A claw is a claw again: reach, reel speed and lift capacity, nothing else. The new weapon slot carries nine mounts of its own, from the stock Single-Tube Flare Launcher up through the Leviathan Lance, each declaring one of four firing styles — cannon, launcher, salvo or torpedo — that the catalogue itself enforces. One rule sits underneath every tier of it, stated outright rather than left to be discovered as a gap: no weapon, at any rarity, carries a Pearl socket. A socketed, refined weapon would put raw firepower on the same deep upgrade ladder Pearls already own for every other stat — keeping the gun off that ladder is a deliberate line.
Rockets are their own consumable cargo item, bought with crystals and spent from the cockpit against breakable rock. The selected x1/x5 salvo, charge, ammo count and out-of-ammo shop path are live controls; rockets are not tied to one weapon and never use Nauts.