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    The xyston (Ancient Greek: ξυστόν "spear, javelin; pointed or spiked stick, goad), was a type of a long thrusting spear in ancient Greece. It measured...
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  • Iklwa (Zulu) Makrigga (Zande) Tepoztopilli (Aztec) Barcha Kontos Lance Xyston Harpoon One flue harpoon Two flue harpoon Angon Falarica Framea Golo Hak...
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  • Alexander's xyston lance. The xyston was tested against a pig carcass on a zip-line to simulate the weapon's use on horseback. The xyston impaled the...
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    a xyston (Ancient Greek: ξυστόν) is disputed. Nicholas Victor Sekunda argues that the Macedonian cavalry spear was more properly classed as a xyston. The...
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    double-ended spear with a cornel wood shaft called the xyston. The double spear points meant that, should the xyston break during a battle, the rider need only turn...
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    receive the best weaponry available. In Alexander's day, each carried a xyston (long thrusting spear), and wore a bronze muscle cuirass or linothorax,...
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  • when Darth Sidious first reveals the Final Order, a massive armada of Xyston-class Star Destroyers built by the Sith Eternal, to Kylo Ren, when Rey seeks...
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  • Imperial-class Star Destroyer (original trilogy), and the recent Resurgent-class and Xyston-class Star Destroyer (sequel trilogy). Numerous other classes of "Star Destroyers"...
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  • creation of Snoke, as the Sith Lord arranged for the Sith Eternal's fleet of Xyston-class Star Destroyers, the Final Order, that can wipe out planets for the...
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  • a cuirass and boots, but no shield. They were armed with a long spear (xyston) made of cornelian wood, provided with a point at either end, so that it...
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