Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-32598036-20140325121214/@comment-136.224.132.220-20140325200312

82.12.156.248 wrote: I believe Monty said at one point that ALL weapons used dust in some way shape or form. Considering it's peggd as an energy propellant by Blake it's possible that they may use it as gunpowder. The White Fang is a big organisation, it's basically a small Faunus army, they're gonna need a lot of dust to keep them supplied... especially if they intend to attack Beacon or the Vytal Festival. Dust could work like gunpowder for weapons, but it could also work like ellement zero in the Mass Effect universe. Where the ellement is a critical hardware component of the gun and doesn't need to be replaced unless damaged. I mainly think this because in Episode 1 we see Dust in both crystal and a grain or liquid form (when they where stealing dust out of the tubes it remained me of getting gas at a pump). So dust may be used as both an non-renewable energy source, as well as a lasting conduit that produce a field of a desirable effect. I wouldn't be surprised if Weiss' Myrtenaster isn't partly composed of Dust crystal circuits, and have dust in its fuel form inside the revolver part that is burned up as weiss unleashes her mor mystic like attack.

But back to the original point of this thread, if dust is used as a non-renewable energy source simmilar to gas and gunpowder, Cinder and her followers will need to continuosly seek more of if they want to fuel either an army or a small strike force. If dust crystals are a vital component of the weapons themselves, they would need to steal it if they wished to create a large amount of weapons, or possibly one very powerful weapon.