U-Bow

Description:


 * This is essentially a tubular metallic weapon with a collapsible cross-brace that functions as a primitive, yet effective, magnetic rail slide.


 * When its cross-brace is extended, it resembles a small crossbow from Old Terra. It is typically flipped open and breech-loaded with a metallic dart, tipped in such a way as to create a supercavitating effect.


 * The simple barrel is unrifled and inaccurate past 20 meters, except when wielded by a skilled Naian. It does have the advantage of being able to shoot in or outside of the water.
 * Longer u-bows have greater range, shorter u-bows are less encumbering underwater.
 * There is even a design known as the 'Mantean Multi-Shot', which is considered by most Naians to be a heavy, stubby weapon with multiple barrels, each capable of firing once. It is brutally effective in the nearly point blank ranges of sunken wrecks, however.
 * Since u-bows are often hand-made, there are many different designs, varying by either individual or sub-clan preference.

Specialties: Long u-bows, short u-bows, custom u-bows, Mantean Multi-Shot, etc.
 * U-Bows can pack a powerful punch. Its hand-made dart ammunition is recovered wherever possible, and often kept in an eel-skin banodlier
 * During the Surfacer Wars, it was revealed to be an effective tool at silencing Surfacer sentries from beneath the water, though an especially keen eye was required to compensate for refraction.