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** That and they're the perfect Jedi-killing weapon: a blaster bolt can be easily deflected back with a lightsaber, but if a Jedi intercepts a slugthrower round it will only melt it without deflecting or slowing it, resulting in the defending Jedi getting hit with a less letal but much more painful slug. And making him defenseless due the pain, if the bullet didn't kill him outright.
* There's a short story by Arthur C. Clarke called ''Superiority'' about a space empire that keeps inventing one incredible superweapon after another—until they get overrun by their enemies who directed their resources towards making huge numbers of plain, oldfashioned torpedoes while the other side was busy updating their ships.
* In ''[[1632]]'', Janos Drugeth's favorite sword is a fairly mundane thing but well
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