Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25479664-20160418125948/@comment-25479664-20160418212521

Sentry 616 wrote: I thought we were assuming that they didn't have normal gunpowder at all, but rather all their firearms use dust as at least a propellant. That said they do need an advanced understanding of chemistry for their modern materials. The better the metal, the better the weapon.

If we're bringing up what the energy business needs to develop, how about nuclear power? It has its flaws, but people have made improvements. We in the US already rely on nuclear power more thany one else, and those old reactors (all of them) need to be replaced. Yeah but as someone back there (I think it was Grey), Remnant hasn't even made basic chemical fuels yet, much less nuclear power (If Atlas had nukes, then I think that 70% of the grimm would be gone by now). But as Grey just said, electricity isn't the problem. The main problem is creating an effective propellant. Here, I've been waiting to break out this arguement for a while now, so here goes:

If lets say somehow magically all of the dust in Remnant was immediately nullified, how screwed would they be (1 being pretty fucked, but able to recover, 10 being making Mad Max's world look like pre-fall Rapture by comparison). Yeah all humans and faunus would probably be wiped off the map by Grimm with only a few survivors.

Now lets say that (since Earth's primary fuel is oil and its derivatives like petrolium) all of the oil on Earth was suddenly nullified, how fucked would we be? Still fucked probably, but not as badly; we could recover from it in due time.