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<blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 8745513" data-attributes="member: 6670763"><p>A general state of lawlessness. When you have cargo and passenger ships travel for weeks or months, and in some cases years, away from any kind of police force, with no way to call anyone for help and the next safe place being days away at best, and it is technically quite doable for pirates to intercept ships with weapons they bought on some backwater planet that has fallen into anarchy, I would imagine it being quite hard to do any interatellar transportation without the ability to arm ships.</p><p>Why is the front passenger seat called shotgun? Because the guy in that seat on a stage coach is the one holding the shotgun while the driver controls the horses.</p><p></p><p>Current containerships are typically not armed because pirate ships can be tracked everywhere in the world from space, and there's police on almost all coasts to catch pirates when they come to shore. It took a complete breakdown into anarchy in Somalia for people to seriously consider piracy again, and once that became a nuisance the fleets that patrol the seas took an end to that in a few years. It certainly is possible to make space settings like that. I would guess the Federation is Star Trek is such a case, and I can't really see Federation freighters being armed. But that's a different genre than the Space Scoundrels on swashbuckling adventures.</p><p></p><p>Weapons on merchant ships really only went away in the 19th centuries when national navies gained the technical capabilities and necessary capacity to enforce the law in their waters and on shipping lanes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yora, post: 8745513, member: 6670763"] A general state of lawlessness. When you have cargo and passenger ships travel for weeks or months, and in some cases years, away from any kind of police force, with no way to call anyone for help and the next safe place being days away at best, and it is technically quite doable for pirates to intercept ships with weapons they bought on some backwater planet that has fallen into anarchy, I would imagine it being quite hard to do any interatellar transportation without the ability to arm ships. Why is the front passenger seat called shotgun? Because the guy in that seat on a stage coach is the one holding the shotgun while the driver controls the horses. Current containerships are typically not armed because pirate ships can be tracked everywhere in the world from space, and there's police on almost all coasts to catch pirates when they come to shore. It took a complete breakdown into anarchy in Somalia for people to seriously consider piracy again, and once that became a nuisance the fleets that patrol the seas took an end to that in a few years. It certainly is possible to make space settings like that. I would guess the Federation is Star Trek is such a case, and I can't really see Federation freighters being armed. But that's a different genre than the Space Scoundrels on swashbuckling adventures. Weapons on merchant ships really only went away in the 19th centuries when national navies gained the technical capabilities and necessary capacity to enforce the law in their waters and on shipping lanes. [/QUOTE]
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