User blog comment:LilyheartsLightning/Citadel and Reckoning DLC announced/@comment-24174486-20130225174706/@comment-4953843-20130225191732

two words: kinetic barriers.

more words: not to mention you can NEVER discount the feel of visceral, primitive combat no matter how far your weapon range is, how impenetrable your shield is, or how gunsvsswords fly in the face of logical tactics. let blood knights be blood knights, let campers be campers.

since we never really encountered aliens IRL we've always assumed they share some of humanity's mindsets regarding war and caricatured them into easily recognizable forms. taste for melee regardless of era for one.

PS don't read this because it's totally irrelevant. right. Codex/Weapons,_Armor_and_Equipment

PPS wookiee crossbows.