Mind Worms and attrocities

[WyldCard4]

Why exactly aren't they considered to be attrocities?

When Nerve Gas kills people much faster and less horribly yet is considered worse.

Is there an in game reason or not?

[gwillybj]

Atrocities are war crimes committed using human-made weapons.
Native life-forms bred in captivity are not considered man-made weapons.

[CEO Aaron]

An excellent question. I'm guessing that the answer is in that human controlled mindworms can be prevented from killing civilians, whereas 'atrocity' weapons cannot.

My question would be: Why does razing a base without revoking the U.N. charter first reduce your clean mineral limit? If killing lots of people makes the planet angry, I can get behind it becoming less tolerant of me, but I can't see why the planet would suddenly decide not to care if we all agreed to revoke the U.N. charter.