Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-130.245.192.22-20170629055623/@comment-25936766-20170629211417

SpiritedDreaming wrote: But in a world that is powered by dust, to the extent that they are completely reliant on it for everything, why wouldn't they use Dust for barriers? They've already shown that literally the first answer to every problem technologically is dust - it provides their electricity, powers their trains, fires their weapons, everything. Exactly. And that is why, why would they not use Dust as energy for the technology that creates the Barriers?

They use Dust for everything, just like you say. Dust is their universal fuel. Which is why, instead of jumping to conclusions that "Barrier Dust is a thing", we can just pick what Occam Razor's recommends: There's tech that creates barriers, and like everything else, it uses Dust as energy.

Don't you see, Spirit? Whatever you say about "Barrier Dust", the exact same logic works for "Dust that powers Tech that creates Barriers". But the latter is simpler, because:

-"Barrier Dust" has the specific premise that "Barrier Dust exists". But Barrier Dust has never been confirmed, it's only an hypothesis.

-"Barrier-generators powered by Dust" has the premises that 1) There's technology that can create barriers (and given Remnant's average tech level, it's very likely, at least in some places). And 2) It can use Dust as fuel (since nearly every other technology in Remnant uses Dust as fuel, this premise is confirmed).

Meaning, this is an Hypothesis VS A perfectly-believable idea with a confirmed secondary idea. Technology that makes Barriers, just like in nearly every Sci-Fy work. Only this time it's battery is called, say, Lightning Dust, which is common and super-confirmed.

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@Chish: Well, there's also the fact that V2 was miles better than V1 in the animation department (V3 even more), so the rings in Weiss and Neo's cases may have looked different from Ren's due to superior effects.

But on that account, let me ask: Did Cinder block Pyrrha's shots at some point during their fight? If she did, it would be best to compare that with Ren's rings and the ones in the Colosseum/made by Weiss, to see if they really look different due to higher budget.

............That said, that is regarding the idea of Weiss's barrier being the same Aura technique that Ren and Cinder used before her.

While that idea becomes questionable given Amity has the same effect (unless one assumes they reused it for both cases to save on time and money), if we follow the idea that Weiss and Amity Colosseum's barriers are caused by Technology instead of being an Aura technique (in Weiss's case), then both cases looking the same makes perfect sense.