Editing Blade

{{InfoboxWeapon
|name    = Generic Blade
|ammo    = None
|caption = Generic Blade
|cost    = Cr50
|footnote= Generic Blade
|group   = Melee Weapon
|image   = [[File: Imperial Sunburst-Sun-IISS-Traveller.gif]]
|size    = 300.0 mm length
|TL      = 3
|volume  = 300.0 mm length
|weight  = 350.0 grams
|manufacturer= Various
}}
A [[Blade]] (350 grams; Cr50; [[TL-3]]) is a hybrid knife [[Melee Weapon|weapon]]. 
* It is an edged and/or piercing melee weapon. 
* This [[melee weapon]] may be employed as a [[thrown weapon]].
[[File: The-Traveller-Book-pg-38-1982-K-Siembieda 11-June-2018a.jpg|left]]

== Description (Specifications) ==
It has a heavy, flat two-edged blade nearly 300mm in length, and a semi-basket handguard. Because of the bulk of the hand guard, it is generally carried in a belt [[scabbard]]. {{Page cite|name= Characters and Combat|page=37|version=Classic Traveller}}

A blade can be a variety of smaller, edged weapons including the ubiquitous kitchen knife. {{Unpublished cite|author=Maksim-Smelchak}}

=== Weapon Characteristics ===
Length: 300mm. Weight: 350.0 grams. Base Price: Cr50.

== History & Background (Dossier) ==
The earliest knives tend to fashioned from animal horns or bones should a [[world]] possess both a [[sophont]] and sophisticated animal life or equivalent [[creature]]s. Other [[sophont]]s construct knives from volcanic substances including obsidian. During the [[TL:1-3]] epoch, sophonts generally transition from organic materials to various kinds of shaped and smelted metals. {{Unpublished cite|author=Maksim-Smelchak}}

=== Weapon Manufacture ===
The [[TL-3]] blade represented in this [[AAB]] article is a relatively sophisticated knife forged by a blacksmith in a smithy of hard iron and perhaps even sophisticated alloys such as hardened steel. {{Unpublished cite|author=Maksim-Smelchak}}

=== Selected Blade Types ===
# [[TL-3 Blade]]
# [[TL-4 Kitchen Knife]]
# [[Survival Knife|TL-7 Survival Knife]]

== References & contributors (Sources) ==
{{Intermediate}}
{{Sources
 | {{Ludography cite|name=Characters and Combat|page=42-43}}
 | {{Ludography cite|name=The Traveller Book|page=TBD}} (Text & illustrations)
 | [[Imperial Encyclopedia]]
 | {{Ludography cite|name=Core Rule Book | version=Mongoose 2nd|page=117}} 
 | [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
 | Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]] 
}}


[[Category: Edged Weapon]]
[[Category: Melee Weapon]]
[[Category: Thrown Weapon]]
{{LE|Weapon}}