Baalbamoth wrote:

In my next campaign though, I dont plan on doing either. I'll settle on mars or some other large pop planet and do the entire campaign there. You loose something in not letting the players settle down and plant roots.

Our game master runs on Mars. One advantage to Mars is that it is one of the few habitats where personal defense weapons (agonizers, laser pulsers, pistols with rubber bullets, etc) are allowed with permits because a habitat breech is not an immediate death sentence. So, it allows for your agents to be minimally armed at all times. The levels of weapons that fall under 'personal defense' vary from city to city (Olympus is more lax than Elysium, for example), but for the most part, some kind of sidearm is generally legal somewhere on Mars. Honestly, in most habitats, your best combat skills are unarmed and clubs, because you can usually make clubs anywhere and you always have 2 hand (or more, depending on morph).

Where is it listing small arms as a threat to habitat safety? It lists that even on anarchist habs WMDs such as nukes and antimatter are banned because they represent a threat to the hab as a whole (subjecting that smaller weapons don’t). And in much of the inner system personal weapons are heavily restricted because they don’t want people using them on other people, the descriptions I recall of extropia seemed to sujest the security contractors all carried and used guns. Also when you look at habitat armour and damage ratings small arms cant breach them anyway.

Well Elysium is planetary consortium they have a lot of written down weapons restrictions. Show up to a cafe on extropia or locus with a grenade launcher over your shoulder and you probably get denied service “for the comfort of other patrons” and/or some negative pings on your rep.