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The Falx is a hand weapon which was favored by the Echvehnurth. This weapon was described as being a some sort of polearm of two and a half meters long, a hybrid spear and a straightened out scythe. With half of its length straight handgrip and the other half a long blade with a slight bias hook, the inside curve of which was razor sharp and it could go through almost any metal. The only way to break those blade was to use lignite - a mixture of liquid nitrogen which when it was sprayed on the falx blades made them brittle to the point they could be shattered under a foot.[1a]

The use of falx by Echvehnurth in combat involved a technique of spinning and sweeping like a flail which resulted in lopping off limps, heads and even bisecting the whole torsos.[1a] When the members of the company Dancers of the Geno Five-Two Chiliad were attacked during the siege of the capital Tel Utan on the planet Nurth, members of the Alpha Legion in plain clothing and armed only with falx counterattacked and drove the Echvehnurth away.[1b]

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