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n. (context scifi English) A spaceship analogous to a cruiser.
Usage examples of "starcruiser".
Grendel was under quarantine now, guarded by half a dozen starcruisers.
Its shields snapped on again, and the sensor spikes shimmered, but there was no trace anywhere of the two starcruisers that had been attacking it.
Imperial starcruisers that ambushed it off Mistworld, and now it fell like a stone toward the unknown surface below.
It had also never been intended to take the kind of punishment Imperial starcruisers could hand out, and it was something of a miracle that the ship had held together so long.
The planet was falling away below them, but a dozen starcruisers were coming after them.
Disrupter cannon fired in sequence, one after the other, so that the starcruisers could maintain a constant fire.
The good news is that the six starcruisers who went chasing off after the Hadenniun ship apparently lost contact with it.
Lionstone put the planet under quarantine, and left starcruisers there to enforce it.
It looked heavy and clumsy, compared to the sleek starcruisers he was used to.
And since the Imperial Fleet currently consists of maybe a dozen starcruisers held together with baling wire and prayer, the Empire is helpless to do anything to save the colonists and prisoners from their fate.
Powered by the new alien-derived stardrive, they were effectively unstoppable by anything save the few remaining E-class starcruisers in the Imperial Fleet.
He then tried splitting up the Fleet, dispatching his most powerful starcruisers to defend those planets in most immediate danger.
They looked big as they rose up above the tarmac, but were minuscule in comparison with vessels like the huge starcruisers that never got closer to the ground than high orbit.
As he watched, a thousand horribly beweaponed Zirzla robot starcruisers came searing round the dark shadow of a moon, silhouetted against the blinding disc of the star Xaxis, and the ship simultaneously unleashed a vicious blaze of hideously incomprehensible forces from all its orifices against them.
As he watched, a thousand horribly beweaponed Zirzla robot starcruisers came searing round the dark shadow of a moon, silhouetted against the blinding disc of the star Xaxis, and the ship simultaneously unleashed a vicious blaze of hideously incomprehensible forces from all its orifices against them.