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4. "RE: Power of UF, revisited"
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   >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.

That would be something to see, Jedi Archers. Though I think Obi-Wan has his thing against just guns. After the end of the fight with Gerivious, he looks at the blaster with an irritated look and tosses it aside with the comment 'So uncivilized'. Though given that blasters are about the only option for ranged combat (do Wookie bowcasters count as blasters?) in the Star Wars universe we may never get a solid answer.

Well, unless it's in some EU book.

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