23. "RE: (STO) peeking back in"
In response to message #22
>I was just thinking. How often do you need to disintegrate the >enemy? Shouldn't it usually be good enough to make them dead?
Well, it does save trouble with the messy cleanup of the battlefield later. Even if it does get you on the bad side of relatives, SOCOs, and medical examiners.
Ebony the Black Dragon
It also makes corpus delicti a bit tricky in murder trials.
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