Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

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I'm a tad late to the rubber bullet discussion, but to add to how ridiculous thing is, when Zoral Ja's army tried to attack again, they defeated armored soldiers and ships by shooting them with rubber bullets. Unless I missed something and they suddenly switched to actual bullets, none of this makes sense. Because in the very first attack on Tuliyollal you can see that steel weapons aren't enough to break their armor. If anyone wants to see https://youtu.be/WDRv6jQrOgc?si=nJK-98yp0IXVnv3D 1:00 where Gulool Ja Ja can't pierce this soldier with his heavy weapon but I guess rubber bullets can smh)

Maybe they’re “special” rubber bullets that are somehow safe enough to fire at people, but also can disable or seriously damage robots of unknown/alien metal :/. They could have went with that (special rubber damages alien metal) but then how would Estinien be able to help fight. Unless they gave him a rubber lance/spear and we missed that hand off lol

Also even IRL rubber bullets still can hurt a ton with serious or fatal injuries so…don’t see how much “safer” rubber bullets are other than lowering deaths by duels.

But overall the rubber bullets just are nonsensical especially in the invasion context. It’s like, is the robot army super strong cuz it’s hard to use normal metal weapons on them, or are they so weak if we throw a bouncy ball at them they go down easily enough for a small western town +1 OP Dragoon too take them out.

Edit: Also, let’s imagine they switched from rubber to real bullets for the fight. Where did the real bullets come from and how’d they get enough to defend the town in short order? The story kinda sorta implies the rubber bullet thing has been around for a while so I’d assume they wouldn’t keep real bullets for a “just in case” scenario. Especially with how there’s like 0 conflicts, in Tural as a whole, that seemingly can’t be easily solved with peace talks or food.

I’d maybe believe they had real bullets tucked away somewhere if the crooked deputy kept them for his gang. That would have been interesting to add to the stealing for riches side job he had maybe.