Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190119003858/@comment-24994749-20190124195224

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

4) Like having Weiss call Winter and see if they can get a ride there legally. Winter is in Atlas. They can't call her. There are only local comms.

The only way to legally enter Atlas from Mistral is through Argus.

Qrow did take the precaution of sending a letter to Atlas ahead of them taking the train. We don't know what became of that letter.

You know who do should have a relatively reliable method to contact Atlas? Cordovin.

Because her job includes notifying the Council of people requesting access to Atlas and letting them through if the request is approved.

Also, I doubt the Argus base, specially under the current socio-political situation, is allowed to operate completely autonomous from the rest of the Atlas military. So they should be sending in periodical status reports.

Without the CCT, that is presumably done via military air-mail, which should have chances of success above normal mail. And, given the importance of the base and what a lack of timely reports would imply, if contact is lost for a extended period of time, Atlas will send someone to check things out.

So, what did Cordovin do when a huntsman and several huntsmen-in-training accompanied by an old woman in need of medical attention that can only be provided by Atlas knocked on her door? Did she tell them, "I will file in your request but you have to wait X amount of time for a reply from the Council"? No. She slammed the door closed on them.

On this same subject, unless she has some kind of special order to let Atlesian citizens through unchecked, which we have heard nothing off, then letting Weiss through like she was doing was against her orders.