#acaru

The weapon she's using is an Dokurian energy scythe, they are used primarily to attack from unexpected angles breaking their covers, helped by the fact that the user of this weapon can fly. Energy melee weapon are used in this scifi setting because there's personal shield which prevents kinetic weapons such as guns from damaging you, only susceptible to a continuous barrage or other sort of energy weapons such as plasma guns or highly powered lasers, however these carries the baggage of being very limited by range and the fact that the projectile of these weapons are fairly slow compared to regular old guns.