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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
I agree that you do need to require a minimum thrust as well as a minimum delta-V, I should have mentioned that constraint.
I don't think you need to worry about the time-scale of the burn, because it will necessarily be shorter than the 20 second turn and possibly shorter than the 1-second turn.
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The reason that the amount of delta-V changes when timescale changes is that the amount of time over which you need to dodge changes.
For example, if you need to dodge ten laser bolts over ten seconds, you need to expend x Delta-V. If you need to dodge one hundred laser bolts over one hundred seconds, you need to expend 10x Delta-V, because you need to dodge ten times the number of laser bolts spread over ten times the amount of time, same as if you were dodging each 10 laser bolt burst every ten seconds individually.
This is not a Murphy's Rule.