Re: Dave Nilsen on Missiles in TNE

Kerry Harrison [email removed] transferred the following from GEnie:

> Subject: Dave Nilsen on Missiles in TNE
>      ... However, the use of the Imperial Laws of War to explain
>      why nukes were never used before was, I always thought, a very
>      artificial and unsatisfactory device. Nukes would have been easily
>      obtainable at Imperial tech levels, as they are now. But we will need
>      to come up with more convincing reasons for why people don't use them
>      than the long arm of the law. I would think that the vivid example of
>      84 years of civil war and virus rampage (there are still hundreds or
>      thousands of radioactively hot worlds) might have convinced people to
>      be a little more thoughtful.


Hmmm...this reminds me.  Have nuclear dampers been phased out of the TNE
rules?  If not, radioactive clean-up could proceed fairly quickly.

Personally, I've never had a problem with the Imperial Law angle, since
the existence of some sort of (undefined for the most part) law enforcement
in the Imperium was used as a deterrent threat for a lot of activities.

Rob Dean