battle-craft

Updated: May 28, 2025

That could indicate the fundamental difference between statecraft and war. He'd have to play with that idea a little. An Empire ship-of-the-line was almost a mile in diameter. It was more than a battle-craft; it also had political functions.

H. Beam Piper - A Slave is a Slave

Then, before the mind could grasp the fact of her vanishing, she was in the very center, the exact focus of the formation of Mekinese battle-craft. She was at the spot a Mekinese commander would most devoutly wish, because it was equidistant from all his ships, and all their missiles should arrive at the same instant when their overwhelming number could not conceivably be parried.

Murray Leinster - Talents, Incorporated