Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14640999-20140724024429/@comment-933831-20140808125643

First off, massive plot induced incompetance on the truck thing. Ruby could shrug off a hit like that with absolute ease. Roman's grenade shots mulch up concrete like nothing, and Ruby took that directly to the face and was basically knocked down with no ill effects.

Second, Aura is REALLY REALLY good. Remember how she sliced those aircrafts out of the air like butter? The people those lasers hit inside came out alive. Because aura. In addition, most of the RWBY characters are fast enough that they're not going to get into that situation. You're REALLY downplaying the speed here. Penny I'd give Mach 20 based solely on scaling up to the setting. There are plenty of characters with double that.