Severing

Severing in the Basic set requires Cutting or Explosive (crushing) damage.
Fantasy had a technique for ripping off arms.
High Tech 162 Optional Wounding Rules under "Limb Hits" expanded the rules a bit:
*Optionally, a body part is automatically permanently crippled (p. B422) if it suffers at least twice the injury needed to cripple it – 
**but impaling, piercing, and tight-beam burning attacks must inflict twice that amount to sever the
body part.
This still doesn't cover doing it with CRUSHING/WIDE BURNING/CORROSIVE attacks though, and creates the strange concept that you can sever a limb using a high heeled shoe or a finger-poke, but not a Wrench Limb or similar.
A neat house rule might be to allow the non-mentioned types to do it when there's TRIPLE the amount needed to sever with a cutting/explosive. This puts it below the impaling/piercing/TightbeamBurning but still feasible. Or maybe douple again (4x the amount)
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