Nuclear weapons IN SPACE!

[Dangerious P. Cats]

Originally Posted by Apache

Nukes aren't really all that dangerous (to ships) in most space RPG's.......it's what you can do to a planet with one (or several) that makes them really nasty.

That's more my concern. It's hard to justify why the PCs have to fight door to door house to house when they could just nuke the place from orbit. Likewise players have a habbit of asking things like "why havn't they nuked us yet?" when the enemy is attacking them. I'd like to have a good answer.