@cstross

Heh! You say that, but …

E.E. Smith, in the #Lensman series, found a way to plausibly force space battles in the future to be fought by barbarians with (space-)axes. Dutch barbarians with heavy-gravity world muscles, no less.

There was even a point where they had to use clubs and lengths of chain against mind-controlled humans, in a universe with personal force screens, impenetrable (space-)armour, blasters, and inertialessness.

If memory serves, it was something to do with the strange physics of 'hyper-spatial tubes' or being rotated out of phase with the universe, or something.

@floatybirb
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