Thread:KNN005/@comment-25266931-20170304160915/@comment-14138255-20170314162602

The whole world being sent into panic was also essential to her and Salem's plans, and freaking out the population of Vale and Beacon as well as visitng foreigners was probably needed as well (or at the very least made it much easier), and allowed the fear and trauma they felt during that time to follow them after they've left.

Salem's been searching for the whole 6 month time skip without ever finding the relic. I doubt Cinder even knows what it looks like or what it does. Besides, it's guarded by a meat shield of future Final Fantasy cast members, it'd be pretty hard to take if an alarm is tripped and Ozpin calls everyone to help (if he even needs help, since she wouldn't have her maiden powers if she doesn't kill Amber, probably only when she's waking up).

The  Grimm got loose and wrecked havoc on the streets, and all it did was make for a lackluster season finale, they needed the huge combined numbers to be able to breach the walls, something only possible if something truly  monstrous, horrifying, and morally dubious occured (such as Mistral's ace star and Beacon student dismembering an innocent girl from Atlas, who turned out to be an AK in disguise for a weird reason as the anime equivilent of Osama bin Laden taunts the world to a stunned crowd).