Duelling in Spaaaaaaace!

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Sindri

So duelling is cool and an integral part of SF societies that steal from historical periods. That said how does an ultra-tech setting influence duelling? What kind of plausible variation from historical codes duello can there be? How does duelling work in your settings ultra-tech or otherwise.

One question that springs to mind is what sort of medical (or other) life-preserving technologies are used.

If the point of the duel is the fight, not the risk, you could go with extreme supportive technology (life support nanites, medical sensor linked stasis generators), strict rules against taking it too far, and a portable hospital standing by, or with having all out bouts to the death where both participants are backed up for re-instantiation or the duel is fought by forks (possibly in simulation) while the primaries watch.

On the other hand, if dueling serves as a legally acceptable way to produce a world without the other person in it, participants might be stripped of augmentations and required to purge their backups.