u/Bohemond_of_Antioch

Just playing around with combat scenarios for war between Earth and Nexus. Scenario in this case being Earth invades Nexus with absurd amount of cheap infantry droids. Assume Earth opens a sustainable portal in the academy and is able to march in 20,000,000 droids per 24 hours of continuous marching. Assume all relevant supporting forces are there to maintain logistics, including command driods for command, tactical, and super tactical driods for CNC. Assume all technology is a reasonable GUN equivalent, i.e they don't literally have to be made of durasteel and using blasters. Assume they speak the local languages so the Nexians are subjected to the delightful B1 personality.

How far do they get? Do the Crownlands get Roger-Rogered? Will Thamlin earn the c-word pass?

Thanks to sportsmen, bow technology sits in a rather unique position of being both very mature, very innovative, and simultaneously, very dead end. And considering how much mankind loves bows I could easily see the same being true 1000 years in the future. Which means if she makes one, she can use it as a stage for Earthrealm to legitimately flex it's engineering muscles, and as long as the material science is kept secret, e.g how things like carbon fiber is made, it's not giving away any useful information to the Nexus like guns would. A few reasons I think it would be a good idea to make a compound bow, particularly collaborating with Sorecar to make an enchanted one.

1. Bows are similar to the Nexus, so Emma can brag about it more openly than other technologies
2. It would be an opportunity for Emma to gain some experience and data on magi-tech; the mastery of which will be the deciding factor on who out of the Nexus and GUN emerges dominant
3. It would fill the niche for Emma of "weapon she can use publicly to deal with low level threats without causing an existential crisis to onlookers"
4. It would be a proving ground of the concept of improving enchanted weapons not with better magic, but with a better canvas to put enchantments on. A notable paradigm shift, but not overly threatening to the current order considering the improvement compound bows represent over what mana-less bows would be available in the Nexus wouldn't be that large. It would be something that could win Earthrealm prestige and allies.
5. If it goes well enough, compound bows could be sold like the pens

I made a post about AK-47s last week, but that is a bad idea for a number of reasons. But if Emma is going to be selling simple, comparative cheap, and helpful items, then there are likely other items she could get into.

1. Calculators. Similar deal with pens. Solar powered ones don't need much in terms of charging or swapping batteries either.
2. Binoculars. Adventuring parties would do well with them.

If they are willing to deal with batteries, and potentially more risk of attention, they could also do things like:

1. Flash lights
2. Two way radios
3. Electric power tools (chainsaws, law mowers, drills, angle grinder, etc)
4. Stick welders