Wait a minute... There's somthing horribly wrong here!

So, we crash to cradle, and we are stuck with only spiral technology. And all of it is incredibly weak.
BUT WAIT! Rhendon is carrying a blitz needle! And if i'm not mistaken, the blitz needle uses some materials that are of gremlin tech, as well as materials that you need to reach the depths of hell to obtain!
I'm on to you rhendon...

a very interesting point you has.
And never mind that wheel chair over their in amongst the wreckage, i assure you, i wasn't coming to cradle to be wheeled around on a "Walkabout" :/

What about the colors, crimson. Rhendon must have made a deal with the gremlins, he doesn't fire at razwog during the battle, but does fire during the first scene... At his tank.
I'm still very suspicious

The knights gave him better gear because of the project used to give a fighting chance for "special knights" on field, if you notice the poor guy can't even fire that thing right... He makes less damage than an usual knight with proto gear.
But we should all use him as an example of perseverance as he never gives up, even with such odds against him.

He landed the same time with us. The blitz uses gremlin technology.
And i'm pretty sure supply depot is disabled during the first missions.
Not to mention he willingly gives the artifact to razwog, and we still go boom and survive.

Maybe they had something similar to make blitzes in their home planet? But yeah, the part where he willingly gives the artifact was kinda strange... Also, where is he? He comes to haven at the same time as us but is never seen again.

If they had the technology then, why are we walking off with such weak items?

The blitz requires nothing that cannot be made off the cradle. And has no mention of Gremlin origins.
Also, the luminite is simply a source of energy, which could come from other sources.

Yes, but it requires volcanic iron which can only be found in the depths of cradle.
I am convinced rhendon is working with the gremlins. I am also convinced that he will turn on us, and the gremlins will then turn on him

Its just Volcanic! Gah! Magma can be found almost anywhere... planet wise. Yeash, go look up those next time, please.

*thuds* talkin bout CRADLE! Not earth.
For a world that works off of sky domes, i've never seen a volcano, only vanadukes hell.

There ARE volcanoes on OTHER planets, like EARTH and many others!
-.(\
1. go to volcano
2. find iron
3. bring back to the orbiting Skylark
4. ???
5. Profit.

They need a high lv knight to help defend the recuits.
Also, think about Virgil. He is in a guardian set with a LEVI.
I'm guessing that they were delivered that, or Both of them were recuited long before the crash(hinting that all player knights are newbies, hence the ranking).

Congrats! Tsu knows common knowledge!
That doesn't change the fact the rhendon is a traitor...

I'd say the most possible way would be that he was recruited before we crashed, they sent him to protect newbies.
But then. How did he get back to Rescue Camp?

Granted we don't know much about Cradle but from what we know i think we can assume that it is dead, and dead plantes don't have volcanoes.

Rhendon's not a traitor, he's just highly incompetent.
It's highly possible he crafted his Blitz like the rest of us, by adventuring, gathering materials, and alchemizing one. In addition, the entire "standard" series of weapons (Leviathan, Valiance, Nitronome) all use Gremlin materials. Does that mean we're all Gremlins? Nope, we had other methods of manufacturing them, and now that they're lost to us, we make do with cobbling what we can find into similar weapons.
Volcanic Iron isn't restricted to Cradle, it just happens to be there. Oregon grows pumpkins, does that mean every pumpkin in the world has to originate from Oregon?
Rhendon brought a Blitz needle to a place full of constructs, when he likely had a ton of other options. Any knight worth their salt knows that Blitz Needles are really bad against constructs (50 damage on charge at D27 anyone). Not much of a stretch to think that he goof'd up somewhere else, and was sent back to protect newbies because he was a squad liability.
And stop with the ad hominem.
Rhendon bought it from Kozma.
Problem solved.
Rhendon is completely innocent. Kozma on the other hand, with what happened to Boost...