Base
Smallest
Smallest adjective - Being the least in amount, number, or size possible.
Both words in one sentence
- True to the trope, air units have the smallest "fuel tanks" (having to return to base every 10 turns).
Source: Easy Logistics - For example the base unit, called epoc, corresponds to about 32 human years, but the smallest unit, the triad dexter (a billionth of an epoc) is "incidentally" equal to a second.
Source: Alternative Calendar - Lensman. It's mentioned that the Galactic Patrol base on Trenco has to have thorough decon procedures as the native life is so voracious that the base has been depopulated several times; even the smallest form of life rapidly reproduces and eats everything else.
Source: Decontamination Chamber
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