DN - 1-2KM/s

“It’s fun,” I say. Calamity ducks her head, as if to say go on. I take a moment to try and collect my thoughts. Flying is wholly unnatural to a human being, and yet, when I’m up there, it feels like the most natural thing in the world. It’s hard to put into words. “There’s this great feeling of speed, and weightlessness. Or, no, not weightlessness. I can feel my weight until I get into orbit—”

“You can get into orbit?”

“Uh, yeah, I guess I can. I have to work at it, though. I have to get up to one or two kilometers per second to get that high; I can only really go that fast when I’m at high altitude already, so, I can do it, but it takes some effort.”

- Dreadnought, Chapter 16