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alt. (label en science fiction) a device used to propel a spacecraft through interstellar distances n. (label en science fiction) a device used to propel a spacecraft through interstellar distances
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StarDrive is a 4X real-time strategy video game by Zero Sum Games, it was released for Microsoft Windows in April 2013. The game was funded through Kickstarter, raising $17,676 in its December 2011 crowdfunding campaign. The player's goal is to dominate the galaxy with one of the eight races through diplomacy and war while developing new technologies, exploring new star systems and colonizing new planets. The game received a mixed critical reception, generating a score of 61/100 on reviews aggregation website Metacritic. Its sequel, StarDrive 2 contrastingly adopts turn-based strategy gameplay and was released in April 2015.
Usage examples of "stardrive".
There were only two stable stardrive speeds, three light-years per hour and twice that, with only small ships like fighters and skitters able to achieve the higher equilibrium.
Powered by the new alien-derived stardrive, they were effectively unstoppable by anything save the few remaining E-class starcruisers in the Imperial Fleet.
Strange lights radiated briefly and were gone as stardrives collapsed and released their energies.
Lionstone had had more than just a few E class star-cruisers to call on, with their new stardrives and superior weapons systems, things might have been different.
Families work here, building the stardrives, doing work too delicate and too important to be trusted to machines.
The metallic forests that covered the world from pole to pole, provider of the heavy metals that power our traditional stardrives, have been completely harvested.
The FTA had grown out of something that had been set up long ago back on Earth, before the days of stardrives and space exploration.
Empire provides the Wolfes with new military satellites, with sensors powerful enough to punch right through the weather, to ensure uninterrupted production of the new stardrive.
OutSystem duty, even allowing for the Baumier StarDrive, we may never see you again.
A flavour of the material is given by these monograph titles: ``The Unique Brain Development of the Chrysto-peds of Srom Norba X', `Fire Worship and Sacrifice on Srom Sodrat IF, `The History of the Intergalactic Scientific Institute', and `The Application of Unified Field Theory and the Mechanics of the Stardrive to Space Travel'.
Viewers would be able to see the real conditions on Technos III when the Wolfe Family graciously allowed cameras to observe the first completed stardrives coming off the production line, at a special ceremony in two days' time.
You know, Brom, the more we get into this, the less I like the idea of them sitting out there ready to explode across space as soon as they reinvent the stardrive.