> Members of a highly traditional alien race go into battle wielding literally several hundred year old ancestral weapons
How would you make this work? So far I have a couple of ideas
> Technology allows for a weapon to be infinitely cloned as long as the origional remains intact > the same brittle, but sharp, sword can be broken and reformed hundreds of times, entire volleys of the same spear can be launched at the enemy
> Ork-like psychic field makes these weapons extremely lethal because of what they represent to the aliens
> pic related
Luis Carter
>highly traditional
That's probably all the justification you need. Japan didn't have any of that technology and they still did it, granted they later had to shit out crappy tinfoil swords for their officers to wear.
Kayden Butler
Look at Dune. There's a good justification.
Jayden Diaz
If it's carrying it with them, as long as it's not cumbersome, it was common for a very long tine for officers in modern armies well into the time of automatic weapons to get swords.
If you mean use in battle, they would need to either have armor that defeats current ranged weapons, or not go to war. In a realistic sense, anyway, if it's ca-razy, then just any kind of supertech will do.
Anthony Fisher
I'd have it just be something much like Sam's sword, where upgrading and enhancing the weapon to meet new technological standards isn't considered damaging to its value as the weapon of one's ancestors. You know, "sometimes my spear's head needs replacing, sometimes its shaft needs replacing, but it is still the same spear". The attitude would be one of each new generation leaving their mark on the legacy, rather than it being a static thing that modern wielders can only touch and not affect.
Wyatt Rodriguez
> ancient warship gets continually upgraded and enlarged until its a seven kilometer long space vessel that fires nukes That's a pretty fucking dope piece of lore right there
Kayden Watson
Mad Jack Churchill went to war with outdated weapons.
Still had a good k/d.
Matthew Jones
>Members of a highly traditional alien race go into battle wielding literally several hundred year old ancestral weapons
Ayden Barnes
Are energy swords really that old? It seems like they would be making new ones.
Camden Peterson
You could also justify it using peak technology. Sometime, you really can't improve something beyond a paradigm shift.
