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==Military==

While little has been seen that would indicate any governmental or military organization in Nausicaan society, the 22nd century saw coordinated acts of piracy. Hunting parties of several warp-capable raider starships armed with plasma cannons and protected by deflector shields, worked out of asteroid bases. The pirate crews were armed with hand-held directed energy weapons.

Over the next two centuries, however this seems to have changed. Now most contact with Nausicaans is in the form of isolated run-ins with single ships or in rare cases with two or three ships belonging to the same small isolated group of independent operators. Surprisingly the practice of using asteroids as settlements and bases for small bands of pirates, criminals or mercenaries did not go out of practice.

The Nausicaan sword is a blade-weapon used primarily by Nausicaans. In fact it is very unusual to find one not carrying a sword. This weapon is approximately two to two and a half feet in length with the one edge being razor sharp and the other edge having three ridges used to block and stop the movement of an attacking sword. The hand grip is fashioned of a material that makes it easier to maintain a solid grip especially during combat.

===Raider class vessel (22nd Century)===