sked

Updated: May 20, 2025

"You can play God when you're on sked, with a ship-full of trained dogs to bite for you, but out here where nobody has ever come back from I make my own law with this!" He patted his side pocket. "Draw it, then!" Deston's voice now had all the top-deck rasp of his rank. "Or crawl!" The First Officer had not moved; his right hand still hung quietly at his side.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Subspace Survivors