It was difficult for a group of ships to maintain station at the best of times, and the problems increased with their absolute velocity.
Horizontal separation was only about twenty feet, but both were maintaining station beautifully.
But the watch passed in the routine of pinging, zigzagging, and maintaining station.
"At this distance, we're fighting approximately six hundred gravities to maintain station."
They had to continuously maintain station outside his ports, while he and his men enjoyed the Irish countryside.
Set course for Kayran Rock and maintain station as planned.
"The flankers will be having difficulty maintaining station over this terrain."
Easy enough even if they maintained station; the destroyers wouldn't be visible long enough to get most of them.
Take the ship back out to five kilometers and maintain station there.
At night, the flyers would depend on instruments to maintain station on each other.