Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-85.130.101.225-20130816112245/@comment-25045079-20140816172005

Andrew S-997 wrote: Well, considering there is a "forgotten past" in RWBY, they could pull a Destiny in terms of Ancient tech.

Meaning, the Golden Age was hundreds of years ago, and a disaster brought us to our knees and set us back technologically. Maybe the same thing is the case here - Ancient tech in RWBY was actually far stronger than current tech.

So here's how I see it happening - Jaune trains his ass off with Pyrrha untill (Years later) he's a functioning member of the team and can stand on his own two feet. However, his lack of a dual-purpose weapon puts him at a disadvantage - so even though he's now very skilled, he's still the weakest fighter in the main cast.

Enter an Grimm-hunting trip outside of the City, where he finds ancient ruins. Jaune, being himself, explores against his team's better judgement and finds an ancient Super-Sword with entirely OP abilities. But for some reason, only Jaune can use it. Maybe it leaches your Aura (And we know Jaune has crazy amounts) to make the sword able to cut through anything - even Aura defences. So it's the strongest weapon in the show.

Suddenly, Jaune's the strongest fighter in the group. But he still has to be a master swordsman to use the weapon - he's not stronger because plot, he's stronger because he earned it.

That's how I see a Jaune-finds-an-ancient-sword plot arc going. Or it is a one hit kill, and it knocks the user out because of the one hit kill, so, him being the weakest member means he can pull a mini sacrfice and let his team finish mopping the rest up.