Re: [FT][FH]Sumani Incident (or: Battle of the Johns)

>Laserlight wrote:
>>
>> Leary:
>> >> > 7) 2173 - SUMANI IV incident - NAC and ESU reps killed by IF
>> >> > 	  suggest a system in/near the IF area

Leary said:
>     In a last effort to clarify the position with reguard to
>the Sumani IV incident I offer this quote from FT:
>"2173 The Sumani IV incident.	 ESU and NAC peace negoiators
>assassinated by an Islamic Federation terrorist attack.  ..."
>I trust that clarifies my position.

Yes, but...
a) players have knowledge that people in the milieu don't have--remember
my
point about the SaVasku?
b) terrorists don't have to be in their home territory.
c) who would go to New Arabia for a conference?  No alcohol, all women
swathed in 32 yards of fabric, a politically hostile environment.

Why not head for  Nouvelle Suisse, or some other pleasant neutral place?
 In
fact, they chose the fleshpots of Sumani IV.  I'm not an
astrocartographer
[the crowd sighes in relief] but why not put it in the Inner Systems?
Conveniently close by, the UN can make sure no one is shooting as they
go
in, and it's had enough time as a settlement to get some decent
landscape
and weather.