Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-70.195.132.71-20151104222310

After watching the second episode of volume 3 a few times I started wondering and speculating about the weapons of the two team from Vacuo (yes I’m assuming Shade is an academy in Vacuo, but it seems very likely right now), I’m counting Sun as an anomaly who is outside the norm because he moved to Haven in Mistral for this theory. With those two assumptions in mind I’m wondering if the majority of huntsmen and huntresses in Vacuo use more “simplistic” or less “mechanically complex” weapons. Out of the 8 members of both team BRNZ and NDGO only one member had a weapon that transformed (making a blade pop out of a cross bow probably wasn’t to complex either). The rest of team NDGO had weapons that appeared to have been infused with dust rather then turning into guns, while the sniper rifle was the only weapon on team BRNZ that look to even be possible large enough to transform into something else (though I doubt it because it shape seemed to naturally work as some kind of club or axe).

Geography and climate have historically had effects on the culture of the people who live in certain regions. When team NDGO got the sandy terrain on the side of the field they commented on having a home field advantage. Also in the previous episode when they showed viewers from “all around the world tuning in,” they showed four location which may have been one location from each of the four kingdoms, the last of which was had three fanaus outside a trailer or RV, the landscape in the background was rugged like the Australian outback and may have meant to represent what Vacuo is like (though that is just a guess on my part). The more moving parts something has the more maintenance required to keep it in working order, and sandy conditions (especially areas that experience sand storms) will likely up the amount of maintenance need. In really bad conditions during Vacuo’s past when transforming weapons where not as advance and being introduce for the first time, they may have even experience mechanical failure. This likely resulted in the people of Vacuo favoring on more “simplistic and reliable” weapons over “advance, complicated and higher chance to break” weapons.

Granted the transforming weapons tech might be farther along now, and more people are using in haven today. Still I'm theorizing that because of the climate and geography the culture, established martial art styles, and military doctrines of Vacuo heavily favor more simplistic weapons with utilitarian designs (the sniper rifle and buzz saw blades of teams Bronze could function as melee and range weapons without transforming), or melee weapons that are infuse with dust rather then also being a gun (lance, sword, and daggers of team NDGO). So more huntsman and huntresses from Vacuo re more likely to use those kinds of weapons.

So what do you guy think, and do you have any theory of your own about the overall trends of weapons in any of the other kingdoms such as Atlas focusing on autonomous units, or maybe you think that out of the four Kingdoms Vale is the one that embraces and utilizes transforming weapons tech the most.

Regardless I’d like to hear what other people think about the weapons trends of the different lands. I mean even in the real world we have such trends. During the American Revolution the continental army’s minute men place emphasis on sharp shooting rifles over volume firing with muskets.

-Defcon Deceiver 