What is "chalder"

Usage examples of "chalder".

But it would mean a trip through the water-filled Chalder wards, and your protective envelopes won't be ready for another six, maybe seven days.

After six days and two and a half nights darting about like an overworked minnow among her outsized Chalders, she had been given two whole days in which she could do whatever she liked— provided that part of the free time was spent at her studies.

Disappointed, the Chalder turned and swam away, with detached vegetation eddying its wake.

The Chalders are one of the few intelligent species whose personal names are used only between mates, members of the immediate family, or very special friends.

Perhaps the Hudlars and Chalders had something in common besides great strength.

Your Chalder friend from the AUGL ward makes this one look like a pussy-cat.

Despite this he was on the Forty-sixth Level observation gallery, his suit still streaming Chalder water, just fifteen minutes after leaving O'Mara's office, and Prilicla arrived close behind him.

The direct sound pickup was no help, either all he could hear was the deep, water-borne growl of the ward's emergency siren and too many voices jabbering at once, until one very loud, translated Chalder voice roared out above the others.

Looking confused the Chalder drifted away, and a few seconds later they were in the lock leading to the air-filled section.

I'm thinking of species like the Chalders and Hudlars and Melfans who are armored already.

They were flanked by two crab-like Melfans who were easily capable of scuttling along twice as fast as the Drambons could roll, while a thirty-foot scaled and tentacled Chalder swam ponderously above them ready to discourage local predators with its teeth, claws and great bony club of a tail-although in Conway's opinion one look from any one of its four extensible eyes would be enough to discourage anything with the slightest will to live.

The Chalder arrived then and with a swipe of its armored tail cleared the Hudlar's back while simultaneously its enormous maw opened and crashed shut on the second predator's neck.

The vehicle shuddered every few seconds as predators crashed against its hull, and conditions were so cramped that if the Chalder moved at all everyone but the armor-plated Hudlar would have been mashed flat.

They are simply aware of other beings and objects around them and, by using their eyes and a mechanism similar to the empathic faculty which my race possesses, are able to identify friend and foe-they attacked the Drambon predators without hesitation, remember, but ignored the much more visually frightening Chalder doctor who was feeling friendship for them.

Above them the enormous Chalder had been hanging in a cramped position for far too long, and the other Earth humans must have been finding their pressure suits as irksome as Conway was finding his.