Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20151226171120/@comment-26397825-20151227005636

I'm interested in the tidbit about the CCTs being dependant on each other, because there's a virus in Beacons.

The virus might be used to shut down the Beacon CCT at a critical moment sometime in the future, which means all CCTs would be down, allowing Cinder and Co to do as they wish without having to worry about backup being called from the other Kingdoms. Sure, the other Kingdoms might send some troops or technicians to find out what's going on, but it wouldn't be straight away and they wouldn't be prepared for whatever Cinder has planned.

They'd be going in blind, late because they'd wait a bit to see if Vale gets the Beacon CCT up and running again, and most likely underprepared for whatever will happen, which means they won't be able to provide sufficient support to Beacon and Cinder will have a higher chance of completing her end goal.