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Clementine had rechecked her calculations at impact-minus-ten milliseconds. She was still within satisfactory error limits of her targeted trajectory and her narrow-angle camera view was almost completely filled with the dark open space beneath the gun barrel. Although she had no sensors with which to measure her own destruction, she was able to detect the event when it came.
It was like a complete reset. All subsystems simultaneously registered the same number: 0.0000000000.