Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140905003518/@comment-24994749-20140911140519

IamThorn wrote: MetallicArcher wrote: Signal is in Patch. Just like the presence of Beacon in Vale hasn't meant all Grimms around the city were wiped out (Forever Fall is literally next to the Commercial District), the presence of Signal doesn't mean all Beowolves would have been wiped out.

Here is a map showing the location of Signal.

In v1, they "didn't fly over Signal", Ruby points out at it on the distance. If it has a tower with lights like Beacon, it's possible it's visible from an airship, even from far away. When you have a school filled with hunters that were good enough to be teachers, a small island would not be too hard to wipe out,unless there areunderground tunnels that allow for grim to travel unseen from the surface... but no. If you say The Patch is on Signal, then I will take your word for it. Well, there are several things:

- It is possbile the place is less urbinised than continental Vale, with a smaller population and those less hunters keeping Grimms at bait. {Yang was at walking distance from a forest full of Grimm. You might argue it took her hours  to get to the abandoned house, but she was a little kid carrying another little kid and had been walking in the forest for a while. We might scratch that as Yang's family living particulary close to the forest, though.}

- It's possible the student body (and thus the teacher body) of Signal is smaller than that of Beacon or other Academies. {Beacon receives students from Academies from all over the kingdoms. So far, we have only seen, out of the three known teams in the first year, two students from Signal. And then a random background character calling to her mum at the CCT. I don't think Ren or Nora, or CDLR will be revealed to be from Signal because you would think Yang would have expressed familiarity with them in some form if it were so.}

- The teachers at Signal have to watch over students whose combat lever is much lower than that of those at Beacon. Students arrive at Beacon with a level that makes it expectable for them to be able to survive an excursion on their own into the Emerald Forest. But, going by Weiss word, before that they train by sparring with other students, with no contact with actual Grimms, so, odds are, the students at Signal do not actively contribute to Grimm slaying.