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n. (mother ship English)
Usage examples of "mother ships".
The other multistoried eating palaces that floated nearby were still blazing with lights, gaudy and noisy, filled to capacity, their new, hastily erected, temporary kitchens on barges beside their mother ships, cauldrons smoking, fires under the cauldrons, and a mass of cooks and helpers like so many bees.
What he didn't realize was that the combat craft ferried in from the other, abandoned mother ships were so many that the Masters couldn't man them all with the functioning clones and mecha left to them.
The remote camera showed a handful of shuttles with rapidly dying Khieevi piloting them erratically towards the mother ships.
Some still dropped from the sides of their mother ships, laden down with Naren nobles and their guards.
As supervisor for transporting the illegal immigrants from the mother ships, Chu Deng was also responsible for the execution of those unfit for slave labor.
Unlike American procedures, the Brits assigned helicopter names associated with that of their mother ships.
A series of four mother ships, with their thin walls, their huge accumulator volume, must be stripped at once, .
XO-mounted EDMs sped out to interpose their false drive fields between the enemy and their mother ships.
It knew they must come to it - and that it lacked the speed to overtake the mother ships from which they operated.