I dunno.
I first heard of the term in relation to Aliens, and then later in Battletech and Renegade Legion. All those guys are ships made for in-system travel and the trip to a planet after the Jump Ship (in BT, I don't know if the ship in Aliens was a Jump Ship) comes out of FTL/Lightspeed.
Does anyone call transport planes dropships IRL?
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