User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/The Bigger Story Behind the Story/@comment-11188061-20141019082638

The propoganda is a necessity. The more insecure they feel, the more attracted the Grimm will be. That they can literally taste the weakness in people's heart makes them incredibly annoying to deal with (imagine dungeon crawling where the lower the HP/Morale of your party, the higher rate the enemy encounter will be).

To say that Beacon Academy's background check stinks is bullshit. Those are exchange students from another Kingdom; if everything in the paper checks out who are they to deny them entry? On flimsy grounds and zero evidence it might even strain relationships between Kingdoms because of Beacon's fame as the best Hunter Academy in Vale. You can't even conduct an investigation on them without attracting attention, and why will Beacon want to conduct a secret investigation onto a student who seems perfectly fine and normal? If there is someone you want to blame, you should blame Haven for allowing Cinder to gather the perfect papers to fake her entry (along with passport and all those shit).

It was a major expansion. The civilians' choice aside, I sincerely doubt the investors would allow it to go down just because they had a few minor setbacks. Obviously their persistence backfired and the people got slaughtered by subterranean Grimm, but to get caught completely by surprise (if they knew they wouldn't hide underground in the first place) and only lose thousands of lives? I call that incredibly lucky. There's a hero's story (and survival horror game) right here.