Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190112144055/@comment-4141313-20190115141250

MetallicArcher wrote: BlizzardDragon wrote: Reading some of these posts..... why is it so hard for people to remember that they 'can't just call Atlas? 'The CCT is down, meaning intercontinental communication is impossible. If it wasn't, then they could have easily just called Ironwood and avoided this whole bruhaha in the first place. Except without intercontinental communication, the only way they'd be able to do so would be by ''letter. ''Which the series has hammered into our heads as an extremely unreliable means of communication, said by both Ruby in Volume 4 and Qrow in this very Volume.

Cordovin more than likely can't get in touch with Ironwood.

And the border comment of Ironwood's was more than likely meant to refer to people who try to access Atlas via Solitas. What the protags are doing is trying to access Atlas directly through Argus, rather than take a ship to Solitas and trek across the tundra. Atlas is only the capital afterall, as there is still Mantle on Solitas.