Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.59.184-20140809221526/@comment-72.49.174.154-20151120230405

I did ask the question which way the hack went... was it from Ozpin's desk to Ironwood's scroll, or from the scroll to the desk? The reason I ask is that I'm pretty sure that scrolls work like cell phones... connected to the nearest cell node... in this case the Beacon/Vale CCT. If she hacked into the CCT (which she did), she'd be able to monitor all scrolls attached to the node. Was the information that Ironwood accessed on his scroll, or was it a feed, through the CCT from Atlas databases? Regardless, if Cinder is a hacker of any talent, she'd have installed the hack with certain keywords or identity markers of people she wanted to hack. It verywell could be that Ironwood was one of those.

It still bothers me that Ironwood starts touting the Atlesian paladins, and apologizes for not having any to show as he's pitching them, yet Torchwick already has a trainload of them already in Vale... presumably from someone directly involved in the Atlesian military. The words to the second season theme are rather prophetic as well... it leads you to believe that all is not as simple as it would seem...

now its time to say goodbye to the things we loved and the innocence of youth with a doubt in our minds why we chose this life and at times we can't help wondering...

were we born to fight and die? sacrificed for one huge lie? are we heroes keeping peace? or are we weapons? pointed at the enemy so someone else can claim a victory?

These two passages here in Time to say Goodbye (Second Season theme) might be hinting that the true pawns might not be Oz, Glynda and Ironwood but the very students they are teaching. My question is... Who is the Queen Qrow referred to when he texted Ozpin "Queen has Pawns"? Obvious possibilities are Cinder (giving this one a low possibility... if she were anything more than a student herself with any modicum of power, she'd be better known to everyone, Winter Schnee, who being so close to the Schnee Dust Company, has a modicum of power, standing within the Atlesian Miitary and contacts to help keep her possible involvement hidden, or maybe Raven Branwen, Yang's Mother. Red Like Roses II seems to be a ballad between Yang and Raven. Raven is missing and presumed dead (we know she's not... Yang and everyone else is not so sure). What better way to go undercover than to make everyone presume you are dead?  So far all the info we have doesn't support anything more than suppositions but there are a lot of "implications" to support any of them. Raven is particularly troubling. She appears to be undercover in the White Fang judging from the mask she wore. Neo seemed to know her and was truly frightened when Raven showed and neo fled the scene rather than press the attack (nice to know something can make the little psycho into a frightened little child).

Qrow was undercover on an intel operation and according to Ironwood out of contact for an extended time. Not so out of contact with Ozpin, as he sent short messages to him to keep him apprised. Why would Qrow fight Winter? What does he know? Who is the Queen Qrow referred to? Qrow and Ozpin seem to know...