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XDex wrote: One thing to remember about Yang's arm is that it's not a priority. Prosthetic technologies like Mercury or Ironwood have are likely to be very expensive, and take a significant amount of time to develop for an individual, especially if it has to be used to fight. And even though she sort of "knows" Ironwood, she doesn't have much closer connection to him than any other Beacon student. Plus, he's got a war on his hands.

So if she gets a new arm, it won't be for a while. I think that when she does, it's more likely to be from Weiss convincing her familiy to pay for/develop it. Which means it will have to wait until they are reunited. We've also been told there will be Weiss-Yang conflict, and it will be the biggest yet, so I think Weiss will actually be the one to get Yang back on track. I imagine Weiss will send Taiyang's residence a note at the end of the Volume requesting they go to Atlas to get an arm (after their own quest of course). I have no idea how global communications is supposed to happen without the CCT.