cthia wrote:That is a disaster brewing in the pot. The MAlign could have attacked and wiped out ALL industry along with up to a third of the population in one fell swoop! I'm not even sure it could have been characterised as an EE violation.
ThinksMarkedly wrote:It's as much a violation as a planetary target.
The mistake is to put all of it in a single station. That's a Single Point of Failure. Instead, if you have a lot of dispersed nodes, hundreds or thousands of them in orbit, the damage is minimised.
I am not sure what you are saying would be an EE violation. Destroying orbitals is not an EE violation; although civilzed nations usually give warning, so that they can be evacuated. The prime example is that Oyster Bay did not constitute such a violation, nor did what Honor do in the Sol System.
The only exception might be orbitals purely used for habitation; but once you add major manufacturing, then the station can be targeted.