Keep it messy but yes, singular and not group, the old comments about what
people did not do things for the last couple genocides was
they came for them, but I am not them, then another group and finally they
are all that is left and they have no one to help them, and off to the
slaughter/slavery they go..
One dead, not the group, the group gets like a group and not 10 singular
people basically.
He Sinned, that is why he is not you and he/she must be punished, but your
good people and ... don't want to die..
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Onno Meyer" <[email protected]>
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Star Gate like Background
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
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