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  • Our ultraluminal entry flash filled the lounge with white light for an instant.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • Since the tender was not a starship, it would have to travel home to its mommy using conventional sublight iner-tialess drive, while Chispa, with ultraluminal capability, had zippier options.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • But there were very few noncommercial ultraluminal vessels docked at Manu-kura, and their owners were wealthy vacationers, hardly types to respond favorably to a proposition from a poorly documented stranger who might be a pirate's shill.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • My intention was to reach a position far enough from Kedge-Lockaby so that I would not disrupt electromagnetic systems on its surface when I made my hyperspatial leap, yet close enough to the planet so that it would eclipse the dazzling EM pulse of my ultraluminal crossover from the rinky-dink sensors of the tender.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • The broom mothership has ultraluminal capability to enable it to move between solar systems.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

  • "stretched stars" effect of ultraluminal travel, truncated to an eye-blink by the minimum one ross pseudovelocity I had programmed.

    Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

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