GUNIN, he already said he wanted no structural damage.
Frag grenades tend to do that. Frag grenade thrown into a room with Computers that have sensitive data? Congratulations, that data was just destroyed.
I don't see where he said that. He seems interested in "
burning the oxygen in a room rather than those inside" (by "those" I assume he means people) and "
igniting surroundings". He's got three posts in this thread and it didn't take long for me to closely read them. Doesn't seem he's concerned at all with the state of the room afterward, since there are better ways to leave a room intact than by setting it on fire.
An SSD, as long as it's inside a tower, has a pretty good chance of surviving a fragmentation grenade, but that's a risk you might not take in some cases.
Agreed. A nerve gas that paralyzes the lungs is far easier to manufacture and administer than a non-explosive non-thermogenic deoxygenating agent. Why go to all the trouble of sucking the oxygen out of the room when you can just stop the enemy's lungs from working instead?
An explosive would probably incapacitate everyone instantly with only seconds to react. AFAIK people who've been hit with nerve gas are still conscious for up to ten minutes but I won't assume they'd be in any shape to perform any last minute acts of spite, like firing a gun or triggering an explosive. It seems someone would still have time to do things while they're suffocating. Not to mention you have to worry about yourself being contaminated by the nerve agent after you've put it into the environment. That could be a hassle to keep your own side from taking casualties from the gas, plus you have to decontaminate yourselves and any sensitive items afterward.