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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 4974170" data-attributes="member: 26473">Except that neither of those examples are particularly logical.Military hardware has a long history of overlooking weaknesses in its design, so the idea that a tiny exhaust port on a station the site of a small moon could prove to be a fatal liability doesn't strain my credulity meter at all.And a live spy in the hand is worth far more than a dead one on the ground; a captured spy can be interrogated, ransomed, or traded, while a dead one just attracts flies. In fact, why on earth all those villains insisted on trying to kill an asset like Bond is the really illogical scenario.You mean like when Cardinal Richelieu has D'Artagnan executed at the end of The Three Musketeers, then sends a troop of cavalry to kill Athos, Porthos, and Aramis as well?Oh, wait, that's not how the story goes!The idea here is that by the time the adventurers come to the attention of the BBEG, they may be a match for the elite minions. (There's also the idea that the adventurers may be worth more to the BBEG alive than dead, but that requires a little effort on the part of the referee to create multi-faceted villains, not just "MWAAHAHAHAHAHA!" guys in spiky armor and black cloaks.)</blockquote>