Talk:Haven's Fate/@comment-70.164.250.74-20180209191654/@comment-5430952-20180302081352

1) You do remember the academy was built by Ozpin, right?  And since Ozpin is presumed dead, he won't be able to rebuild it as it was before, not without alerting the world is his presence anyway.

And Salem wouldn't need to target Mistral as a whole, not with the threat of the Second Great War looming on the horizon. The war could easily do the job for her, then she could send in "the thigns she's made," as Qrow describes them, to finish the job.

2) It has nothing to do with the Relic, she'll raze the Academy because Ozpin built it.  She promised to do so in "End of the Beginning."

Salem: How does it feel, knowing that all of your time and effort has been for nothing? That your guardians have failed you? That everything you've built will be torn down before your very eyes?

So she's bound to finish the job in time, because just like Adam, she has a promise to keep.

As for shocking people and improving security in other Academies, who's gonna get the word out? Cinder took care of that by destroying Beacon Tower, and the CCT with it. That was the whole idea, divide and conquer.

3) One that was only useful until Haven fell, then he would've died as well.  It goes back to point 2, she intends to destroy all the Huntsman Academies because they were built by Ozpin.  Without them, there'll be no more Huntsmen to be trained, thus neutralizing the greatest threat to her plans.