Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.18.14.163-20180325224119/@comment-27082610-20180327215124

ChishioKunrin wrote: Arkantos95 wrote: You know, I have to ask, what exactly do you guys think would've happened if Ironwood didn't bring his army? Since, you know, they were the ones who evacuated the citizens when shit hit the fan and set up a safe zone while Ozpin was doing fuck-all until the last nanosecond? Vale's local Huntsmen set up the safe zone. Qrow and Atlas' military evacuated Beacon, but we don't know if they also evacuated Vale or if Vale's Huntsmen focused on Vale Ironwood: Someone's done the impossible and gained control of my machines. And that enormous Grimm seems to be fixated on the school. Glynda, form up the local Huntsmen and establish a safe zone here in Vale. We need to evacuate Beacon. Qrow, I'm leaving that to you and my men. I still need to get to my ship. Which would've meant a lot more if we saw literally any Huntsmen that weren't Beacon staff or Drunkie McIredeemable. My point is that if the Atlesian army hadn't been there things would've been far worse. Sure there wouldn't have been killer robots, but there also would've been a fraction of the number of blaster bolts flying at the Grimm.

The proponent that the fleet made people uneasy is irrelevant btw, considering that the breach was ultimately caused by the disgust, fear, and panic caused by the Tournament accidents. So yeah, we could've had way less people and ships on hand to ferry people down from the Vytal Collesium, resulting in dozens of deaths from the released Grimm, because the number of Huntsmen and their locations wouldn't have changed.