Most Traveller-relevant quote: "Real-life space combat will involve a lot more asking your computer to shoot at another computer several million miles away and waiting to be told what happened. The beep on your coffee maker has a similar level of dramatic tension. You'd just sit there, existing, until you didn't, at which point you were dead and you lost."

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