Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-15049228-20130810113845

Y'know, as I think about RWBY's timeline, I noticed something kinda strange.

In episode one, with the Intro, they said that essentially war broke out between Man and the Grim, assumed first war. It never said how long it lasted, or when it ended, or even when it began.

In episode two, Jaune says his Great Great Great grandfather used it in "The War". If this was referencing the war between the Grim and Man, the first one, then wouldn't that mean that humanity is only, maybe 200 years old?

That also brings up the issue of how fast technolgy developed, for if in those 200 years they invented firearms, airships, VTOLs, explosives, cities, schools, etc,  then that's an incredible growth rate. Of course that's also a disadvantage in the fact that the entire world relies on dust, and that if someone were to cripple those supplies, fighting becomes extremely difficult. Like Mass Effect. If the Reapers had indeed targeted Element Zero Shipments and Supplies, the Economy in general would be thrown into chaos.

Of course, I assume that in the first episode's intro when they say, " These forces clashed, and it seemed the darkness was intent on returning man's brief existence to the void."  that humanity only existed for a few decades, but what do you guys think?  