Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-30834975-20170917082551/@comment-26397825-20170917104115

I think it served the purpose it was supposed to be used for - get Roman onto the Atlas airship so he was in the perfect place to take control of the Atlas robots, get Ironwood put in charge of security so that his robots would be the main force on the ground during the festival, and cause panic and strife through the city.

It was however set off days early, as you pointed out. I think she originally intended for it to be set off later, when the rest of the students at Beacon had actually left for their first missions. This would have reduced the amount of people in Vale able to respond to the situation, making it much more destructive than it was. Breach was overal not very destructive; it was contained to one area, and multiple teams were still in the city and able to cut off the flow of Grimm before they even got out of that area, and then the Atlas armada swept in and cleaned it all up in just a few minutes. A lot of people got hurt - but no one died.

Basically it sufficed for her plans, but it was anywhere near the amount of chaos she had hoped to spread and there were a lot of White Fang people caught in the blast, which led to real concerns over whether they would still follow her later plans for the festival. It was only because of Adam that she retained their services after so many of their people got caught in the train wreck.