All 50 Uses of
oust
in
Hyperion
- An Ouster migration cluster of at least four thousand...units...has been detected approaching the Hyperion system.†
Part Prol. *
- Our evacuation task force should arrive only a short while before the Ousters.†
Part Prol.
- An Ouster migration cluster might consist of ships ranging in size from single-person ramscouts to can cities and comet forts holding tens of thousands of the interstellar barbarians.†
Part Prol.
- The FORCE joint chiefs believe that this is the Ousters' big push," said Meina Gladstone.†
Part Prol.
- Unless a military fareaster were hurriedly constructed in the Hyperion system-at staggering expense-there would be no way to resist the Ouster invasion.†
Part Prol.
- If the fleet did construct a farcaster in time and the Hegemony committed the total resources of FORCE to defending the single, distant, colonial world of Hyperion, the Worldweb ran the terrible risk of suffering an Ouster attack elsewhere on the perimeter, or-in a worst-case scenario-having the barbarians actually seizing the farcaster and penetrating the Web itself.†
Part Prol.
- The Consul tried to imagine the reality of armored Ouster troops stepping through farcaster portals into the undefended home cities on a hundred worlds.†
Part Prol.
- Our intelligence reports suggest that at least one of the seven pilgrims is an agent of the Ousters.†
Part Prol.
- Among all the other risks Gladstone was taking, the old woman had to consider the possibility that he was the spy and that she was fatlining crucial information to an Ouster agent.†
Part Prol.
- If the Ousters conquer Hyperion, their agent must be eliminated and the Time Tombs sealed at all cost.†
Part Prol.
- And there had been no threat of an Ouster invasion.†
Part Prol.
- "So the Ousters are not in-system yet?" asked Brawne Lamia.†
Part 1
- "Who knows what the Ousters will do?" he said.†
Part 1
- "Well," said Father Hoyt hesitantly, as if trying to retrieve an earlier strand of thought, "if the Hegemony convoy leaves and the Ousters take Hyperion, perhaps the occupation will be bloodless and they'll let us go about our business."†
Part 1
- The Ousters don't want to occupy Hyperion," he said.†
Part 1
- If the task force was using a full attack carrier to escort the Yggdrasili, what kind of firepower were they setting in place to meet the Ouster invasion?†
Part 1
- He was thinking about Meina Gladstone's contention that one of the group was an Ouster agent.†
Part 1
- Of the Ousters?†
Part 2
- They're waiting to fight the Ousters.†
Part 2
- Five of those SDF Death Commandos have been parked there for a week, telling everyone and each other how they are going to wipe out the Ouster Legions with their bare hands.†
Part 2
- But for all of FORCE's calculations and preparations, no one had adequately planned on the inevitable confrontation with the Ousters.†
Part 2
- The Ousters had been the single external threat to the Hegemony for the four centuries since the forebears of the barbarian hordes had left Sol System in their crude fleet of leaking O'Neill cities, tumbling asteroids, and experimental comet farm clusters.†
Part 2
- Even after the Ousters acquired the Hawking drive, it remained official Hegemony policy to ignore them as long as their swarms stayed in the darkness between the stars and limited their in-system plunderings to scooping small amounts of hydrogen from gas giants and water ice from uninhabited moons.†
Part 2
- Even the pitched battle for Lee Three had been treated as a Colonial Service problem and when the FORCE task force arrived six local years after the attack, five years after the Ousters departed, any atrocities were conveniently forgotten in favor of the view that no barbarian raid would repeat itself when the Hegemony chose to flex its muscle.†
Part 2
- In the decades which followed Lee Three, FORCE and Ouster space'forces skirmished in a hundred border areas, but except for the odd Marine encounters in airless, weightless places, there were no infantry confrontations.†
Part 2
- Stories in the Worldweb proliferated: the Ousters would never be a threat to Earthlike worlds because of their three centuries of adaptation to weight-lessness; the Ousters had evolved into something more-or less-than human; the Ousters did not have farcaster technology, would never have it, and thus never would be a threat to FORCE.†
Part 2
- Stories in the Worldweb proliferated: the Ousters would never be a threat to Earthlike worlds because of their three centuries of adaptation to weight-lessness; the Ousters had evolved into something more-or less-than human; the Ousters did not have farcaster technology, would never have it, and thus never would be a threat to FORCE.†
