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*** Which could have been the point. {{spoiler|A faction of the Culture}} might not want {{spoiler|another genocide}} but still want to make a threatening point about what The Culture had done.
**** Seems far too costly. The message would have still been heard with a hundred times less civilian casualties.
***** Remember that not only did the attack have no chance of succeeding vs. an alerted target, but the casualty count would have come from the ''unplanned'' disruption of services from Masaq' Hub... but Masaq had already shifted all Orbital housekeeping to automated systems in preparation for its own suicide. So there's no civilian casualties to worry about.
How come The Culture spends so much time informing the reader how "capital punishment is bad, mkay?" -- but are perfectly willing to send a nanotech assassin to gorily murder people who piss them off?
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