https://www.isegoria.net/2015/01/energy-sidearms/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2015/01/energy-sidearms/comment-page-1/#comment-2058324 Isegoria Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:08:41 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37128#comment-2058324 The German dueling tradition makes a certain odd kind of sense.

]]> https://www.isegoria.net/2015/01/energy-sidearms/comment-page-1/#comment-2058111 27 Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:47:09 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37128#comment-2058111 Regarding the laser-blindness, in Piers Anthony’s Bio of a Space Tyrant, laser side-arms are used by space-pirates as a kind of duelling weapon explicitly intended to pierce an opponent’s eyeball, being largely ineffective otherwise. A hard shot to make! The victim would also very likely survive, a bit like those hardy Prussian types who carried scars on their mugs with great pride.

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