Why the complex rules?
Even though Shattered Spheres is a ‘make pretend’ Role-Playing game, we have a fairly complex set of rules. This is because, as children, when we played Cops and Robbers, there was always the neighborhood punk who refused to lie down and play dead when we pointed fingers at him and said ‘Bang!’. He would shout out ‘Missed me!’ or ‘Bullet Proof Vest!’ or other such ‘rational’ as to why he was not bound by the consensual reality of the game you were playing. The System serves to allow you to interact with the other star nations and players on an even playing field, free from the need to worry if the other player will ‘allow’ you to act in the way your nation will act.
