What is "swooper"

Usage examples of "swooper".

X-wing reached low Borleias orbit as the Am-muud Swooper lumbered along behind.

Pyria, but he believed that the course would take Ammuud Swooper in the general direction of the Deep Core worlds.

Wedge accelerated away from the Ammuud Swooper and toward the oncoming squadron of coralskippers.

He expected Ammuud Swooper to turn tail, dive hack into the atmosphere, and try to find a safer exit vector, but the freighter came stolidly on in his wake.

Ammuud Swooper maintained her original course, and none of the coralskippers remained directly in her path.

And in the distance, Ammuud Swooper continued plodding her way toward her hyperspace launch point.

Turning his back on the Ammuud Swooper, leaving her to be destroyed by the Yuuzhan Vong when she was so close to escape, would not allow him to live.

The thug whooped with glee as his swoop shot past over her, a triumphal shout that turned into a squawk of surprise as Shada tucked her legs to her chest and kicked hard straight up, catching the swoop just forward of the directional thrust nozzles and bucking the swooper right out of the saddle.

The swooper spun the vehicle hard around, clearly hoping to catch her from the side with the long nose of the swoop.

In fact, we did not dare bring our swooper any lower than five miles for fear that its capacity might be reflected in their instruments.

At this point, the swooper I had sent south toward the city went into action as a diversion, to keep the Hans at home.

Kirk murmured, keeping a careful eye on the darting movements of the, well, swooper was an apt terIn.

He wrenched with all his strength at the bar on his right arm, but the swooper coil encircling his upper torso was as unyielding as an anaconda.

Wyomings possessed one swooper completely sheathed with inertron and counterweighted with ultron.

But a shielded swooper, while impervious to the dis ray, was helpless against squadrons of Han aircraft, for the Hans developed a technique of playing their beams underneath the swooper in such fashion as to suck it down flutteringly into the vacuum so created, until they brought it more or less violently to earth.