Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16502426-20140525052751/@comment-24891101-20140525080024

Counterpoint:

"We can’t just wait with lives at stake

Until they think we’re ready"

Assuming, quite reasonably, that Ruby holds these views, and the we is Ruby, RWBY, and possibly a subset of the student body of Beacon (I'm expecting an inspiring speech on her part), with the possiblity of some others (Sun's team springs to mind), the implication is that they are NOT being deployed to combat yet, in any official capacity. Since they're at a school, the most immediate authority figure who could withhold them is the administration, personified in Ozpin, suggesting he is not irrationally furthering a vendetta by throwing college students into war.

Nay, it is a larger thing at work! It is the thought that passes through every soldier's mind: "How valuable is my life to my political masters, who decree that I go die and fight for their aggrandizement, their agenda, with which I may disagree?"

If I may, for one moment, don an (additional, this is the madhouse) tin-foil hat, I propose a far vaster conspiracy, involving the Hunters, various nefarious criminal elements, the Creatures of Grimm, and whoever all of those answer to.

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Ozpin definitely has an agenda, and he's not alone, and more than his own fair share of personal interest in Rose and Fall. "Queen has pawns", remember?