![]() This is especially important if you are inside a sealed tin can surrounded by hard vacuum. If you miss, you can injure the innocent bystander a long way off rather than the innocent bystander that's right up close. Projectile weapons and energy weapons have something in common. Your reasoning for having Swords alongside Lasers can have it's roots in 2 different things. So to make a ranged weapon disadvantegous, prevent that the wielder has room and open sight. Also ranged weapons are also mostly worthless in melee (with the exception of rifles which can be used as bat and are really, really dangerous with bajonets). If futuristic ranged weapons are not build inside the clothes or transplated into the body, once a victim is close they can be avoided by getting close and wrestling so that the victim cannot point and trigger their ranged weapon. So (improvised) melee weapons are great for assassinations or infiltrations to avoid raising alarm. garrotting someone does not leave any trace and allows silently disposing/hiding the body. Killing someone with a ranged weapon also leaves traces (bullet, type of weapon, where did the shooter stand, blood or skin marks) while e.g. Every pointed object (pencil, pen, screwdriver) can be used as dagger. Every heavy piece of material (boule ball, even a bar of soap) can be turned with a towel or a sock into a powerful mace. Melee weapons on the other hand can be improvised from the most harmless things. Gun powder, batteries, springs, whatever, the energy source can be detected and you can effectively detect and restrict them. Whatever your ranged weapon is, it needs energy to do the job and it needs a frame for the projectile. Once being exposed, they can be attacked. So they won't have their nanotube armored clothes on all time. I suppose even futuristic humans will still want to breathe fresh air, take a hot bath, have sex with other people. You need some reason - physics, interfering technology, magic, or social convention - to suppress their use. There is a teensy realism gap, but it allows knights and cowboys to fight Roman-style legions, and this excuses many sins. A mystical event has occurred such that high voltage electricity and high-speed combustion don't work. So it's swords, swords, swords all the way down. Shields make both pistols and lasers impractical - shields block anything moving too fast, so bullets bounce off, and laser/shield interactions resemble nuclear blasts. Anyhoo, guys run around with lasers and cutlasses think pirate stories, where your pistol is good for one shot then it's down to cold steel. I can't recall the reason that gunpowder weapons are out of style, but there is one. They have laser pistols which are devastating, but for take some time to recharge. The Deathstalker series, by I think Simon Green. Each of them is careful to specify a specific reason that guns aren't the order of the day. There are several authors who agree with your notion. The question in factor was to ask if melee weapons, wielded by magic users, could have any sort of use against non-magic users wielding long-ranged firearms. Lasers or Plasma beams, and most weapons are based on ballistic or magnetic propellants. But what about a more non standard setting? Could a high-elf carrying a magical claymore have any chance against a human carrying a highly powered mag-prop gun? Or would everyone eventually decide that high-technology is a much better choice?įurther clarification, since my question was flagged as a duplicate: it is not a purely sci-fi setting, its a sci-fi fantasy, meaning that this particular universe isn't purely centered around highly powerful technologies, but highly powerful technologies with magical properties added, in this particular scenario we are also discarding any sort of energy pulse weapons i.e. To clarify further, we are ignoring the standard bullet-beats-knife scenario, we are talking about sci-fi-fantasy, in a universe where both highly advanced technology exists both in coexistence and in standalone form from any sort of magic or special non-standard-universal-rules powers, in particular we are talking if there would be any sort of usage and if it would be of any use, in normal sci-fi scenarios we can almost instantly remove the regular usage for any melee weapons (excluding the odd light saber) because typically sidearms such as high powered pistols would have taken the role of these weapons. What would be the feasibility of short ranged weapons, such as swords, brass knuckles, clubs and gauntlets in a sci-fi-fantasy setting?
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