Toxinvictory
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How are guns competitive in a setting with DBZ level of ki attacks? I really don't see how they could be useful against planet busters.
Edit: also, just wondering, but why is Atlas the name of a star kingdom while Vale is only the name of a planet?
Well firstly you need to consider what is meant by DBZ level attacks? For the sake of this story we're working on the leveling system of Freeza being the acknowledged most powerful Aura user currently alive. High end Aura users with potent semblances (ala Qrow, WInter) is the kind of power that the Ginyu force has. A serious fight between notable but not exception Aura users with Dust to spend on KI Blasts is far closer to Goku and Vegeta's first match in the Saiyan Saga in which Vegeta throws a total of five KI attack's (Kill Nappa, Shot at Goku, Shot at Goku, Galick Gun and Great Ape Mouth Blast).
Guns are competitive in setting for the simple reason that KI blasts are more costly and don't produce that much more of a result pound for pound. An aura users ability to hurl KI blasts is dependent on how much Dust they have because each blast consumes an equivalent amount of Dust. Experienced users of the blasting series techniques have a higher efficiency of Dust to explosion but in a fight where you throw around KI blasts exclusively your going to run out in short order.
Blowing up planets isn't in the range of KI Attacks that can be thrown around by just anyone here, Freeza is about the only confirmed person who can pull that trick off and even he needs to be in his final form along with using a specialized technique to manage it. Vegeta, a relatively wealthy, powerful and well supplied/equipped frontier PTO agent could by using up say 90% of all the Dust at his disposal manage a nuke level blast.
The absolute upper crust of the PTO (Dodoria, Zarbon, The Ginyu's, Freeza) the guys with the accumulated wealth of hundreds of worlds at their back have enough Dust worked into their Armour to have fighting styles that freely use KI blasts and even they tend to go in for hand to hand combat or Semblance based tactics with KI blasts as supplements/finishing moves. The more regular forces uses guns and blades like the rest of the galaxy.
Incidentally this is why the PTO used the Saiyans as shock troops, the Saiyans natural abilities (abnormal strength, recovery, Ape transformation), fondness for unarmed combat and warrior culture meant the PTO could just throw them at a problem with minimal armour/weapons and have the problem be solved. If the Saiyans took appalling casualties with every assault and the survivors came out badly wounded and or scarred for life .... well the Saiyan's saw battle as a justification in of itself along with a cultural viewpoint of "if your weak enough to die you deserve to" so they didn't object.
Freeza can fight the way he fights through a combination of being absurdly wealthy and having a semblance that lets him cheat. Most everyone else gets by through some combination of weaponry, semblance and unarmed skill. So Coco's mingun is a perfectly viable weapon IC.
Hope that clears things up
As for the naming style, short answer it amused me, longer answer I have politics relating to that topic plotted out.
Hundreds.
Mostly between the interaction of KI and dust, since I'd much rather use KI (from a setting I know) rather than dust BS.
Short answer, KI has been replaced with http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/Aura , Aura users can learn to do all the stuff KI users could do: Flight, blasts, etc. http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/Dust is required for using KI Blasts as I explain above.