How to go about making an Ultra Tech Bow

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Mailanka

Any thoughts on the sort of scale or a source of inspiration on how to handle that beyond "Whatever I feel like?"

In the end, it's a matter of what technobabble you want. As long as bows are limited to putting out the energy that's put into the bow when you draw it, you're not going to get anything too impressive -- a bow with a draw strength of 100 lb and a draw length of 3' is capped at 300 ft-lb, which is on the low end of pistol energies; your basic assault rifle puts out 1200 or so. Come up with a bow that puts out more energy than you put into it, and all bets are off.