u/SeawolvesTV

Sometimes you get stunned by what the creators of this simulation don't explicitly tell you about. Elite is famous for zero hand holding by the devs, and one of the things they don't bother to tell anyone, is that you can actually decent into the high orbit of stars quite a bit further then most pilots think. Resulting in a spectaculair view of the truly massive electromagnetic plasma arc's that erupt from the surface and tower sometimes hundreds of thousands of miles high (up to 600.000 miles). Hope you enjoy, and make the trip yourself one day also. In VR this is something very very special.

So in the near future, a gun is invented by a crazy gun-scientist. This diabolical expert, made a gun which, right before you pull it's trigger, lasers your target and if you are going to hit a human, this laser reads it's mind perfectly and transmits this entire life-story, straight into the mind of the person pointing the Gun. And so.. right as the shooter decides to pull the trigger, suddenly he knows the entire life story of the person who he's about to shoot.. Every detail of their life.. who they are.. who they love.. how they got to the very moment.. that they walked into your sights..

So suddenly, you know the person you are about to shoot, perfectly. It would be as if you are about to shoot yourself. Or somebody who you know as intimately as you know yourself.

The question is: Would anybody be able to pull that trigger?

If you knew the other person perfectly?

Is this not perhaps.. one of the ultimate science fiction questions to ask?

The ultimate Gun:

The Gun of perfectly understanding another..