What is "crucian"

Usage examples of "crucian".

Battle of Reymiirnagar, where the Crucian fighters got their baptism of fire.

But he was still a Crucian, and the planet ahead meant something more to him than it did to his Human and Orion and Ophiuchi comrades.

Alpha Crucian Republic, or an Alpha Crucian province of the Domain, differ from Sector Alpha Crucis of the Empire?

During that time he was feasted on fresh-water fish such as carp and crucian, of which large numbers were netted from Lake Biwa in the inlet at the foot of the mountain.

The Crucian pilots displayed the raggedness one might expect of newbies, but little of the awkwardness and none of the hesitancy.

They stood at the transparency and watched the light of Alpha Centauri A glint off the flanks of the Crucian ships.

In addition to carp and crucians, roaches, and the compulsory pike, the lake contained a red-blazed calf that could talk on St.

Rather, it had finally reached a system where its sole avenue of further advance had been a closed warp point through which the Crucians retired .

Demons was enough to win a wholehearted commitment from the Crucians to join the Grand Alliance at such time as it could be contacted.

Humans had to be taught the kind of spatial sense the Crucians got gratis from their upbringing and from their chromosomes.

The Crucians were physically and psychologically able to at least partly suppress their need for room, which otherwise would have made space vehicles out of the question for them.

Khanate, the Crucians had declared neutrality when their Human friends began trying to kill one another.

Now that the Alliance had finished comparing the Crucians astrogation data bases with its own, as well, the same correlation had become clear to its astrographers.

At banquets in those old days they served a large assortment of dishes and sweets, few of which would be specially appetizing to moderns: glutinous rice cake, fried and sweetened rice cake, steamed ear-shells, dried fowl, the sweet fish of the Uji River, the crucian of Omi, porgy powdered and seasoned, boiled salmon, broiled octopus, large lobsters, large and small tangerines, mandarins, persimmons dried on skewers, and many others.

Despite all the difficulties-language barriers, technological incompatibilities, building up a Crucian infrastructure that could make the machines that made other machines-fighter production had commenced earlier than anyone had a right to expect.