First steps
The gas giant.
Chapter Eight - Bai Umbra System Part 1
If they exited out of hyperspace too soon, then the rovellans would be able to turn and defend the stations before they were blocked by the destroyers, too late and not only would the _burnside_ be ripped out of hyperspace and be caught in the gas giant's
Dragon's Gate Chapter I
An outpost buried in a moon orbiting a gas giant around an unremarkable sun, it could just prove the lynchpin for their fight to break out into the galaxy past their foes. it didn't matter that their foes were humans too.
Fleet Footwork
._ the nexus is a massive space station orbiting the largest moon of a massive gas giant. i've never actually been there, but i've heard enough amazing things about the view to have put it on my mental bucket list.
Across the Schism, Chapter 1: The Short End of the Stick
It's a gas giant, which happens to have something seriously radioactive in its atmo-composure, something that makes orbital colonies a really bad idea, unless you want your kids to have six fingers and three eyes.
First Contact
The objectives of the mission were as follows: observe and investigate the properties of the gas giant determine if any useful natural resources might be present within the gas giant investigate and map the various natural satellites determine if any
Adastra
Adastra would have amply deserved to bear the name of planet if the chance of the planetary rounds had not caused it to form in the gravitational sphere of the gas giant filled with deadly clouds.
Pathogenesis: A White Warning
It was a moon to a gas giant, and the boiling red clouds contrasted sharply with the frozen moon. chira followed the last of the directions sent by the white ship and landed. her ship shuddered and its feet locked onto the icy ground.
Here, Fishy Fishy!
Shuddering at a sudden resistance from the direction of the gas giant's northern pole. "that squall in sector five-three is getting testy," the old grizzly churled into his throat mic. "_and_ big enough to swallow a moon.
Canis Minor
Seeker 3, in transit from gas giant ayan to ice giant waveholm sent back an image that nearly started a fight. caution prevailed, and the next alert described two glowing ellipsoids, golden-yellow.
Reunion: Prologue
"just rocks and a few gas giants, no signs of any kind of life." just like every other time, he silently added.
Eight Gems In A Holochip Case
"because they're formed within the bellies of gas giants," the grizzly to the captain’s left intoned. korvan, lead navigator. "where unimaginable pressure crushes them into the densest stones you’re ever like to see.”