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- noun Plural form of
hyperdrive .
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Examples
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The things you'll never see in Galaxy include the clichéd themes of space opera, or westerns in space, with "hyperdrives" and "six gun fights."
Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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The things you'll never see in Galaxy include the clichéd themes of space opera, or westerns in space, with "hyperdrives" and "six gun fights."
Antiquarian Weird Tales: Our Pulp Fiction Heritage and the Significance of Moldering Magazines Chris Perridas 2008
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One thing that never fails to charm me is how the future in many Japanese SF works is just modern-day Japan, only with robots and hyperdrives stuck on.
Japanese SF and English-language original SF « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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From the relativistic region you will launch your courier torpedoes, strapped together and hyperdrives operating simultaneously.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: A Circus Of Hells - Poul Anderson Blue Tyson 2008
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In a short time, yes, we've figured out black holes and pulsars and hyperdrives and neutrino-wave communication, and maybe all that makes us think we're pretty hot stuff.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: They Hide We Seek - Robert Silverberg Blue Tyson 2008
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In a short time, yes, we've figured out black holes and pulsars and hyperdrives and neutrino-wave communication, and maybe all that makes us think we're pretty hot stuff.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Isaac Asimov's Universe The Diplomacy Guild - Martin H. Greenberg Blue Tyson 2008
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Even as a very young teen, I was enough of a hardcore SF nerd that the somewhat anti-science nature of the plots and the complete lack of even a nod to science reality in the special effects (sound in space, spaceships that fly aerodynamically like airplanes, ships that can fly faster than light even when their hyperdrives are broken) really rubbed me the wrong way.
Star Wars Must Die 2008
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I can see lawyers spooling up their hyperdrives to go after airport agents who quarantine sniffly airline passengers.
bac-o-bits 2009
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Yes, it had a hyperdrive, and Star Wars hyperdrives can cross the galaxy in a couple days.
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Thats the problem with those aging hyperdrives, punching max warp always carries higher risk of suffering either some form of minor structural integrity failure as in your case, or even more embarrassingly, total loss of containment.
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