Thundering Rhino: That is a warning. You are no match for our kung fu.
Shen: I agree... but this is.
"A hollow metal staff? Is that all you see? This weapon is the future. With a single finger, someone who's never trained in the fighting arts can destroy a warrior monk with sixty years of training!"
— Ying, The Five Ancestors
"A few fanatic peasants could easily kill any number of samurai with enough guns!"
— Naga, Shogun
"It is unlike any other of the many types of fire weapons. In strength it can pierce armor. In accuracy it can strike the center of targets, even to the point of hitting the eye of a coin [i.e., shooting right through a coin], and not just for exceptional shooters. ... The arquebus is such a powerful weapon and is so accurate that even bow and arrow cannot match it, and... nothing is so strong as to be able to defend against it."
— Jixiao Xinshu, The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
"In the 1592 invasion, everything was swept away. Within a fortnight or a month the cities and fortresses were lost, and everything in the eight directions had crumbled. Although it was [partly] due to there having been a century of peace and the people not being familiar with warfare that this happened, it was really because the Japanese had the use of muskets that could reach beyond several hundred paces, that always pierced what they struck, that came like the wind and the hail, and with which bows and arrows could not compare."
— Councillor Ryu Seong-ryong
"100,000 BC, stone tools. 4,000 BC, the wheel. 800 BC, sundial. 9th century AD, gunpowder. Bit of a game changer, that one."
— Peter Weyland, a supplementary video
of Prometheus.
of Prometheus.