User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Volume 2 episode 7: Dance Dance Infiltration/@comment-10390252-20140912101024

I'm thinking the upload is a virus that is going to kill Vytal City's communications and defences, letting in the Grimm and basically rendering the city unable to co-ordinate emergency services to deal with the ongoing disaster as White Fang, the Grimm and Roman's crimainal empire all rise up simultaneously.

This will do two things for Cinder:


 * 1) It gives Ironwood's army a chance to save the day, thus fulfilling her end of the bargain that led him to arm White Fang on her behalf;
 * 2) It creates a massive distraction for her, Emerald and Mercury to do something - either assassinate a senior figure or two (their List maybe?) or perhaps steal a McGuffin.

Naturally, it is in the middle of this catastrophe that RWBY and JNPR save the day. I've got a feeling that they're going to be the jokers in the pack that Cinder's strategy didn't anticipate and, even if she might get a partial success, she won't get everything out of the incident that she's looking to achieve.

I'm thinking that, at the end of Episode 12, we're going to have something similar to the medal ceremony from the end of A New Hope where the people of Vytal get to acclaim their new (and likely, profoundly stunned and nervous) saviours.