Duelling in Spaaaaaaace!

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Polydamas

Duels in Europe were connected to the lack of professional crime investigation or forensic science: if there are very important questions where the only way to decide is to choose who to trust, you let God decide (and people noticed that He made some pretty odd decisions). So to get duelling in an ultratech setting, you probably want to undermine trusted police forces and forensic science and surveillance (this can be within a subculture).

Or a portion of the social order that the law mostly leaves to see to their own affairs. Extrajudicial settlement of disputes among an elite class that is largely above the law.