Roll the phrase around your tongue with me: Starmetal sword. Starmetal sword. The lost secret to Damascus steel could totally have been meteorites! Attila the Hun had a sword like this, right? Or Excalibur was one, yeah? Tutankhamun was definitely buried with one. Blue Eye Samurai’s heroine has a starmetal sword, and so does Sokka in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the Redwall series practically revolves around whoever’s got the meteorite-forged sword of Martin the Warrior in their paws.

Celebrate Cool Sword Day the Polygon way

Man, starmetal swords are cool. Until you actually look them up in real life.

Would it surprise you to know that there’s no material advantage you can forge into a sword using metal from a meteorite? Eh, probably not, you’re smart and skeptical, so you know that while the iron-nickel alloys in........

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