Mike replied to Johannes: > Shot gun or light 50 cal or like, less lead down range but one shot one kill > does help. > Unless your hoping to not destroy your facility with alot of lead sprayed > around?
The bad guys -- I'm using "Archvillains" and "Evil Overlords" pretty interchangeably -- probably have centuries of experience at keeping low-tech peasants in check. Three important factors are: * They don't value their subjects as individuals. There is always another farmer/miner/porter where the last one came from. Since they are villains, they'll probably make plenty of bloody examples to make their point. * They value their subjects as a group. They need farmers etc. to feed their palaces. Nobody with high-tech training will be wasted in a kitchen. * The subjects might kill some villains in a slave rebellion, but they won't win on the long run. They don't control interstellar travel and communications. So they might shoot the people at the front of a mob, but not the entire mob and not the village watermill and smithy, either. When those tactics and technologies meet TL8 Terrans, things get interesting. > One thing terrorist groups love is to cause a situation where the > law/military that responds does something that ends with a civilian killed, > especially children, namely to over react. When the Terrans attack the lair of an Evil Overlord, what happens to the domestic staff? > Also they like it when you the > law, arrest someone that does not have a weapon but ... The Terrans will probably see themselves at war, with collateral damage (think drones in the real world), while the Evil Overlord will not extend the rule of law to his subjects. Perhaps there are laws between the various Overlords, but they won't protect simple peasants. > Sorry I digress, if I was the one killing bugs, I would love the be able to > do it with the mininal risk to my ass as possible. The Evil Overlords don't want to KILL anybody for the sake of killing, except for individual monsters. They want to RULE in luxury, and they're prepared to kill to make that happen. The police and security apparatus supports that system. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
