Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-98.180.227.229-20160814045042/@comment-5430952-20160814075636

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I think it was heavily implied that she was built as an alternate to the Huntsmen. Why rely on flesh and blood and illogical people when robots can do the job for you?

I kind of doubt he had two Penny's built though. More likely she was a prototype; test her in the tournament, and if she does well they can start the production of more and start rolling them out as an alternative to Human/Faunus Huntsmen. Yes, this could've easily been Ironwood's main goal, though thanks to Cinder all his ambitions for Penny have gone up in smoke. He doesn't dare build another because he knows the people will call him on it. And if it really was his intent to replace all living Huntsmen with robots, oh man the backlash would be mighty, even more than the one he's experiencing now. Perhaps we'll find out the whole truth during Weiss' scenario in Volume 4, we'll see.