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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#41151: Nov 1st 2016 at 5:40:29 PM

Yes, a broken moon, a world called Remnant and a technology based on something called Dust that is very strongly implied to have a shocking origin....

...huh, shit.

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VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#41152: Nov 1st 2016 at 5:48:05 PM

So Remnant's a planet where life grew off of a piece that broke off of the moon I'm hearing?

I kinda doubt that's it.

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#41153: Nov 1st 2016 at 5:55:08 PM

Not to mention that Dust ceases to function (at least in the way that the people of Remnant traditionally activate it) once it leaves the atmosphere (I think? The Dust thing was so long ago.), which is of course, closer to the moon.

So yeah, broken moon probably has some plot significance. What it is, exactly, is anyone's guess at this point. But hey, we got what, 12 (including this one) volumes to go or something? That's not gonna come up for a while.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#41154: Nov 1st 2016 at 6:03:00 PM

Have they actually commenting on how many volumes they intend for there to be? And how many episodes are supposed to be in this volume?

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#41155: Nov 1st 2016 at 6:21:27 PM

@Wyldchyld: It's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma that Ironwood finds himself in. If Atlas continues exporting dust, and somebody declares war over the incident in Vale, they're at a serious disadvantage. If they declare an embargo and a war fails to materialize, feeling have been hurt and little more. If they declare and embargo and the situation escalates into war, Atlas is in the best position possible.

Depending on how the probability of each outcome is determined, it's easy to come to a conclusion that Ironwood did.

edited 1st Nov '16 6:21:32 PM by CaptainCapsase

BaleFire Since: Dec, 2009
#41156: Nov 1st 2016 at 6:25:14 PM

[up][up] I don't think they've ever stated a total number, but they've mentioned that Monty Oum planned things out to at least Volume 5, and that they have additional material up to Volume 9.

edited 1st Nov '16 6:25:31 PM by BaleFire

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#41157: Nov 1st 2016 at 9:40:41 PM

I've been proposing for a while now that Remnant exists After the End and the moon was broken in some ancient conflict that is in some way related to Grimm becoming a thing and may or may not also be responsible for Dust.

Nobody in Remnant has the capabilities required to blow off a huge chunk of the moon but, like, there it is. Huge chunk blown off the moon. Someone did that. If the technology doesn't exist anywhere in recorded history, then it happened before recorded history.

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WillDeRegio Since: Jan, 2015
#41158: Nov 1st 2016 at 10:08:22 PM

Mundane Solution: wild mass guessThe moon was struck by an asteroid.wild mass guess

Addition: wild mass guessThat asteroid was comprised of frozen chunks of that black Grimm goo.wild mass guess

edited 1st Nov '16 10:13:11 PM by WillDeRegio

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#41159: Nov 1st 2016 at 10:15:07 PM

Im surprise nobody in that episode talk about the huge goliath in the room: that apparently Atlas smuggle a LIVING ROBOT who can used AURA in a TOURNAMENT.

I mean you would expect Weiss dad to ask "Really, what was that shit?" or dunno....SOMETHING, it seen important dosent it?

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#41160: Nov 1st 2016 at 10:17:47 PM

Penny is small change compared to the threat of war. The latter directly affects Schnee and his business.

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#41161: Nov 1st 2016 at 11:07:49 PM

[up]Penny is not that Small, she is a robot who can used Aura and was sneak into vital tournament, in which Cinder point out the frige logic of why Atlas would make a cyborg look like a little girl if their objective are Grimm....

And more important, Ironwood was keeping her safe and out of reach, meaning he was invold in someway, I first I thought it was Atlas experiment but now I consider the posibility of Penny maker creating him and asking James a favour(and if I think why, I would guess because it the same guy who put his bionics, saving his life for whatever accident happen to him)

Think is, that befall Ironwood, it was his responsability to look that Penny didnt get hurt ot was expose and Cinder take both think and cut into pieces, it would be a damn miracle if James got a job in something beyond security guard

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#41162: Nov 1st 2016 at 11:36:27 PM

"Penny is not that Small"

Yes she is; she's only 5'5".

The fact that Atlas had a secret robot is more important than why they had a secret robot. And since Atlas isn't telling, nobody is pushing it. They're taking the silence as an admission of guilt on Atlas' part, which is fueling the war paranoia.

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#41163: Nov 1st 2016 at 11:39:53 PM

5'5" doesn't sound that short for a girl.

Also Mr. Schnee has no reason to give a shit about Penny and it's been long enough in-universe that people probably stopped bothering to ask questions regarding her.

edited 1st Nov '16 11:44:01 PM by Karxrida

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#41164: Nov 2nd 2016 at 12:37:05 AM

So prediction; Penny 2.0 will show up at the charity event, not recognise Weiss and repel whatever bad stuff happens.

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#41165: Nov 2nd 2016 at 2:21:16 AM

[up][up]Yeah, I think that's literally the average height of an American Caucasian woman.

WillDeRegio Since: Jan, 2015
#41166: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:02:11 AM

Penny is short by the setting. The adults are freakin' tall.

That reminds me, Blake's Dad? is freakin' huge.

wild mass guessBlake's Dad? is some form of big cat faunus.wild mass guess

edited 2nd Nov '16 4:05:48 AM by WillDeRegio

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#41167: Nov 2nd 2016 at 4:13:33 AM

[up][up] then American Caucasian woman are very smol

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#41168: Nov 2nd 2016 at 6:55:30 AM

That is correct, but they can be smaller...

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#41169: Nov 2nd 2016 at 7:34:22 AM

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#41170: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:02:23 AM

Mundane Solution: wild mass guessThe moon was struck by an asteroid.wild mass guess

Addition: wild mass guessThat asteroid was comprised of frozen chunks of that black Grimm goo.wild mass guess

Not impossible, but it's one of those possibilities that sorta self-defeats, narratively speaking.

It's possible that either a meteor struck the moon and Grimm were seeded onto the Earth as a result. It's also possible that the moon itself burst and Grimm goop was inside it and rained down onto the Earth. There are ways that the moon's destruction and the Grimm can be related that do not require an After the End scenario.

But they're narratively unnecessary methods. Since the Grimm have been around for longer than recorded history, there's nothing that inherently requires them to be from space. They could just as easily be a feature of the fantasy world Remnant exists within. Tying their presence to the moon's destruction as a natural event allows for Remnant to sidestep the possibility of being an After the End scenario, but "And then suddenly the Grimm were there!" is itself a plot point that only has meaning as an After the End scenario.

So if we want to connect the Grimm to the moon's destruction, we're left with a plot point that can potentially avert an After the End reveal but that only means anything if combined with an After the End reveal.

edited 2nd Nov '16 8:03:35 AM by TobiasDrake

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#41172: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:24:15 AM

wild mass guessMaybe it's the humans who are from space, and the Grimm are basically defending their planet from an invasive species.

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#41173: Nov 2nd 2016 at 8:24:17 AM

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#41174: Nov 2nd 2016 at 11:09:38 AM

[up][up] I somehow doubt that.

I do tend to favor the theory that the Grimm are the result of some epic fuckups by Precursors, and also that Salem and Ozpin are both survivors of the Time of Myths.


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