Talk:Breach/@comment-24772070-20161207220133/@comment-4010415-20161209030405

And Cinder made the best of this breach happening earlier than planned.

1. Mercury and Emerald handed Roman over to Ironwood's troops. Because of this, Roman was imprisoned on one of the large airships, which means he was already in there when the time came to infect a ship with the Black Queen virus and turn the robots against the good guys. It was much easier for them to only need Neo to infiltrate the ship and ambush the troops by disguising herself as one of them. Roman was a known criminal, evidenced by the Vale news showing his mugshot way back in volume 1.

2. Mercury, Emerald, and Cinder fighting the Grimm reinforced the idea that they were good guys, so no one would suspect them of being nefarious ne'er-do-wells.

3. Cinder was able to accuse Ozpin of trying to get everyone to forget about his failure to protect Vale (she was talking about Breach) by having one of his students win the tournament. Such accusations got people riled up, and anger only attracts the Grimm even more.

4. The Vale council and Atlas council talked to each other and decided to put Ironwood in charge of the Vytal Festival's security after Breach happened, thinking that Ironwood would do a better job at protecting Vale due to how he wanted to take action instead of sitting back and observing like Ozpin wanted. This meant that Ironwood's robots were everywhere. There were even shots where there were robots present on the festival grounds and in the colosseum's audience stands before the attack happened.

So, even though this happened earlier than Cinder wanted it to, it did actually work out in her favor.