User blog comment:FortunePayback/Penny's Faction/@comment-3146930-20140611200731

Just going by the picture, for me they look like a type of military operation within a company; possibly even the Schnee Dust Company itself. The reason I say this is:
 * 1) The soldier like people all dressed in white with the big guns. At first glance they just look like regular soldiers, however I noticed something when zooming into the picture. All the joints and most of the areas in black look very mechanical, implying that they are all a series of robots right off an assembly line. This would also explain why they all look exactly alike. They also have a slight resemblance to the robots seen in the Black Trailer.
 * 2) Next is the two guys in red and blue, who appear human. Aside from the pistols on their belts, they appear to lack any weapon. However their suits are clearly more advanced and it is possible that their role is to cordinate the robots. The robots on the train in the Black Trailer were easily defeated, probably because they have simple programming installed. These two would control a smaller group of them, making them more deadly because they have a human brain behind their actions.
 * 3) The biggest color used in the picture is white, the same color that Weiss is dressed in. The Schnee Dust Company also has a snowflake as their logo; snow is usually white. The train in the Black Trailer had robots on board to protect Dust from the Schnee Dust company. All this suggests that the big guy in the middle is Weiss' father. He has some grey hair so he is obviously old enough to be a father and appears rather serious, fitting in with how Weiss describes him. He also has a reason to have his own police force.
 * 4) The two "people" on the left of the picture. They appear very robotic and may be the first attempts to create an artificial human, with Penny coming later. I say this because they have no expression, as if they have no will of their own. Penny, being the more advanced model or possibly being part human, has free will and would much rather make friends; something she can't do with the people she is with in this picture. This is also shown by Penny's outfit being much different from everyone else's, possibly because she modified it herself (notice her outfit is mostly the same color as the others, but with a few changes here and there). PS: This may also fit into my idea of Penny being based on Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, as Sally makes outfits either for herself or a Santa outfit for Jack.