User blog comment:FortunePayback/Penny's Faction/@comment-3146930-20140611200731/@comment-11188061-20140612031647

1. It's a joke; I also think that they're robots. You have heard of Star Wars, right?

2. I'm the one who call him Professor, on account that he practically looks like one.

3. Again, like I say, there are at least millions of people around the world, and the Schnee does not monopolize the color White alone.

4. I'm almost certain that the Red and Blue bodyguards are higher spec than the two on the left, on account of their outfits alone. What I think of the hierachy is something like this, from lowest to highest: White Guards -> Two Left -> Red and Blue -> Professor. Penny is out of the equation because her position is unique.

5. Let me tell you about my idea. I think that Penny's Faction is a business partner of the Schnee, and they are cooperating with each other. Penny's Faction focuses on combat technology development, whereas the Schnee focuses on Dust refinery and application. They trade with each other - Penny's Faction getting top quality Dust for their research, and the Schnee getting combat technology and security droids in return.

But I wouldn't say that they're friends, although this is way too situational and early to pinpoint yet. In fact, my above statement can be totally wrong and they're sworn enemies. But let's put that aside for now.

What is the objective of Penny's Faction? They are there to prove that those who are not Hunters can have equal powers as them through technology. It is not hard to think that there are people who can never be Hunters in their life. It is also not hard to think that the current people holding the higher power and positions in Remnant are mostly Hunters.

What I think is that we're about to see a different set of prejudice here: one between normal people and the Hunters; the normal and superpowered. In a world where combat capabilities are highly valued (and although the need is diminishing with times of peace), the Hunters obviously enjoyed both privilege and power. There's nothing a normal person can do that a Hunter cannot, and if anything, the normals are like disabled people because they do not possess powers of their own (though they can hone it). More importantly, only the Hunters have the capability to combat the Grimm, and any normal people - armed with Dust or not - are going to be hardpressed to fight without training or unleashed Aura to protect them.

Therefore the normal people are biased against. Looked down upon. Never given a position too high up in the government, or valued as important. The Faunus turned away human's focus from each other, but although it is diminished the prejudice is still there.

Penny's Faction wants to change this situation. With the power of technology, they want to claim equal rights - real equal rights - for the unpowered humans and seize power back to their own hands.

They can too. Penny is the demonstration they will use to prove to the world during the Vytal Tournament. They will prove that a cyborg can be equal, if not stronger than the average Hunters, and with that fame eventually seize power into the 'common's' hands. They also have the advantage that androids, while inferior to Hunters, can be created much quicker than Hunters are trained.