Yes, it's hard (but not *very* hard) to imagine a (sane) game where the PCs do this. The question is why, in a universe manifestly sprinkled with crazy terrorist organizations and lone gunmen to an extent similar to our own, not to mention occasional wars between high-tech adversaries, this hasn't happened to most hi-pop worlds over the course of millennia.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:04 PM, John Groth <xxxxxx@cox.net> wrote:

Kurt Feltenberger wrote:

On 7/24/2015 11:42 PM, Christopher Hilton wrote:

I don't disagree, I do the same thing. I'm assuming that this thread
is about some peoples need to neuter the tech in Traveller so the
players can't do something really anti-social like run a Type S to
0.2c and then smack it into a world, or, to steal from Niven, start a
fusion drive a tens of meters over an some sophant's inhabited home
and hover for a few minutes. Is that the case?

If it should be possible, then it should be possible. If the PCs want
to waste a world with a Type-S, and there's nothing in the rules that
say it can't be done, then it should be possible. The very calculation
used to determine travel times pretty much codifies that this *can* be
done as there doesn't appear to be an upper limit on potential velocity.

The key question is, why *should* a group of PCs want to destroy a world? Unless you're running a Pocket Empires campaign, there's little incentive for most PC groups to lay waste to worlds.

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