"Light sabres," Esponer snorted. "A waste of time, and pretty much impossible, really. Did someone forget that light doesn't stop after four feet? And for that thing to be useful as anything more than a torch, it'd need a power source much, much larger than that the size of a hilt. I'd be slightly more impressed if it was an actual blade emitting gamma radiation - that's slightly less absolutely nonsense, if only slightly."
"As it is..." he muttered, drawing his smallsword, "...I'm happy with what I have. It may not glow in the dark or slice through tritanium - which is League armour, by the way, Ne Demord Jamais - but as far as standard nanoblades go, it's fairly nice. My byknifes are just standard ones, of course, as they're more for a joke than anything else."
"If things get serious, my palm-sized anti-matter mine should come in handy for blowing up this bar and everything within a radius of ten kilometres. At least. I used to like my anti-matter torp-crossbow, like the one Borb II there has, but the slight problem that you could blow up a planet with one shot does sort of inhibit casual use. I usually use a basic pistol these days, with smart-bullets. I'll leave the single molecule of anti-matter in every bullet to RMA. Dead people are dead. Having the building blow up around them is only a bonus."
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-Lyat Esponer Corsair