User blog comment:IceFireWarden0/Speculations for Season 11/@comment-5259531-20130719010154/@comment-4616231-20130719014106

Boltshot is just a tool, RT knows not everyone who watches the show has Halo so they're not going to make it special because in-game it's Forerunner. Because not everyone is expected to know that. The only thing I've seen to be the exception to this was the Engineer, where you would've had to of known that it was their symbol on the Sarcophagus, and also what an Engineer actually was and why they would need one. But in this case the Boltshot is just a weapon used as something else, like how Doc's plasma pistol is a medical scanner.