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Poisoned Weapons: See Combat Pragmatist – the eldrae would, once again, like to point out that being honorable should not correlate strongly with being an idiot. Nor should being an idealist mean that you are obliged to give up all the efficacious advantages. As the book says: if you have to
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Point Defenseless: Utterly averted. The automated point-defense systems – usually plasma lasers or other Energy Weapons, for their speed and reaction time, gridded across the hull – will rip to pieces just about anything that gets within their range in an colorful orgy of photonic destruction, unless it’s extremely fast, capable
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So, while it now seems to have disappeared from the Internet, my article on Non-Standard Starship Scuffles appears to have come in for some little criticism: First, for having FTL in it; and Second, for assuming that space battles will take place in open space, the commenter apparently not seeing