"It's the ion stream," he reported, his fingers stabbing at controls as he spoke.

False sunlight flared yellow as the ion streams collided and burned.

With a shrug of resignation, he closed off the encoded ion stream, put the shock-sword back on the wall.

In order to speed up the ion stream, you'd have to do two things.

He thrust his arm back into the ion stream.

Using both arms, she began to pull herself up, but at that instant another ion stream struck the parapet full on.

But the far side is fully exposed, and thus should receive a somewhat greater proportion of the ion stream.

He fed the ion stream to the reactionless drive and cut in the course-correcting side rockets.

Then the ion stream struck the ground below, and the screen became a blue glare.

Beam loss occurs when the ion stream goes off course.