Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20161018164833/@comment-14138255-20161020013138

I wonder if Penny's father is one of those kinds of inventors that inadvertently cause the near apocalypse and the way RWBY is going, that very well might happen. One day Atlas is on the brink of war with the world, the next day a general is dead and a robot is going on a rampage in the capital, causing the Grimm to finish off Mantle, and suddenly a kingdom is gone.

Another note, I have a feeling Atlas might be involved in Mistral as humanitarian peacekeeping (Cinder makes comments at Mistral's "undesirable situation." Perhaps she was referring to Mistral's crime and squalor, which Atlas isn't able to help).