The RYNO could be purchased by Ratchet and used during his sequences. In fact, the ammunition price was the same as in the original Ratchet & Clank. By this point, the model had been drastically redesigned in appearance, although functionally it operated extremely similarly.

It is purchased at a vendor, on planet Quodrona in challenge mode (after Otto Destruct was defeated in a previous playthrough). The RYNO is most expensive in this installment at 9,999,999 bolts. Furthermore, later installments in the RYNO series - notably the RYNO IV and onward - were made illegal, so for Clank to be unaware of the weapons is also a possibility. It could also suggest the RY3NO was yet to be developed or manufactured. Though the RYNO II in Going Commando is a more powerful launcher, sold at a vendor that is implied to have operated for years, this weapon featured in the Bogon and not Solana, suggesting that the RYNO could still have been the most powerful weapon in Solana. This may suggest that later iterations of the RYNO were yet to be developed or released. The weapon, according to Clank, as the strongest missile launcher in the galaxy during the events of the game. At the time the weapon is sold, the player is very unlikely to earn 150,000 bolts, or even to earn that many in their first play-through, meaning a purchase on a second or third play-through is far more likely. Clank suggests that the salesman stole the weapon from the Blarg, who responds very defensively, which suggests that Clank's suspicions were true. Ratchet and Clank meet the salesman on the way to the Hoverboard games, who calls them over offering to sell the RYNO. In Ratchet & Clank, the RYNO is sold by the black market shady salesman in Blackwater City on Rilgar for 150,000.

This may suggest that the Blarg and Gadgetron both developed the weapon prior to Chairman Drek's attack on Gadgetron, or that the weapon changed hands from the Blarg to Gadgetron at a point in time. However, in subsequent installments, the weapon, as with later weapons in the RYNO series, was developed by Gadgetron, being sold in Gadgetron vendors. In the original Ratchet & Clank, it is implied that the weapon was developed by the Blarg, from which the weapon has been stolen. The history of the RYNO's development is left ambiguous.

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