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"The permanent government now is the anchorpeople. They don't get elected, and year after year they're responding emotionally to this or that."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Loitering Micro-Missile | ||
| A small missile that does not need line-of-sight and can move at a slow pace until it finds its target. |
| As the troops left the city, the top guns of the leading guilds took a hand, and they knew their business: weapons with curved or variating trajectories, weapons which fired around corners, micro-missiles proceeding at walking pace until within ten feet of the target. |
| Technovelgy from Invader on My Back,
by Philip E. High. Published by Ace Books in 1968 Additional resources -
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