Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-24891101-20141031010126

Zolnir: No, I'm not. I fully understand that the invasion was but a means to an end, but I have difficulty justifying the complexity of the scheme for that gain. Unless the plan was intended to be easily-thwarted, it clearly resulted in a significantly lower percent yield. Surely a harder-to-contain emergence of Grimm would be more embarassing. Besides, it seems clear that while Ironwood has his own agenda, it does not align with Cinder's, and while she may be attempting to upset the balance of power to put him in charge, he is going to be a much greater security obstacle than Ozpin. He's going to go overboard with security, though he may be tangled in red tape, being a foreign emissary. Ozpin has his intelligence network, but Ironwood is part of it, and regardless of Ironwood's opinion of how Ozpin handled the security, they're still colleagues, and will still collaborate. The ingratiation is a side-benefit, little more. Roman is imprisoned, and I doubt Ironwood is going to be predisposed to listen to him, or accommodate him in any way.