Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151213162620/@comment-26872876-20151222082129

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Grimmstride wrote:

I don't see that working. I could see Penny going rogue and attacking an innocent stadium, but placing the blame on Atlas won't work imo. Especially with the Maiden protectors knowing the enemy is present and hacked into the network before hand. It shouldn't be hard for them to put two and two together.

It would certainly turn up the fear factor. There is no reason to believe they know they've been hacked. I don't think any of them have hinted at being aware of a hack. Even if they do realize that something fishy is going on, what are they gonna do about it? Cinder is hacked into the cameras, the live worldwide broadcasts, and the communication nodes. She gets to decide who is heard, what gets heard, and what people see.

Given that the Grimm are gathered outside and the White Fang are involved with Cinder's crew, they can move things forward in such a way that it won't even matter if a small group of people know who is really responsible. They can use the appearance of an unprovoked aggression from Atlas as a pretext for White Fang resistance, and have the Grimm loosed on the area to sow more confusion. Just kill enough people on all sides to insure that no one is even going to care about true fault.

What the world will see and what most in Vale will see, is that Atlas launched an unprovoked attack on a tournament that symbolizes peace between the Kingdoms and left a swath of devastation in its wake. Not to mention they can, potentially, use the confusion as a means to eliminate certain people who might impede that plan. They could also maybe sneak down into the vault and have Cinder take the rest of Amber's Maiden powers.

Except they saw the terminal have the queen symbol hacked into the screen. Hence why they already know their enemy is here. Now sure, they don't know that their systems have been hijacked to the point Cinder has 100% access. However, the minute everything goes to shit, and Ironwood claims he didn't do anything, I wager Ozpin would be smart enough to connect dots. Penny goes crazy and the shields to a stadium that doesn't belong to Atlas drops? And they know their enemy is present and planning their moves.

The only question on whether the situation gets placed as Atlas aggression is whether or not Ozpin wants to include world councils in on what is going on.