The shuttle had been a great big hunk of metal when the point defense cannons hit it. Now it was almost certainly a great number of relatively small pieces of metal with pretty close to the same mass moving at very nearly the same speed. They just traded being hit with a shuttle-sized slug for being hit with a shuttle’s mass of shrapnel.
Naomi pressed her hand to her lips. “How long before —”
A bit about the season of the Etruscan Saeculum we find ourselves in now on my Patreon. (not behind a paywall)
January Thaw
No, I don't trust the #government. Are you mad? #Authoritarian government is not demonstrably better than authoritarian #plutocracy. However, the aristocracy that lost power toward the end of the last human #saeculum had one fundamental advantage over today's #billionaires: they had #expectations about their #moral #conduct. Nothing protects us from a #wealthy #sociopath with #totalitarian aspirations.
- an anarchist
Khairul Hisham
Jo Graham
Sigma (she/her)