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dropship
Wiktionary
n. (context science fiction gaming English) A flying transport that drops troops or equipment onto a planet, etc. vb. (alternative form of drop ship English)
Wikipedia
A dropship or dropcraft is a fictional aerial transport vehicle featured frequently in science fiction, in particular military science fiction and space opera genres as well as video games such as Starcraft. It is used to deliver troops (or "space marines") and equipment onto a planetary surface. Notable examples of dropships include the "Retrieval Boats" from Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers and the UD4L Cheyenne from the 1986 film Aliens.
Dropship or drop ship may refer to:
- Drop shipping, a retailing practice of sending items from a manufacturer directly to a customer
- Dropship (science fiction), a military landing craft in science fiction
- Dropship: United Peace Force, a video game for the PlayStation 2
- Dropship (software), a program to copy files from Dropbox accounts using their hashes
Dropship was a set of API utilities for use with Dropbox accounts. The utilities used Dropbox's de-duplication facilities to allow files, identified by their Dropbox hashes, to be copied from Dropbox's servers.
According to the github project, dropship is no longer functional due to the backend changes Dropbox made to their service.
Usage examples of "dropship".
He moved quickly between the rows of Zemba-class dropships, which were arranged in three forward-facing rows of five.
All his troops were already either aboard the dropships, in the port hangar powering up the fifty Scorpion-class attack fliers, or on the bridge of the Draco.
Less than three seconds later the first blasts from the Jem’Hadar’s surface-mounted plasma cannon soared up from the planet and vaporized two dropships on the Zdonek’s starboard side.
All around the Zdonek, each remaining dropship was preceded by a fiery nimbus, as if a squadron of falling stars were raining down on the Jem’Hadar.
He had left the Draco only thirty seconds ago, and already he had lost eight dropships and nearly half his fighter escorts.
The Zdonek and the other dropships plummeted at supersonic speed directly toward the main Jem’Hadar encampment, which Shinzon was pleased to see was illuminated by fires and explosions wrought by his Scorpion-class fighters, which drew most of the enemy fire away from the dropships.
The dropship jerked as it sheared off the top of a spire-shaped rock formation and continued its shuddering, unbalanced descent toward the landing zone, which was now only fifty kilometers away.
The troops from the other dropships were quickly approaching, moving across the plain at a double-quick march as they followed the Zdonek’s crash scar.
Twenty of his soldiers were quickly but carefully taking apart the lab’s computer memory banks and loading them into two of the dropships, all of which had been moved to the lab’s main entrance in the crater.
The smoke thinned, and he saw the dropships less than twenty meters away.
He stopped short of the gangway to the dropship on which Vkruk awaited his return.
As the dropship ascended, the newly self-proclaimed liberator of Remus set a course for a rendezvous with a Romulan senator who had a promise to keep.
Endymion had been one of the first Hyperion cities settled after the dropship crash almost seven hundred years earlier.
High overhead, the blue-plasma braking tails of three Pax dropships cut across the starfield.
It arrived about three weeks ago, standard, and sent a dropship to the Valley of the Time Tombs.