It can go either way, so brush up on the resume. And resumes should always be brushed up anyway, even the best, most stable seeming companies can have a “merger” announcement at the drop of a hat and 60 days later you’re gone. Also “merger” that’s so cute. It’s always an acquisition. Definitely let the assurances go in one ear and out the other, they may be true, they may not, but you have no way of knowing.
The key is what is the reason the buying company is acquiring your company?
Are they buying it to get the customer base, do they want some process or IP you have or are they trying to get into the blockchain based cog business Franks is so well known for?

One tip is when you meet or talk with people from the new company, ask them how long they’ve been with the company. You don’t really care how long they’ve been with the company per se, but it opens the door for them to say, oh I was with Dunlaps cog servicing company when Acme acquired us.

Great response, but won’t it take .1 second for your character to run across the screen from the point of the person doing .995c?

Actually at exactly the speed of light, you’d arrive at Alpha Centauri (actually anywhere in the universe) instantly, yes instantly.

It’s somewhere at about 71% of the speed of light where it’d take 4 years due to time dilation.