I totally agree about influences. Anyone who wishes to draw comparisons between Captain Jager in my universe and Honor Harrington would be pretty much right on the money... But that's what it's all about...bringing imagination to life. Or something like that.
I just read "Blackout". This is a great story! Keep it up!
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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.