>>I love that Jeremy Renner keeps playing characters who can pretty much
>>effortlessly be folded together into a single UF character. "Clint
>>Barton" is clearly an alias that former Earthforce explosive ordnance
>>disposal technician William James adopted when he discovered that he
>>was a Treadstone sleeper agent, went rogue, and then found the solace
>>his tortured spirit craved in the esoteric, nearly-lost art of the
>>Ignatine archer-Cleric. :)
>
>I sense a BPGD bio coming. :) Not really necessary, though, is it? I mean, that's pretty much it right there...
>But I don't see any problem with the Ignatine "gun-kata" having
>archery forms.
No indeed. After all, the Order was born out of a war that was fought long before the adventure of rapid-fire firearms. Archery was presumably a part of the mix from the start. As I said, I expect it's a near-dead art by the 25th century, but there's got to be someone keeping the flame alive, however fitfully.
Tangentially, I've often thought it odd that the Jedi don't have some equivalent to an in-house archery style, involving some ranged weapon that's more ancient and harder to use than blasters. It's strongly implied in the films that they sneer at ranged weapons in general - although if you look more closely, it's really only Obi-Wan saying that, so it might just be his personal bias - but they're essentially space samurai, and they were archers. Cavalry archers, in fact, which is pretty badass.
>Or "Clint" ran into Jackie Chan, who invented his archery style on a
>rainy afternoon when he was forced to stop an entire clan of Big Fire
>ninja with nothing more than a bamboo stick, a piece of twine, and
>some wooden dowels. :)
That's more the Ollie Queen approach, I think. Hawkeye's a little more high-tech. :)
Although even if he is a Cleric, I doubt he wears the flappy overcoat, so people probably mistake him for some kind of secular commando most of the time. The coat is very stylish, but it'd be a bit of a liability to an archer, I should think.
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