[TML] WMDs (was Re: Imperial Multi-world Polities)
Kelly St. Clair 12 Aug 2020 17:10 UTC
On 8/12/2020 4:16 AM, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:48:29 -0400, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote to Freelance
> Traveller:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 7:34 PM Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com>
>> wrote:
>> This 'nuke' part is a bit silly to my mind. Can you have charged particle
>> weapons? Can you have meson guns? Can you have disintegrators? The
>> prohibition should be far wider than simply nuclear missiles.
>
> Well, that prohibition was from fairly early on, and may have pre-dated the
> inclusion of CPWs and Meson weapons. And 'disintegrators' _still_ aren't
> part of the canonical setting...
In my own sillier mood(s), I imagine:
"It's right here, you aren't allowed to have fission or fusion warheads.
But there's nothing on the books about antimatter, so..." *shrug*
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