Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140808001942/@comment-9090085-20140808040328

Zolnir wrote: But don't you generally refer an army by its Kingdom (nation), and not its state?

That's definitely the case for a modern military, but perhaps the militaries of Remnant are arranged more like medieval Europe: where feudal lords have knights and men-at-arms who serve them, and the lords themselves serve the kingdom, bringing their armies with them(Elysian Knights, anyone?). It certainly makes sense for a world like Remnant, where the Creatures of Grimm literally hang out in the forests right outside the city limits.

By the sounds of things, Atlas is a kingdom well-known for it's android irregulars, but Elysium(?) is a fiefdom - er, city - that is really pushing for fully-robotic armies. These EK-series androids appear to have been designed as full-on replacements for human solders(note that they appear to have the same guns as the solders who chase Penny).

Also, when Ironwood mentions that their are still many situations that require a "human touch", he then shows off the Elysian Paladin, and refers to it as a "mechanized battle suit"; indirect conformation, in my mind, that the Paladin is a maned unit.

... And now I'm thinking we'll see Roman unveil the Paladin ether next episode or the episode after that. And, I'm now thinking someone in the SDC is "leaking" Paladins to the WF, given that they worked with Atlas to make them, and Weiss is checking the SDCs Dust records - that just has to be important.