What is "ion engines"

Usage examples of "ion engines".

The quad burst of laserfire drilled the Interceptor in its twin ion engines.

He whipped around a bend in the rift and almost slammed into the ion engines of a slow-moving TIE fighter immediately ahead.

Its ion engines were pouring blue efflux into the glowball, feeding the intensity of the general radiance.

The twin ion engines at the vehicle's rear were now encrusted with a foamy substanceprobably a fireextinguishing foam sprayed on by those who had come later.

The Corellian gunships, more specifically designed to take out attacking starfighters, enclosed themselves in a cocoon of blaster fire as the ranks of independent gunners took on the mass of enemy ships, while a few desperate stragglers fled back toward the Knight Hammer, their twin ion engines coaxed to maximum power.

With a touch on his console, he expected their problems would be over and then he could get a look at those ion engines.

By the time Han and the others turned to look, the TIEs were on them, so low the air crackled with discharge from their ion engines.

The torpedo drove the ion engines out the back of the clutch, where they exploded.

Caught on their starboard sides by the superheated missiles, they began to spiral down, S-foils and ion engines slagged.

Qorl punched in full power to the twin ion engines and decided that his only chance for now was to try to escape.

It is a shame I cannot grind it up and feed it to my ion engines, but the ion engines are picky about what they eat.