Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-25218054-20141106165751

Follow up to my previous idea about Cinder's plan:

We all know Cinder loaded a virus into the Transmat station's communications terminals during the dance. The most common idea people have thrown around as to what it does is for that to be what she uses to seize control of the Knights. But that doesn't actually make sense; as Weiss explained to Ruby, the Transmat station specifically is for intercontinental communication. There's no reason the Knights would be designed to be controlled that way when their commander is going to be less than 2 miles away from them. The obvious reason to put a virus into a system whose only function is to provide communication to the other kingdoms is so you can CUT OFF Vale's communication with the other kingdoms.

And remember the speech Torchwick gave to the White Fang assembly that Blake and Sun were spying on? He was reving all of the Faunus up by blaming the government and military for their problems.

So combining all of my theories together, Cinder could now have the White Fang and coopted Atlesian Knights launch a surprise attack on the government & military of Vale AND the ability to shut off Vale's ability to call for help from the other kingdoms. So the only force left that we know of that could oppose an attempt by her to take over the kingdom would be... Beacon Academy. And we've seen her already composing a list of the most dangerous hunters & huntresses with their weaknesses.