Bombs are horrible. Let's nerf bombs.

[Cogwerks]

an impassable space void that is too laggy for anyone to ever want to bother patching up

The lag is the real problem here. I know exactly when a bomb* goes off on the station even if I don't see or hear it, because that's when everything grinds to a halt and it suddenly takes several seconds to take a single step.

*)Or an erebite chain reaction in the roid field I guess. Do we still have those?

This is being worked on by several coders. I found a fun thing in explosion code recently... anytime an explosion was going off, even in deep space, it'd force a rebuild of the entire power grid. Whoops.