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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5539092" data-attributes="member: 40176">Even though it should be survivable, I'd bet that sort of vacuum exposure must leave distinctive scars or physiological effects, especially after multiple incidents - scars around clothing seams and cuffs from where the exposed skin swells and bruises, bloodshot eyes from the repeated pressure strains, a distinctive rasp to the voice or breathing from where delicate blood vessels burst as the lungs were evacuated.A spacer who'd received such treatment repeatedly would probably be recognisable at a glance, marking him out as a pirate or former pirate to regular spacers, and as a sloppy or wastrel crewman amongst pirate crews, to have earned so many punishments. It might be worth highlighting such folk in the game, maybe even adding some slang to identify them - something like &quot;vac-breathers&quot; or &quot;vac-heads&quot; - which eventually becomes a disparaging term referring to pirates in general, but especially to sub-standard pirates.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 5539092, member: 40176"] Even though it should be survivable, I'd bet that sort of vacuum exposure must leave distinctive scars or physiological effects, especially after multiple incidents - scars around clothing seams and cuffs from where the exposed skin swells and bruises, bloodshot eyes from the repeated pressure strains, a distinctive rasp to the voice or breathing from where delicate blood vessels burst as the lungs were evacuated. A spacer who'd received such treatment repeatedly would probably be recognisable at a glance, marking him out as a pirate or former pirate to regular spacers, and as a sloppy or wastrel crewman amongst pirate crews, to have earned so many punishments. It might be worth highlighting such folk in the game, maybe even adding some slang to identify them - something like "vac-breathers" or "vac-heads" - which eventually becomes a disparaging term referring to pirates in general, but especially to sub-standard pirates. [/QUOTE]

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