Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27121579-20151117081605/@comment-4010415-20170805183930

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Because Qrow hates both the Schnee's and the Atlas military? The entirw thing was a dig at Ironwood's peoples work on robotics and to make Winter look bad since she attacked first. Pretty much. He really does seem to have something against Atlas' military, and we know from WoR: Schnee Dust Company that he has something against Jacques, but I don't know if we can say that he has a problem with Schnees in general.

It seems like he knew about Atlas trying to make a sentient robot (but may not have known that they succeeded in making Penny), and I think he had a problem with it.

In It's Brawl in the Family:

Winter: You realize you just destroyed Atlas Military property.

Qrow: (sarcastically apologizes) Oh, oh I'm sorry. See, I mistook this for some sort of... sentient garbage.

In Fall:

Ironwood: For the past few years, Atlas has been studying Aura from a more scientific standpoint; how it works, what's it made of, how it can be used. We've made... significant strides. And we believe we've found a way to capture it.

Qrow: Capture it and cram it into something else. (gestures to Pyrrha as she takes a second to realize what that means) Or in your case...

Note that Qrow says "cram it into something else" like he was talking about a different case than Pyrrha.