Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-15049228-20131004024906/@comment-68.196.29.49-20131010015007

WC-83 wrote: We got Aura grenades, Dust Rifles, Light Rockets, and Dust operted Ball-breakers!

-Nora

In all seriousness I really think they may have those, but I think they should have combat versions of the airships You good sir, just made my day. Did Nora ever say that in the show? If so, I really need to watch that scene. Although, you have brought some good points up, material I can work with.

Grenades, have in truth been around for a long time, several centuries in fact. I don't remember when the first recorded examples of primative grenades were used, but the ninjas of fudeual Japan did use a type of grenade where they inserted crushed glass and ghost peppers into a shatter easy ball, throwing them against samurais exposed eye sockets in their helmets. Various other cultures also incorporated this, when in WWII, they became standard issue equipment. Now, Grenades on Vytal are going to be a bit tricky to cover, but I can try.

Assuming that Aura theories and fanfiction stories are plausible and not entirely false, Aura can be morphed into basic shapes, or more advanced ones after reading a story called "Of Another D'Arc", by KSLCross on Fanfiction. But that also makes me think, if you can morph your aura into at least basic shapes, evidenced by Ren's Aura Force field in Episode 7, could you expel Aura it self? A bit like, letting air leave your body, and having just Auraical energy in the air, or something similar to that? I mean, if Aura can be released in a shape, who's to say you couldn't make solidified objects, in this case greandes, from it? Or better yet, a whole host of objects, such as ammunition, armor, weapons, repairing riddled armor by patching the holes with Aura, etc. That also brings up the question as to whether Aura need a constant link of communication to your soul in order to be used. And Aura that is realeased, would it still be yours, such as White for Jaune, or would it became neutral, as it has no current connection to a soul? To KSLCross, I apoligize if you find it offensive that I have been using you as an example of Aura forming, but your ideas intrested me. Another thing that I take into consideration is Aura and Dust interaction. As there are no theories that I've found and no canon info, I can't really say how Dust will react to Aura. But what is definetly possible is a grenade concept, using Dust, Aura and sharpnel. If you substituted Gunpowder for Dust, made the outer and inner mechanisms pure Aura, meaning the shell and timer are also Aura made, I can see an effect like the Holy Hand Grenade from Fallout New Vegas. Because damn, is that thing scary.

I apologize for asking, but what exactly do you mean by Light Rockets, and Dust operated Ballbreakers?

I assume that Light Rockets is a reference to Junior’s Rocket Launcher, and the projectiles it uses, but I really don’t get the last one. I’ll get to Junior’s weapon later.

As for the combat variants of the airships they use, let me direct you to these:



The Havoc Skytank has numerous weapons and armor shells. It's weapons are a Main cannon that extends from the bottom where it must then charge to deliver a devestating energy attack. It has Plasma Blasters which are are turrets with the power to shoot out weaponized Plasma, Along with what I assume to be 40mm Cannon fire at a decent rate of fire. It also has missle barrages, in which it uses stored high explosive missiles against enemy targets. It no less than 4 armor platings as well.

You have to admit, the Havoc Skytank does look a bit similar to Vytal’s airships. And these are also slow moving and are heavily armored. As for how armored Vytal’s airships are, well, that’s a bit tricky. Going back to episode 1, Ruby Rose, we see a VTOL blocking Glynda’s spear by using its armored parts, but, we also see no effect occurring from Crimson’s assumed Aura useage, and Glynda’s Ice Storm spell piercing the cockpit, forcing Roman to move forward. I assume that the spear is concrete formed together by Dust since Crimson blew up the rooftop, and Glynda used those pieces for the spear. That’s logical, considering steel is able to withstand concrete. I can totally see airship fleets raining Hellish Dust blasts from long range down onto hordes of Grimm.