User blog comment:TheNewProtagonist/Dust is actually kinda dumb./@comment-23784953-20130813151815/@comment-13616152-20130813162336

Actually, Storm Hawks doesn't spend alot of time explaining it's Dust counterpart at all. Not really, despite it's profesionalism.

They're called Crystals, by the way, and unlike with RWBY there were never any questions as to what they actually were or how they worked. From the beginning you're told (well, shown really) that there are many different crystals that do different things and that the only way to use them is in the raw, crystaline form. You could harness it in a weapon like Myrtenaster, sure, but you could never change it's state, then it just stops working.

With Dust it just seems like it doest matter what state or color it's in since it'll always do something. The only limits I see arewhat color Dust you have and when you run out.