Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age: Difference between revisions

[[File:your_fathers_lightsaberyour fathers lightsaber.jpg|link=A New Hope|frame|Being [[Rule of Cool|awesome]] is just incidental.]]

* Actually inverted in ''[[The Five Star Stories]]''. Personal combat has come back into fashion once more because people realized what a waste nuking things from orbit was, the goal of most warfare in the series being to conquer territory while doing as little damage to said territory as possible (after all, who wants to rule over a radioactive crater?). The trope is also somewhat deconstructed here, as the dominance of showy, impractical weapons like [[Laser Blade|Laser Blades]]s and [[Bling Bling Bang|ridiculously elaborate]], sword-fighting [[Humongous Mecha]] are seen as a sign that war has become some kind of sick game to the rulers of the galaxy.

* The world of ''[[Exalted]]'' is a [[Magitek]] [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]], with flamethrowers, beam cannons, and [[Wave Motion Gun|Wave Motion Guns]]s all available in somewhere in the setting. However, even at the technological heights of the First Age, the traditional weapon of the titular Exalted is the daiklave, a [[BFS]] that is so massive that it needs to be enchanted [[Required Secondary Powers|just so the wielder can use it without difficulty.]]