Spear

About the Spear

The oldest answer to the oldest question, the spear persists across ten thousand worlds because it simply works. A hardened point on a long shaft gives a fighter reach, a thrust that finds gaps in armor, and a weapon that costs almost nothing to make from whatever a world provides, be it wood, bone, plasteel, or scavenged pipe. Frontier settlers, tribal hunters, and militia levies across the galaxy all fall back on it when blasters are scarce. Balanced for finesse, it rewards timing and distance over brute strength; the trick is never to let an enemy past the point, because the same length that keeps a foe at bay becomes dead weight the instant they close. Light enough to throw in a pinch, cheap enough to abandon, the spear is the weapon of people who cannot afford to lose.