Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-24994749-20140618122946

Well, my new theory is that Qrow, Summer Cinder and Roman (the Roman part comes from this other idea ).

Summer died during a Beowolf attack by a large pack of the creatures, similar numbers go the once seen during the Red Trailer, maybe? Basically, Team QSCR? on a mission?, training exercise? at some town near the Snowy Forest when the pack of Beowolf was reported approaching and they were maybe the only hunters close enough to the area to hope to arrive in time to intervene?

So, Summer died but not killed by the Beowolves like Qrow would later on tell Ruby. Rather, team QSCR encountered the "Orb of Darkness" seen during the 1st opening.

When they tried to report it, they were dismissed by everyone except, perhaps, Ozpin?

This had different effects on the surviving team members: Cinder decided to go rogue; Roman decided he wasn't getting paid enough for this kind of s*** and start his own "dubious morals business" until Cinder approached him; Qrow became a teacher at Signal either to prepare future hunters better to face the danger he found/to be closer to Ozpin/both.