Ur-ronn thought the heavy metal carapace was worn like a suit of clothes, and the real creatures lay inside horizontal shells.

The construct squealed as if its metal carapace were being wrenched one way and then the other.

The metal carapace of the APM split open, revealing Bashir at its controls.

As I came to that conclusion I saw a tiny network of cracks appear in the metal carapace.

I used the word "sculpture" earlier, and there was something sculpted about the creature-if one can imagine a sculpture done in chromed spikes, razor wire, blades, thorns, and smooth metal carapace.

Now I saw that where the radiant lances struck they--killed the blocks blackened under them, became lustreless; the sparkling of the tiny eyes--went out; the metal carapaces crumbled.

There had been a time, long and long ago, when he had awakened with a terrible "pain" in the metal carapace he dwelt within.

It dropped to the floor in front of them, a living machine with a metal carapace supported on translucent spidery limbs.

All speak of the crowds who've passed this way, discarding these metal carapaces like tenderbodied crabs on the floors of seas, moulting off their past anatomies.

For centuries before the Final Fax fourteen hundred years earlier, it was said that voynix were everywhere but were immobile, unresponsive- simply headless statues with leathery humps and metal carapaces.