ThinksMarkedly wrote:That's not how I read it. Any civilian casualty that wasn't an acceptable collateral effect of a military action is too many.
So if you fired a dart gun through the reactor of a strictly civilian habitat and you knew that was going to cause the reactor to go critical and blow, and it does, and a single person dies, it's an EE violation. The point in this case there is that you intentionally set out to kill civilians, targetting an objective that had no military value.
Similarly, if you blow up a military drone with overkill right next to a civilian habitat and civilians die, it's a violation because you did not take sensible precautions against civilian casualties. There may be a mitigating circumstance here that you may claim the enemy was using the civilian habitat as a human shield.
Please recall two incidents that the author has strongly stated were NOT Eridani Edict violations: first the Green Pines explosion was a nuclear bomb set off in a residential area that killed thousands and second was the Yawata Strike where debris from the destruction of an orbital wiped out a city. You gave two examples for what you considered an EEV and here is a counter example for each; the first because the death toll was not high enough (among other reasons) and the second because it was a secondary result of the attack and thus not directly intended.