took hardly more than twelve hours, standard.

It jumped into Beamspace before the Laser Gunnery Division could fix on it.

Society 437 showed Skink shuttles moving in and out of Beamspace inside a gravity well.

Not quite twelve hours, standard, travel time in Beamspace--assuming the Skinks traveled in Beamspace at the same rate as human ships.

Given the Skink ability to move in and out of Beamspace within a gravity well, the only question was how fast reinforcements could board ships.

Twenty-four hours and thirty-seven minutes after the Skink drone launched, a starship the size of a Crowe-class Amphibious Battle Cruiser popped out of Beamspace into orbit within visual range of the fast frigate CNSS Admiral J.

It dropped shuttles that popped in and out of Beamspace on their way around the globe to the Skink stronghold.

But every time the starship launched a flight of shuttles, it blinked into Beamspace, only to return at a different place to recover a flight of shuttles.

The drone that carried it must have run into something in Beamspace that scrambled it.

After a few minutes less than twelve hours in Beamspace, the Grandar Bay made the jump back to Space-3.

Despite the fact that the vessel was almost at its jump point into Beamspace, the Marines had not yet met the chief scientist or any of his party.

The shuttle blinked out of Beamspace just long enough to send out a radar pulse and get the blips back, then popped back into Beamspace.

The shuttle blinked out of Beamspace, fired vernier jets to make the course correction, blinked back into Beamspace.