Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140926004722/@comment-25399914-20140927084708

XDex wrote: With ~40 student graduating classes, and a 35 year career, that's well over 5000 huntsmen/huntresses, before casualties. It might just be Ruby being Ruby but given her reaction to Glynda Goodwitch being a huntress they do seem a rare sight. Bare in mind both Ruby's parents and her uncle are trained hunters she doesn't seem to have met many.

Also how many hunters do you really need given 4 first year Beacon students (good ones but still first years) took out one of the most powerful war machines of the day.

Compare them to the soldiers, gangsters and police we've seen so far. Ruby still being a signal student effortlessly took out 4 and Yang took out an entire club full of them and the Twins and Junior on top.

If hunters were common place than there would be no need of police and the military.

Even if the cities were closer to the population size of New York and London ~8.5 million it still wouldn't surprise me.

Do the academies only train hunters of do they also teach historians, doctors, poets and artists. When I went to uni there were about 20 people on my course but about 4500 to 5000 people attending the uni. We had lectures with people on other courses sure but 20 ended with that degree, I had flat mates studying engineering and chemistry courses which had up to 100 people attending. But 50 people per year per course is not unrealistic.

This is a fantasy world with abilities beyond what we have only 4 nations instead of the ~200 we have, and dust instead of fossil fuels, thinking about reality and the size of a university aint gonna getch far.