So how do these groups settle their differences? Car-jousting? Fast-paced games of chess? Well, first of all, to gain satisfaction and restore/defend one's honor one needs to be willing to risk something, something serious, like bodily harm, or even death. Some form of violence seems to be the only real way to go.
Drawing on the rich history of dueling with rapiers, full of finesse and finely tuned badassery, I figured there had to be some way to compress the otherwise bulky sword into a more compact and elegant object. A rolled-up sheet of memory material would be able to elongate at will into a thin needle, and its internal circuitry would be able to form super-heated plasma to provide an edge to the coiled cone. Bulletproof body armor wont help you here - lose this duel and, if you're lucky, you'll be left with your life, and some cauterized scars.
Quick visualization sketch of the early rapier concept in action.
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