More Terrorism...

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@Lorry: The thing about real-world terrorists organisations is, they specifically goes after civilian targets. Becuase they doesn't have the resources or the guts to take on military forces... if they did they would die horribly. Their aim is to accomplish w/e by _terrorising_ the civilian populace into submission, or risk being blown up anytime.

(Note the distinction between _terrosists_ and _insurgents/guerillas_).

This ties in with your other point about terrorism being an assymetric conflict.

So actions of self-styled terrorists going after civvy transports (in Disco) are valid in that respect. However as you said terrorist orgs should not be doing it with fleet of military bombers and remain in the bounds of credulity. Maybe one bomber, stolen or w/e. And certainly not a BS, cruiser or any capship.

My other point is no terrorist is an island -- they always receive financial support, either overtly or covertly, from sympathetic parties. In Disco's case this translates to being "friendly" with someone besides yourself, docking at their base, w/e. So technically they wouldn't need to trade or pirate, but Freelancer is not the "perfect world".

o.