All 4 Uses of
comet
in
Ender's Game
- The buggers had already beaten the main human fleet out in the comet shield, wiping out the earliest starships and making a mockery of human attempts at high strategy—that film was often shown, to arouse again and again the agony and terror of bugger victory.†
Chpt 11 *
- Everybody thinks we have a huge fleet of warships waiting in the comet shield.†
Chpt 13
- The videos of the Second Invasion, when they were destroying our fleets out in the comet shell.†
Chpt 14
- The only name they knew was that of Peter Wiggin, the Hegemon of Earth; the only news that came was news of peace, of prosperity, of great ships leaving the littoral of Earth's solar system, passing the comet shield and filling up the bugger worlds.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(comet) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit