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1	->"''Velocitas Eradico''"[[note]]I am speed, and I destroy[[/note]]
2	-->-- Motto of the US Navy Railgun project
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4	->"''That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space!''"
5	-->-- Unnamed Gunnery Chief, ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''.
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7	->''"Basic physics. High mass plus high velocity equals ouch."''
8	-->-- '''Norigom''', ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet''
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10	->''"GUNS kill, leave big open holes in you that are like sores but WORSE."''
11	-->-- '''Dr Borous''', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Old World Blues''
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13	->"''An object impacting at 3 km/s delivers kinetic energy equal to its mass in TNT.''"
14	-->-- ''[[http://72.52.147.73/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=98192&start=0 Rick Robinson's First Law of Space Combat]]''
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17	->When you are going [0.6c relative to the target], you can use little cones of tin-foil as weapons. Technically, a non-exploding missile is a sabot, but at these speeds, these cee-sabots would explode pretty impressively.
18	-->-- Narration for the [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-11-05 05 November 2000]] strip, ''WebComic/SchlockMercenary''
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20	->Lines of crimson death shot from the gun blisters like the colored rays of science-fiction. The fragmentation shells would have barely scratched the double-armored hull of a rocketship--they were designed to protect ''Voyager'' when landed on a planet's surface, or as a last-ditch defense against missiles. But [[MegaMawManeuver inside the cube-ship]] the rapid-fire guns wrecked bloody devastation. Autoloaders slammed a relentless stream of ammunition into the hot breeches, powered traverse mechanisms smoothly tracked their targets, [[ZeeRust electro-mechanical predictors]] linked to gunlaying radar enabled deadly accuracy.
21	-->-- ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''
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