Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27312496-20170205195843/@comment-26018514-20170207202720

Nikoli the rebel wrote: If Penny's father doesn't show up in the next volume then he won't show up at all. It is hard to recconect with his plight when it was almost 2 years ago in our world. I disagree... Atlas will still be there when they get to it... besides, if he rebuilds Penny or makes a new model she could have been deployed to Mistral, but that is unlikely. The next arc will likely focus on Mistral, but the next season is unlikely to resolve the Mistral arc... either the New/old WF, the Relic, or the fortification of Mistral will be completed, maybe 2 of the three, but not all 3, and some are unlikely to conclude for a long time.

V1-3 was the Prologue, the set-up for the world stage, and was supposed to be 1-2 seasons, not 3. If Mistral falls, Vacuo is the only place besides Menagerie that can take Refugees, Atlas is closed, therefore only Winter and Weiss make sense to end the closure, and Penny's father is a military asset, and Winter's colleague... Ironwood's pet project lead scientist.

We have no indication of a time skip for this volume, and M&K have taken back the 6-8 month time-skip timeline for everyone but RNJR.