"I played with them in some of the sillier games. It was a nice break from training with more modern weapons."

"'More modern weapons'. Right. anyway," whumm, "Here's the bow, and here's a few arrows."

Alice adopts a flawless stance and fires an arrow at a nearby tree. It hits, barely. "Hmm, the drop is a bit different than I expected and the aim is a little different." She fires again, this time she hits dead center. "That's better."

"Nice shots. All the magic arrows except bomb ones do a pretty good job of being balanced the same as my normal arrows, by the way."

"That's good, are the bomb ones just heavier or is there another difference?"

"They're heavier at the tip, makes them dip a lot."

"I wonder if they could be changed to use metal shafts to compensate. Heavier arrows aren't too much harder to fire though I suppose they'd move slower if you're using the same bow. I guess there isn't an easy answer."

"I hate metal shafted arrows. They always seem to go off center. The royal guard gave up on them."

"Right, I guess they wouldn't be flexible enough to behave properly for most alloys. I haven't ever made arrows or bows so I don't know the material science involved."

"The Royal Guard paid for all sorts of weapon experiments. We had these things called 'cannon' but they're too big and heavy, not good for what we usually fight, which is monsters and bandits."

"Cannons are the first step towards a whole class of kinetic weapons which can be useful, especially when miniaturized. Zabna doesn't really like kinetics for long range exploration just because of the ammunition requirements. I mostly see his point so we're pretty energy weapon heavy. The secondary teams will have a better mix whenever they show up, they're allowed to bring manufacturing equipment with them."

"Again, not sure I want to invite more strange new things to mess around in Hyrule. But what do I know, eh? We didn't actually get to see a guardian beam, but I bet you'll call it an 'energy' weapon."

She shrugs, "There's some grey area. As for the secondary teams, in absence of a centralized government asking them to stay away they're probably going to come at some point. Zahn and I can delay their arrival to some degree but there's limits to how patient our superiors will be without a concrete reason why this world and its people should be written off."

"Hmm... How about you get each town's permission before letting second teams go to that region?"

"That's plausible. Secondary teams do a lot of their work in orbit and beyond anyway. Surveying your star system is important to knowing what we can offer you and what natural resources you have available should you expand."

"...Uh. I think there's been an insufficient context event."

"Right, with the Great Beasts running around I sorta forgot that you're a fairly low tech people. Are you aware that the planet is a sphere that's rotating on its axis and revolving around the sun at a slower rate?"

"It's 'Divine Beasts'. And, I knew the world is a sphere, that's an important navigational principle. There was a lot of disagreement on what the sun and moon and the stars and other things in the sky are, though. And I don't know if anybody is studying it now."

"Most of the bright lights in the sky are what we call stars. They're giant balls of plasma and gas many times larger than your world, that class includes the sun. The rest of the bright lights in the sky are a mix of other things, planets, the moons of those planets, asteroids, and other miscellany."

"Sun's bigger than the moon? Makes sense, it's brighter."

"The moon doesn't actually emit light, it just reflects the sun, and not very efficiently. The moon is smaller than your planet, that's part of how we define the term moon."

"I'll have to get a proper lesson on all this once I've sealed Ganon."

"I'm an ok tutor, everyone is taught to be at least that in our schools but there's other people who are better at teaching."

"Maybe one of those second contact teams. I'm sure the princess would absorb any lessons like a sponge. She loves that stuff."

Alice smiles. "I hope I get a chance to meet her. Or did she die? I guess I still might meet her then if the resurrection project ever succeeds."