Outback Sabre

The Outback Sabre is the traditional sidearm of the Nomads who traverse the arid heartlands of Oceanyka’s Outback, a weapon born from necessity and refined through two millennia of warfare, raiding, and survival. Originally the domain of Aboriginal nomads, its use later spread among exiles, mercenaries, and settlers who adopted their way of life. The sabre’s light, curved blade excels at cutting arcs from horseback or klongenback mounts, its motion relying on speed rather than brute strength. Its design sacrifices penetration for fluidity, being devastating against unarmoured foes, but nearly useless against even hardened leather, not to mention chainmail or plate.

This weapon is as much a cultural symbol as an instrument of battle. To carry one marks a person as self-reliant, unbound by the rigid hierarchies of the coastal State. Among the nomads, sabres are heirlooms: blades are reforged, hilts replaced, and edges sharpened over generations, yet the weapon retains the spirit of its lineage. Some are engraved with clan runes or wrapped in ochre-stained leather, representing the bond between the rider, their mount, and the endless desert.

Even in the mid-1960s, scouts, adventurers, bounty hunters, and freedom fighters in Oceanyka’s hinterlands still carry the sabre, its elegant lethality proving timeless in close combat.