What is "ramscoops"

Usage examples of "ramscoops".

Ezr Vinh’s parents and his two aunts owned about one-third of the expedition: two ramscoops and three landing craft.

But even the most terrible error probably wouldn’t kill anyone—there were still the bactries on the ramscoops, all kept in isolation from one another.

Instead of trickling in over a decade or two, five thousand ramscoops from more than three hundred worlds were falling inward toward the Namqem system, all to arrive within an Msec of one another.

Here and there across this galaxy we see ramscoops and ancient radio transmissions.

Without depot civilizations in between, your ramscoops will fail in less than a thousand years.

Even from here, she could see Gaijin flower-ships circling the planet, the giant ramscoops of the alien craft visible as tiny discs.

Gaijin ships orbited Earth, tracking from pole to pole, their ramscoops casting golden light that glimmered from the ice and the oceans, mapping and studying, still following their own immense, patient projects.

They made a sweep too fast for the outsiders to dodge, but it was the ramscoops that saved us.

If they had been bottom luggers, ships with ramscoops, they could close the gap in less than fifty years.