"Understand that you're now in a superheated atmosphere," he said.
Some died in the barrage, others when the superheated atmosphere burned them down.
She grinned in the darkness, which was gradually being suffused by a gentle, oven-like light coming from the superheated atmosphere trapped behind the forcefield.
As she reached the star, she dove into the corona, finally turning, barely above the chromosphere, shields at full, and skimmed along the superheated stellar atmosphere.
The clouds of the planet's superheated atmosphere were dark; the planet appeared as a gray circle against the black of space.
They coalesced, squishingly at first, the encircling warships drifting lightly away before a cosmically violent blast of superheated atmosphere.
The internal components of the transceiver were fairly delicate, and they wouldn't last long exposed to the pod's superheated atmosphere.
This is because its superheated atmosphere must be puffed up into a thick but tenuous layer surrounding it.
It was not the exhaust of the impulse engines but the luminous particles of the superheated atmosphere in the wake of the starting giant.
Beyond the shelf lay the seabed and the equatorial dust, an endless maelstrom where the superheated atmosphere was rotating frantically about the dying planet.