> Sounds like gun control. Many pirate types would modify/remove the
safeguards anyway...
Well, you want to make sure you don't nuke up and ruin the planets you are
fighting for.
Which reminds me. CT old-timers will remember all the fuss about, "why do
Traveller characters have all these stupid old-fashioned cutlass skills?
And they call themselves a science fiction game. Stoopid Traveller."
Once upon a time Traveller talked a lot about blade weapons and snub
pistols, because when you're out in space it doesn't make a whole lot of
sense to go running around blasting holes inside of the only thing (the
ship) that is keeping you all alive. IMTU I made a consistent point about
that, that you were always shooting out environmental controls, drive
controls, power conduits causing fires, depressurizing compartments, or
getting sprayed by the on-board fire-suppression system when you fired
weapons aboard a starship. I even had the principle that people would
space people on their own side that would do that for stupidly risking
everyone's life for short-term gain.
Dave