Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170112165458/@comment-14138255-20170118172449

While a central base is simpler and has the potential to be easily defensable, multiple smaller bases allow for more things to go wrong without nearly as many consequences (and a big secret base can only be secret for so long before the ubiquotous Grimm discover it).

It's why terrorist organizations can exist for so long, they all exist as self contained cells, where if one goes down, another survives, and if the central command falls apart, another can step up and replace it, and the names of those one cell are a mystery to the others, to prevent security leaks if they are captured. The Huntsman Academies are not terrorist cells by any means, but they are at least self-contained and thus easily survivable if one falls.

The only problem I see is the CCT towers being tied to them, making communication harder if/when they do fall (yeah, the ideal of equal communication is nice Oz, but if one needs help, you're going to want to call them and have them arrive in a reasonable time).