Guards stood everywhere, more for show than function, dressed in regalia and armed with archaic weapons.

As for those archaic weapons, G'joth wasn't too concerned about them.

She expected any second to be brought down by a projectile fired from one of those archaic weapons.

There was something about their stance which told her they knew how to use these archaic weapons, that they were not ceremonial at all.

It was an archaic weapon, but precise.

Yet we are taught combat and, to honor us, we are awarded archaic weapons.

And those in the ship - they might well look contemptuously on such archaic weapons as useless.

To modern humans this archaic ritual fought with archaic weapons must seem strange, especially in a spacefaring race.

Nuclear weapons, archaic and potent, were secured in their holds.

Farther out, she glimpsed squads of men running back and forth, some piling up debris to form barricades, others raising archaic weapons.