space lane n.

Though I was peculiarly affected by the strangeness of our position, big Hal Kur was even more so. He had traveled the space-lanes of the solar system for the greater part of his life, and now all of his time-honored rules of interplanetary navigation had been upset by this new cruiser, a craft entirely without gravity-screens, which was flashing from sun to sun propelled by invisible vibrations only.

No longer would fliers of the space lanes fear them. But there were other outlaws.

It is believed Tarana arrived secretly on Lirius on a space ship, travelling out of patrolled space-lanes.

We're way off the regular space lanes. The first the System will know of us will be the landing of the Transparent on Ganymede.

Maybe there has been a rebellion in this sector. The winner may be systematically mopping up all Patrol bases. That would leave him free to rule the space lanes as he pleases.

The Lords of the Instrumentality were relieved to note that when the Apicians left they closed the space lane behind them. No one quite knows how they closed it, or what defenses they had. Mankind. salivating and ashamed, did not push the pursuit hotly.

If they players would rather explore one world in detail than flit among a hundred, build one without a starport, far off the space lanes.

There was nothing desirable about Starbase 86. It was far removed from the more frequently traveled space lanes.

One more ship must have been dispatched hours behind its companions, on its way from New Earth to my planet. Since Starbiter was headed for New Earth now, we must be traveling in the same space lane.

Another reskin is Star Trek Catan. It’s the trading and road-building game Settlers of Catan, but with space lanes instead of roads and exotically named chemicals instead of Ore, Wood, and so on.