John Scalzi said on Twitter, "Happy Aphelion! Now for the next three months you can go outside, point at the sun, and scream "OMG it's coming straight at us!""
In a game of interplanetary kinetic kill I'd wager to whup anyone with that viewpoint, but the game would take all of those three months and more to play out. Patience rules in reaction-driven spacecraft.
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