Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140926004722/@comment-24891101-20140926011808

Archer: Surely the oppression discussed pertained to the destruction of art and the persecution of those who produced it? Given that Atlas created the CCT seemingly as a concession in the wake of the war, my hypothesis is that they were the aggressor, which makes sense, since they're fairly militarized, and have a high population density (Shades of WWII). Then, having been defeated, a new government arises, and disowns the previous idealogy. This transition, I think, is necessary, given the ornamentation on Myrtenaster, and Weiss' musical skill, regardless of her actual performance (she'd have to learn it somewhere). Then again, someone else could have been the aggressor.

My principal reasoning for the Faunus War occuring afterward is that, given that was originally an NGO, and tensions would be at their highest immediately after the War, it seems less likely that it only now turns violent, as there would be plenty of Faunus advocating violence, and an organization with 75 years of history is much harder to remake into a terrorist organization, than a relatively young one. If it were young, and the war recent, then it could still have been run by its original founders, who only recently retired. Plus, it's the Faunus Rights Revolution, otherwise known as the Faunus War, whereas The War has only ever been referred to as that, and being a world war, would have primacy on the appellation. Circumstantial, I know.