Common Sense Corner

[JayRay]

you're also assuming that the highly-civilized Shinra Corporation, with stylized technzology, Mako reactors, and refined spacea-ge robotics would be using less than high-alloy steels and that the Buster sword's size represents a weight that we are used to seeing with this type of sword.

Most of the pictures of the buster blade Do look to have most of the weight in the hilt and handle, not in the actual blade itself, like maybe the fulcrum of the blade itself is in the hilt.

Just Sayin, Throughout history, large machetes, falchions, two handed greatswords, and odachi have been wielded well, despite what looks like being an ineffective war weapon, and while we have never used anything in history quite like this, keep this in mind, In 1970, during the Vietnam War, a U.S. Marine hand crafted a sword using a portion of one of the Huey UH-1 main propellers which had broken off during the crash after his chopper was shot down, tied together with one of the rods from the exposed tail section from that same crash. This makeshift machete stood at roughly 4 and a half feet long (53 inches), and weighed 22 pounds, and while not as large or pronounced as the Buster, served the Marine well as his only weapon as he hacked through jungle environments as well as probably a few Viet Cong troops on his way through a journey to his lines.