boarding craft
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[edit]Noun
[edit]boarding craft (plural boarding crafts or boarding craft)
- (science fiction) A starship designed to allow soldiers to board an enemy vessel
- 1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 157:
- ‘Squids,’ the FORCE:space people had called the Ouster boarding craft.
- 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:
- Sir, additional contacts. Boarding crafts, and lots of 'em!
- 2008 July 26, Jason Fry, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide[1], Dorling Kindersley, →LCCN, page 105:
- A Colicoid creation (like the droideka), this Separatist boarding craft looks like a flying spike—until that spike divides into four sharp prongs that can stab through an enemy hull, revealing a central hatch used by a boarding party.