Coolant [Spaceships]

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Polkageist

Kind of like other exhibitions of wanton villainy, a player that posits using a fast-moving spaceship to smash a (typical inhabited) planet would probably call for a pause of the game and a sidebar about what's going on man. Especially if that's the response to some non-existential problem. It's a hell of an escalation! It's like getting some McDonald's, the fry order is wrong, and concluding that the appropriate response is to set fire to the restaurant.

And the odd person does consider that a useful response and burn down the restaurant, shoot it up, etc. It's a feature of the 'real world' setting that we live in. Likewise, if space-drives allow people to recreate the twin towers attack on a grander scale, people in that setting would be aware of it, and might well take precautions against it, especially if it had happened in the past. In a setting where groups of people like your typical PC party can get hold of a ship fairly easily, you can bet it's happened before, and that stopping it is a major consideration for traffic control and defence organisations.