The shard, in fact, looked a lot like the kind of thing a spacecraft hull from that era might have been made of.

"Not much to see, actually," said the factory manager, waving a gloved hand toward the vats where microscopic nanomachines were constructing spacecraft hulls of pure diamond, built atom by atom from carbon soot mined out of asteroids.

Keeping his eye on the reflection of the distant spacecraft hull he rose on his toes, flexing his bootsoles to cut off their magnetic attraction to the metal of the hull beneath them, and sprang outward from the ship.

Or maybe I resent the fact that General Products holds a near monopoly on spacecraft hulls and isn't owned by human beings.

They are selling no more spacecraft hulls.

The robot video scanner moved left and right across the spacecraft hull.

General Products: A company owned by Pierson's puppeteers that sold mostly spacecraft hulls.

In human space they sold almost nothing but spacecraft hulls.

If you look carefully, you'll find all fourteen black holes, two Puppeteer-built General Products spacecraft hulls, egg-shaped Jinx, and... there.

If we are both enclosed by the same spacecraft hull, a rupture is bad luck for both of us.