Power Lance

About the Power Lance

A long polearm capped with an energized head, the power lance channels a charged cell into its striking point so that each blow lands with a jolt on top of the impact. Ceremonial guards and shock troopers across a dozen worlds carried weapons in this family, drawn to the reach that keeps an enemy at spear's length and the crackle that turns a bruise into something worse. Two hands drive the shaft, and the length rewards a wielder who fights from a wide, mobile stance, sweeping and thrusting to hold a line rather than dueling in close. Without the finesse of a saber-catching guard staff, it relies instead on momentum and the authority of its charged tip, a soldier's weapon for keeping order and breaking a charge.