Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140829002738/@comment-25154376-20140831233338

Why would Beacon even offer degrees? You go there for one thing and one thing only: to become a Hunter. Nobody's going to the Beacon School of Density XD. And I was under the impression that Hunters were not under the sovereignty of an nation; it's kind of their point, be completely apolitical so that you can effectively deal with the Grimm threat and not get caught up in political affairs. Although, I think it'd be cool if they explored what happens when the Hunters do become a political force.

We are talking about Ironwood in charge of Beacon because a previous poster asked; and it's not impossible for Ironwood to do so when he's got a battalions of troops at its gates. If he wanted to take Beacon over he could and I doubt Vale would interfere, they can barely deal with their own insurgents let alone Remnant's equivalent to the 'Murica.

It'd actually be quite easy for Ironwood to justify it, too. If they are meant to be apolitical, all he'd need to do is provide proof of them doing otherwise (RWBY kinda broke that rule already in regards to the White Fang, didn't they?), then it's just a matter of manufacturing an incident during the Vytal festival where it looks like the Hunters attacked Atlesian troops or visitors of the Vytal festival or even linked them to the WF; there, now he can claim the Hunters are corrupt and must be dealt with, then it's just a matter of mopping up trouble makers and then Ironwood controls the Hunters.