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| Combat Wasp | ||
| Drone craft able to carry and direct a variety of submunitions. |
| The two opposing swarms of combat wasps engaged; attacking and defending drones splitting open, each releasing a barrage of submunitions. Space seethed with directed energy beams. Electronic warfare pulses popped and burned up and down the electromagnetic spectrum, trying to deflect, goad, confuse, harass... |
| Technovelgy from The Reality Dysfunction,
by Peter F. Hamilton. Published by Pan Books in 1996 Additional resources -
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