Poptart made a comment earlier about a small number of Goku Stylists who integrated staff fighting into the style, so weapon styles are clearly developable for other tools.
Kakara did fairly through research, and all but the most obscure and personalized styles are ancestor ones, and are the ones listed in the lore page.
I mean, aside from the obvious reason of "inability to interact with an instructor" in that most of the people she might normally train under either can't see her, or can see her only in their dreams, or what have you, right?
Don't think 40 trillion would be enough.
Probably still not enough. Hell, I don't really think 4 Quintillion would be enough. This is a threat that makes Zeno concerned afterall. Not sure this a problem that can be beaten through power.
Various weapons have been tried, although swords are the only ones to have found mass adoption. In general, materials science is something of which the Exiles didn't lose much; their weapons remain relevant by dint of being belief-defyingly strong. That said, on a Lord's level...not so much. And research into overcoming that gap is not precisely incentivized by the folks up top.
Many! As noted above, a lot of things simply didn't get written down by their creators. Bulma Kane is technically recognized as a master of several styles, but her primary is Yamcha. What you saw from her was her having multiple capstone fighting traits. She (by now, most certainly) was a masterful fighter.
...Wait, should we be interpreting that as "Bulma Kane is most certainly dead?" Because my understanding is that it's been less than twelve months elapsed time since the tournament. And while Kane was clearly a frail old lady,* she didn't give the impression of being a terminal cancer patient or anything. Did we get news of her death off-screen, as it were? Given that she was no doubt a celebrity I'm pretty sure Kakara would have heard about that.
Yes, and thank you for clarifying that.
I've headcanoned that saiyans decline fast, at the end of their life. They remain in their physical prime up until they're on the verge of death. Bulma already looked ancient by the tournament; she retreated from public life afterwards, as is typical of many old saiyans who know their time is coming.
Given that Bassoon's own ship is a 'stealth' blockade runner, it's entirely possible that he himself has that exact kind of armor.
If there are a huge number of ASK votes, I take the top 3-4.
The Fourth Monado's power cord sure has been broke for a while
Um... I get that Saiyans have that, but wouldn't people who want to keep living just switch to there human masque and ride out human aging?
This assumes that would magically, pardon the pun, extend their lifespan. Rather than being 'yo dog you're eighty you look eighty' which is massively more likely for, you know, maintaining the masquerade.
I got the impression that Saiyans fade really really fast after a certain point, where as best I can tell humans just kind of gradually wither.
Which is assuming that the point you hit 'saiyan fastball decay' is not in fact after your human masque is already completely decrepit which is equally plausible and would encourage the opposite.
I agree that it won't always apply. But it isn't that uncommon for someone to be in there 80s and up and mobile, it seems like there human form may often be a better choice, because of at that point slower aging.
It's not like literally every saiyan ever keels over dead at exactly eighty or something, though. For all you or we know, the human masque grows gradually more and more decrepit until by the time a saiyan starts their rapid final decline, the human in question is already reduced to a terminal patient who'd be lucky not to need life support to survive.
*Shrug* I'll definitely drop it after this post, and your basic point makes a lot of sense.
