Bloch
stepped into the waist-high transformer pit and wrestled the gun onto its bipod
in firing position. Santini simply
pushed the ammo dolly in ahead of himself.
The cannisters were padded against shock, but a direct hit from a laser
might penetrate. The best result the
crew could hope for then was a low-order explosion that might not kill
them. If the bead of deuterium at the
heart of each cartridge detonated, hard suits weren’t going to make any
difference to the resulting thermonuclear explosion.
(from Redliners by David Drake)
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