Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-4141313-20181115003224

Alhazad2003 wrote: BlizzardDragon wrote:So you think one of them pulled an Envy? It would work either way, all it would take is a single shot combined with a declaration along the lines of "This land is ours, you can't have it!" And the bloodshed would soon commence. Such a scenario could be in danger of happening again very shortly in the story, the songs suggest that a Second Great War could be on the horizon, which would further Salem's goals immensely. Dark times lie ahead, dark times indeed. Thing is, how exactly would a Great War even work now?

Vale is all but gone after Beacon Tower fell, with no trasnport to there existing as shown by the train station in Mistral. The few huntsman still in Vale are busy trying to fight off the Grimm there like Glynda, Oobleck, and Port.

Haven may have been saved, but thanks to Leo giving a list of huntsmen to Cinder and Hazel, Mistral is down a significant amount of huntsmen, the few remaining like Dee and Dudley being barely competent (Dudley being more competant than Dee at least). Even the Haven Students have started heading else where like SSSN going to Shade.

Atlas has closed its borders due to Ironwood's paranoia, and is too holed up to deal with anything outside of its borders and possibly Argus.

The only Kingdom remotely stable is Vacuo, and even that Kingdom was basically Social Darwinism on Steroids before any trouble started.

I don't think they're at worry of a Great War, considering the only participants if there was a war would be Atlas and Vacuo, which then makes it just a War, not a Great War (Great War is analogous to World War afterall). I think they're at worry of a siege on Shade and Atlas much like on Beacon. I fear Ironwood may have no choice but to expose the existance of Salem so as to justify launching an all out war against her, especially seeing as Ozpin's "Can't Cause a Panic" strategy has proven to do jack all lately. Except doing so will play into her hands, for if she can get the Gods to return and witness most of Remnant in disarray while the remainder of it is at war with mindless beasts, Remnant gets Nuked.