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Originally Posted by Anthony
You know, if the point is ultra-tech stabbery, you can easily have the shield-penetrating effect be a feature of the sword rather than the shield; i.e. the sword has something built in to the blade that lets it pass through shields. This does mean you can build shield-penetrating guns by putting the same generator in a bullet, but depending on the size and cost of the shield penetrating device, doing so may not be cost effective.
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Yep. Magic shields and anti-magic swords frankly sound more plausible than trying to get any sort of conventional tech path to yield a TL11 where melee combat is routinely used in front-line warfare.