Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140829002738/@comment-11188061-20140831235739

@Bismarkus

... That's... an exceptionally childish way of interpreting the state of Remnant.

Kindergartens I'm not sure, but even elementary schools have basic certificates to prove that the student has completed their studies. Why the hell will they not have degrees?

On the contrary, the Hunters are definitely under a nation's soverignty. The board game alone tells us enough that there are three main type of forces in Remnant - The Hunters, The Androids (or should I put it the Inorganic), and The Grimm. Atlas is almost certainly the only nation whose technological capabilities and philosophies to build an army mainly consisting of Androids, so everyone else will have to be Hunters, or possibly Grimm Tamers (considering Yang's position). And unless the Kingdoms are utter idiots, anyone with half a brain will try to control as many of these Hunters as possible and not them roam free 'in a time of peace' where the Grimm are no longer a threat. Once upon a time, sure, the Grimm threat outweights everything, but now? Hell no.

Like, the Kingdom are preparing for war against each other. Where the hell do you think they're getting their troops?

Just the rich outlook of Beacon Academy is enough to tell that they're at the very least government-sponsored, because so far no one has called them out to be also a Dust mining corporation (if that is the case then they can be private, because they have more than enough to fund themselves, but even then they'll have to pay tribute to the Kingdom). As they are the best Hunter Academy in Vale, that also indirectly puts Beacon under direct control of the Vytal Kingdom.

Ironwood will not pull a direct confrontation against Ozpin, nor, I think, that he wishes to do so. To begin with, he ''cannot. ''At the moment I cannot prove this, but Ozpin is probably one of the few Huntsmen who can easily massacre an entire army singlehandedly, and that's without mentioning the professors who seems entirely capable of taking down a battalion or two themselves. You're looking down on Beacon way too much.

But ultimately, I just think he respects Ozpin too highly to do such a slight. What he hopes to do is to stop Ozpin from interfering directly with his plans.

The assumption that Vale will not interfere may have its basis, if only because Beacon is Vale's military unit (what kind of stupidity is it to send a hundred police who can't fight even a single Hunter, or even an Atlesian Paladin? Might as well just perform their natural duty, which is to evacuate the civilians to a safe place), but I'm not understanding your insurgent comment. Since when was such a thing ever mentioned?

And no, Ironwood cannot justify shit especially if he loses, because that will be seen as a direct act of violence against the Vytal Kingdom, and thus a declaration of war. If that was his purpose in the first place then he doesn't need to justify anything, because Atlas will do it for him. You seem to confuse Ironwood as the king of Atlas who can just order someone's head chopped off and be praised for it. While he may be the mastermind behind Atlas pulling the strings, he is in the end just at most a commander and headmaster. This is the modern world; he cannot control everything.