Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-24891101-20151115190016

Ironwood is seemingly head of Atlas SOCOM. Makes sense, given his simultaneous oversight of a school (given the comments on the political situation in Atlas), the Penny project, control over expeditionary forces, oversight of Specialists, and interest in counterterrorism. He's also a late addition to the inner circle. Fascinating.

Winter is approximately a pole-assed martinet. Don't think anyone is surprised. And just because she's a Specialist doesn't mean she can't also be an heiress, goddammit.

Qrow is in fact an alcoholic. And not too fond of Ironwood.

The purpose of Black Queen was to compromise communications. Apparently they found and exploited a vulnerability in the military-grade security protocols on Atlesian scrolls. Not impossible, really. And if that's tied into the C² system, well, shit's fucked. Far more plausible a thing than hacking the C² system directly. Better to simply hijack credentials. Ironwood might take the fall for this. The manipulation of the whole tournament system is also strange.

My theory on this is that since we've seen the people use scrolls for ID, the virus is attaching itself to scrolls when they link to the CCT, and then using the ID functionality to infect otherwise-secure networks. Becaue that is a massive security vulnerability I'm a bit surprised that I didn't see before.

Who or what is Autumn? I'm inclined to think person, given the motif which we've already discussed.