On the Fragility of Life
GURPS does a fairly good job of showing the fragility of life. A skilled combatant in unarmed combat can leisurely kill a less skilled combatant in a minute just by punching and kicking them to death. While the less skilled combatant might struggle and get in a few good attacks, they are likely not going to survive. With melee weapons and stealth, a more skilled combatant can kill a less skilled combated quite quickly, potentially with one strike from stealth, allowing them to eliminate an enemy within a moment.
Imagine then a 250 CP mundane character with ST 12, DX 14, IQ 12, HT 14, Combat Reflexes, Night Vision 5, Stalker 4, Knife-20, and Stealth-20 (along with other unimportant traits for this exercise). If they came upon an enemy camp with one hundred soldiers in the middle of the night, how many of them could they kill in a night with a very fine long knife? Could they kill them all before they were discovered?
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