Headscratchers / Unreal

• There are hardly any trees seen on Na Pali. A few palms, that's all. Where did Nali get all the wood required for their constructions? There's quite a lot of wooden stuff, including roofs, furniture and various mechanisms.
• Why was the squid removed from the game when it's fully functional?
• Which of the weapons belong to Skaarj and which to Humans? You can encounter Skaarj Troopers armed with Stingers but three crewmembers of ISV Kran also had these guns when making a stand in the aft.
  • Epic wasn't too clear on which weapons belong to whom. Dispersion Pistol, Automag, ASMD, and Rifle are definitely human, Stinger and Razorjack are obviously Skaarj, and the Bio Rifle most likely belongs to the Mercenaries based on two facts: you first find it in the Terraniux, and it's based on a cut flamethrower which belongs to said species. The Eightball Gun, the Minigun, and the Flak Cannon are rather ambiguous. For the Eightball Gun, I have a feeling that it's a Nali weapon, leftover from their pre-pacifistic days, and so many were captured by the Skaarj and used by them. The Flak Cannon is either another pre-pacifistic Nali weapon or a Skaarj weapon, as there's a translator message by a Nali in Harobed Village that says he'll try to retrieve the "sky demon's weapon" from the abbey, but another message from another Nali says the Skaarj don't know about "our secret" in the abbey. The Minigun may be human, but you first find it in the Sunspire, and then you find a second one in the Mothership carried by a Skaarj Infantry. Also, in RTNP, you first find it in the Foundry Tarydium Plant, a Skaarj-owned location. Of course, it makes sense that you see humans using Skaarj weapons, as they most definitely scavenged them for survival (ISV Kran was there for three months so they had plenty of time to obtain some).

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