Part 2
- Stories in the Worldweb proliferated: the Ousters would never be a threat to Earthlike worlds because of their three centuries of adaptation to weight-lessness; the Ousters had evolved into something more-or less-than human; the Ousters did not have farcaster technology, would never have it, and thus never would be a threat to FORCE.†
Part 2
- The Ouster Hawking wake had been noticed by Hegemony monitoring stations but was misinterpreted as merely another swarm migration which would pass no closer than half a light-year to the Bressian system.†
Part 2
- Instead, with a single course correction which was not detected until the swarm was within the O6rt cloud radius, the Ousters fell on Bressia like some Old Testament plague.†
Part 2
- The Ouster swarm then put more than three thousand ships into Bressia's cislunar space and began the systematic reduction of all planetary defenses.†
Part 2
- As if to demonstrate what war had once been about, the Ousters scoured North Bressia-first with several hundred fallout-free nuclear weapons and tactical plasma bombs, then with deathbeams, and finally with tailored viruses.†
Part 2
- The Ousters obviously had not read the FORCE doctrine books.†
Part 2
- Two nuclear" devices were actually detonated against Ouster staging areas: the first was deflected by energy fields and the second destroyed a single scoutship which may have been a decoy.†
Part 2
- Ousters, it turned out, had changed physically in three centuries.†
Part 2
- But their mobile infantry's powered exoskeletons served very well and it was only, a matter of days before the black-clad, 1ong-limbed Ouster troops were swarming over South Bressia's cities like an infestation of giant spiders.†
Part 2
- The last fatline message from Bressia to the Hegemony was cut off in mid-transmission an hour after Ouster troops entered the city.†
Part 2
- Kassad's tactical display was a hopeless mess; his visor showed a garble of impossible fire vectors, blinking red phosphors where FORCE troops lay dying, and overlays of Ouster jamming ghosts.†
Part 2
- Ouster forces retreated behind a line of scorched earth, leaving only booby traps and dead civilians.†
Part 2
- The Ousters responded with a barrage of nuclear and plasma weapons, pinning the ground troops under forcefields while the Ouster infantry retreated to prepared "defenses around cities and dropship staging areas.†
Part 2
- The Ousters responded with a barrage of nuclear and plasma weapons, pinning the ground troops under forcefields while the Ouster infantry retreated to prepared "defenses around cities and dropship staging areas.†
Part 2
- Despite feints and occasional fierce battles, the Ousters retained complete control of everything within three AU of Bressia.†
Part 2
- By the time the Ousters withdrew ninety-seven days after the FORCE "rescue" of Bressia, Kassad had earned the double-edged nickname of the Butcher of South Bressia.†
Part 2
- On the last night of the Battle for Stoneheap, in the maze of dark tunnels where Kassad and his hunter-killer groups used sonics and T-5 gas to flush out the last warrens of Ouster commandos, the Colonel fell asleep amid the flame and screams and felt the touch of her long fingers on his cheek and the soft compression of her breasts against him.†
Part 2
- On the night before the Ouster retreat, Kassad left the command conference on the HS Brazil, farcast to his HQ in the Indelibles north of the Hyne Valley, and took his command car to the summit to watch the final bombardment.†
Part 2
- As tends to be the case in a universe apparently ruled by irony, Fedmahn Kassad passed unscathed through ninety-seven days of the worst fighting the Hegemony had ever seen, only to be wounded two days after the last of the Ousters had retreated to their fleeing swarmships.†
Part 2
- He was also quite sure that no local defense forces would challenge an Ouster warship.†
Part 2
- The locals would not like that, Kassad knew, but from their point of view it might be preferable to let a bit of sky fall than to antagonize the Ousters.†
Part 2
- If the planet had primitive orbital defenses or ground-based CPBs, he realized with a grim smile, it would make more sense for them to blast the wreckage than to fire on the Ouster ship.†
Part 2
- Kassad watched as the Ouster torchship stood off a hundred klicks, its defense fields blurring background stars, and launched several objects.†
Part 2
Definition:
remove someone from a position or office against their will
or:
force someone or something out
or:
force someone or something out