Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4830106-20130809183159/@comment-10390252-20130814205703

Nixeu wrote: Hey guys. Just thought you might be interested: look closely at  Pyrrha's spear. It's also a gun. You can see the trigger. Looks like the head of the spear rotates and is the grip, and shaft is the barrel.

Myrtenaster has a trigger too but, as far as I can tell, it doesn't have a gun mode; it's just the activation system for the various Dust payloads.

My own guess regarding Magnospear is that it can collapse its shaft into the wider forward body just behind the spearhead. With the length reduced by more than half, Pyrrha can use it as a kind of sword. I also wonder if the spearhead can contain a Dust crystal payload. The way Jaune went ragdoll after that near miss makes me wonder if it had been loaded with a low-power electric-effect crystal and that he had been effectively tasered.