Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140912002450/@comment-24198837-20140915005613

Shadow at Morning wrote: I disagree. They're all kitted and uniformed the same way, so they're all Atlesian military. Yeah, I can see it. If this is the case, and to add to the current debate - for whatever side you're on - Ironwood has reasons for putting guards at the CCT.

If you think he's working with Cinder, then he put them there to distance himself from her; She would attack his men, he's give a speech about how it was an act of terror, etc. and no one would suspect a thing.

If they're not working together, the guards are there because he suspected something would happen, and the CCT would be hit. He knows someone's working against him and Atlas, with the whole stolen-mechs-wrecking-the-town thing, and he's a general - he has to be good at tactics if nothing else. A ball, with everyone busy, is the perfect time to preform an infiltration mission, he knows that, and is trying to counter it.

Later, we see Red guys meeting up with Orange ones outside the CCT, and more chasing Cinder. If Ironwood didn't give an order, where did the Red guys come from? They didn't just appear.