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The nanomissiles fired at the Affronter ship accelerated towards it in a cloud of sparkling light ahead of the drone; they were picked off, one by one, over the course of a millisecond, in a dizzy flaring scatter of light-blossoms, their tiny warheads and the remains of their anti-matter fuel erupting together; the last one to be targeted by the Affronter’s effector and forced to self-destruct had closed the range to the ship by less than a kilometre.

Behind, all nine of the tumbling nanomissiles must have been picked out by the effector as well, because they detonated too.

  • Excession, Chapter 4 - Page 135

To give an idea how much acceleration this is we will use the formula Position or Displacement = .5*acceleration*time^2.

On the low end where they only moves one meter in a millisecond we get, 2,000 kps^2.

On the high end where they move one kilometer in a millisecond we get, 2,000,000 kps^2.

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