Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25936766-20170820043030/@comment-26397825-20170822001951

Yes, yes. Mantle and Mistral were the people in the war, notAtlas and Mistral.

And granted, the SDC itself didn't exist as a company until after the war, but that means nothing when you consider Nicholas Schnee was the son of a miner. Mantle had people dedicated exclusively to mining dust, while swathes of them if the speed at which they excavated and utilised dust after settling Solitus is any indication. Even if it wasn't the SDC themselves, the Schnee snowflake is synonymous with Manyle/Atlas and the Dust mining industry, letting us know exactly which Kingdom did most of the exploiting without pasting a symbol most people (sadly) would t recognise.

And that quote I took - Years of human conflict, unrestricted mining and ecological conflict - was taken from the WoR before Qrow told us about Vacuo rising up against their oppressors. And really...they kicked Mantle out because of what they'd done to their land. Do you really think they'd let a big commercial business like the SDC back in when their resources are small enough as it is?