Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20150808021719/@comment-14909251-20151216231342

KNN005 wrote: I like where you're going with this. She did pop in and out of town saying she was "transporting" soldiers or mechs or something. She could've been. But who's to say she didn't also slide a few things Cinder's way. She could've hooked Torch up with the Paladin too. She said the RWBY team wouldn't be able to beat non-prototype Paladins. Maybe their use was a test (with the WFs as the guinea pig) before finding out if the finished Paladins would be better for the villains. Winter stated that she was guarding a shipment after the previous one had been hijacked. So, this theory would mean she had the previous shipment's route leaked to the right people for it to get hijacked and then used that hijacking as a pretext to head to Vale herself. That does make for an interesting coincidence that she showed up just as her superior is apparently hacked by Cinder. It may not be the case that Winter is a villain, but maybe there is some sort of shady background deal going on here. Perhaps this is more a matter of people in Atlas aligning themselves in secret with Cinder's people without fully understanding what their secret allies are planning.