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"text": "Stardrive section of a Galaxy-class starship.\nMemory Alpha, Secondary hull, 2005"
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"text": "Atlantis, utilizing its star drive, was able to travel from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Pegasus Galaxy, a distance of between 3.26 and 3.5 million light years.\nGateWorld, Stardrive"
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"text": "Scorpio is damaged in a collision course with a asteroid and the Scorpio crew require a star-drive from Federation scientist Dr. Plaxton so they can out-run all Federation pursuit ships\nIMDB, \"Stardrive\""
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"text": "Nebula moved back to her main console and looked to the stardrive unit's monitors immediately discovering the grim truth.\niUniverse, \"The Godmaker Legacy: The Derelict: A Novel\", Kirkland D. Casey, 2003, pp.171, →ISBN"
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"text": "The StarDrive was discovered on the planet Centaurus\nNESFA Hymnal, \"Reminder\", B. Coulson, 1976, pp.12"
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"text": "no star drive yet devised could produce that kind of acceleration\n\"Orbitsville Departure\", B. Shaw, 1983, pp.190"
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"text": "Every race they met on their way through the Core had a 'star drive based on a different theory.\n\"Light\", M.J. Harrison, 2002, pp.135"
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"text": "The voice of the Organic Computer began counting down the seconds until the star drive was cut\nAmazing Stories, \"We All Died At Breakaway Stations\", B.C. Meredith, 1969"
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"text": "Man's horizons exploded to the rims of the universe with the perfection of the star drive\nAstounding SF, \"Blood's Rover\", C. Oliver, 1952"
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"text": "They'll know the principles of the star drive in a few more generations\nAstounding SF, \"Genius\", P. Anderson, 1948"
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"text": "We will have to wait until they move off. I should be able to calculate their direction and get a rough idea of the distance from the power signature when they activate their Stardrive\nAliens, \"Guardian Generations\", Clive Osborne Rapley, 2010, pp.67, →ISBN"
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"text": "When they engaged the Star Drive to escape, the hunter mine had closed to ninety metres, inside the Star Drive's field of influence.\nTrafford Publishing, \"Origin: The Heritage Files - Phase One\", Roger Hydes, 2008, →ISBN"
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"text": "—or century: humans can endure star-drive!\nArc Manor, \"The Colors of Space\", Marion Zimmer Bradley, 2008, pp.97, →ISBN"
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"text": "He was also beginning to lose faith that the recently recovered and bizarrely incoherent Ehrehin was really capable of delivering a working singularity- powered stardrive prototype any time in the foreseeable future.\nSimon and Schuster, \"The Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do\", Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, 2007, pp.434, →ISBN"
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"text": "Whatever kind of creatures they were, and whatever the disaster that threatened their planet, they had a star-drive to take them out of the solar system to another star.\nPrologue Books, \"Scavengers in Space\", Alan E. Nourse, 2013, →ISBN"
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"text": "What could be gleaned from study of the landing craft was as far from the stardrive as their first steam engine had been from that spaceship itself; there was no chance of premature contact with other races.\n\"The Far Side of Evil\", Sylvia Louise Engdahl, 1989, pp.158"
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"a device used to propel a spacecraft through interstellar distances"
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"word": "jump drive"
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"text": "Stardrive section of a Galaxy-class starship.\nMemory Alpha, Secondary hull, 2005"
},
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"text": "Atlantis, utilizing its star drive, was able to travel from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Pegasus Galaxy, a distance of between 3.26 and 3.5 million light years.\nGateWorld, Stardrive"
},
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"text": "Scorpio is damaged in a collision course with a asteroid and the Scorpio crew require a star-drive from Federation scientist Dr. Plaxton so they can out-run all Federation pursuit ships\nIMDB, \"Stardrive\""
},
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"text": "Nebula moved back to her main console and looked to the stardrive unit's monitors immediately discovering the grim truth.\niUniverse, \"The Godmaker Legacy: The Derelict: A Novel\", Kirkland D. Casey, 2003, pp.171, →ISBN"
},
{
"text": "The StarDrive was discovered on the planet Centaurus\nNESFA Hymnal, \"Reminder\", B. Coulson, 1976, pp.12"
},
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},
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"text": "Every race they met on their way through the Core had a 'star drive based on a different theory.\n\"Light\", M.J. Harrison, 2002, pp.135"
},
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"text": "The voice of the Organic Computer began counting down the seconds until the star drive was cut\nAmazing Stories, \"We All Died At Breakaway Stations\", B.C. Meredith, 1969"
},
{
"text": "Man's horizons exploded to the rims of the universe with the perfection of the star drive\nAstounding SF, \"Blood's Rover\", C. Oliver, 1952"
},
{
"text": "They'll know the principles of the star drive in a few more generations\nAstounding SF, \"Genius\", P. Anderson, 1948"
},
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"text": "We will have to wait until they move off. I should be able to calculate their direction and get a rough idea of the distance from the power signature when they activate their Stardrive\nAliens, \"Guardian Generations\", Clive Osborne Rapley, 2010, pp.67, →ISBN"
},
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"text": "When they engaged the Star Drive to escape, the hunter mine had closed to ninety metres, inside the Star Drive's field of influence.\nTrafford Publishing, \"Origin: The Heritage Files - Phase One\", Roger Hydes, 2008, →ISBN"
},
{
"text": "—or century: humans can endure star-drive!\nArc Manor, \"The Colors of Space\", Marion Zimmer Bradley, 2008, pp.97, →ISBN"
},
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"text": "He was also beginning to lose faith that the recently recovered and bizarrely incoherent Ehrehin was really capable of delivering a working singularity- powered stardrive prototype any time in the foreseeable future.\nSimon and Schuster, \"The Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do\", Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, 2007, pp.434, →ISBN"
},
{
"text": "Whatever kind of creatures they were, and whatever the disaster that threatened their planet, they had a star-drive to take them out of the solar system to another star.\nPrologue Books, \"Scavengers in Space\", Alan E. Nourse, 2013, →ISBN"
},
{
"text": "What could be gleaned from study of the landing craft was as far from the stardrive as their first steam engine had been from that spaceship itself; there was no chance of premature contact with other races.\n\"The Far Side of Evil\", Sylvia Louise Engdahl, 1989, pp.158"
}
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