Personally, IMTU (vary, vary different then anyone else's, no personal laser weapons, no gauss weapons, no plasma or fusion guns), the Imperial Navy actually has a standard issue service revolver.
Essentially, since the ruleset I use has any automatic or semiautomatic firearm jamming about 10 percent of the time in a vacuum, (which is what all boarding actions take place in IMTU), a revolver makes a lot of sense in the backup-weapon-that-won't-jam role.
It's based off the .455 Webley IV (same caliber, top break open), double action, issued both with speedloaders and loose rounds (to speed up reloading), and has the power of a .357 magnum. With the armor piercing hardcore rounds, anyway. It also takes the same rounds as the Navy's standard issue SMG, 9mm muzzle energy but with a HEAP shaped charge warhead. Those pack a punch, they'll go through your armor and they can kill you.
After my character ran out of rounds in the gun with one more enemy standing, though, if he ever gets enough money, he's getting one made with a few extra chambers.
Swords are pretty much for show, although they are real, and you can put it through body armor with enough effort behind it.
). Most semi-auto pistols designed in the last 30 years or so are more accurate than the stock Browning designs of the past. Likewise, what you say in regards to revolver ergonomics (don't forget the light trigger-pull of a cocked revolver either) is very true. However, no matter how tight you make the tolerances of a locked breech the barrel & slide have to move and this changes their postion relative to one another and the sights, even if only by thousandths, with each shot. Fixed barrel revolvers and semi-autos (like target .22's) don't encounter this problem although revolvers use different chambers for each shot and this induces variability into that system. Real accuracy nuts often test and mark the individual chambers in order to only use those that shoot closest to the sight (granted this is only practical in a hunting or bullseye situation).
