midspace n.

The quarrel arises out of disputes about the colonisation of Iosia, a planet in midspace.

Our whole ship suddenly spun crazily in mid-space.

Drake’s expedition proved a classic in disaster. Two of his ten rockets perished in mid-space in a meteor swarm. Many of the men in the other rockets were struck down by the malign combination of the weightlessness, the unsoftened ultra-violet rays, and the terrific glare and gloom of mid-space.

Of course, the shape of a rocket-ship does not matter in the least out in mid-space.

[The] torpedos…could not be controlled, but darted madly and erratically hither and thither, finally to be exploded harmlessly in mid-space by the touch of some fiercely insistent, probing beam of force.

It was absurdly like a hobby-horse for a man in a space suit, and it was totally unsuitable for interplanetary work because it consumed too much power when fighting gravity. For Stan, though, starting in mid-space and with only one landing to make, it should be adequate.

At least two Hegler drives have stopped working in mid space.

Chaos! Cars were colliding in mid-space.

A ship is not a planet. She can’t hold a full ecology. She doesn’t have plate tectonics, or any broad margin of tolerance. Wastes accumulate, toxins, unusables. Adrift in mid[-]space, with no proper means of flushout and replenishment—if a crew did live through the shock, I wouldn’t give them more than twenty years.

I do not see how any legally operating taxi would be involved, and the illegal ones all come from midspace, and most have Unity drives. The most likely destination is Turbulence, the port on Hygeia. The majority of transfers takes place there and there’s only lip service paid to the law at any level.