Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180120015359/@comment-24994749-20180122163032

There is also that just having a Vacuoiang with them might make entering Vacuo easier.

Something that has been on my mind for a while: Vacuo doesn't have the best relationship with Atlas and Mistral, historically speaking. And during the Great War they were capable of kicking both out because they allied with Vale.

Now Vale is down for the count. And from your average Vacuo denizen pov, Atlas had a hand on it. Whose to say that in the year since the Fall of Beacon they haven't pulled together like they did during the Great War?

That scenerio could be made slightly less bad, if they have banded together under the headmaster of Shade, since it was said the Academy is the closest thing to a gov they have, and the headmaster should be on Ozpin's side.