Straight to the point, Cinder has been associated with the Queen piece from chess. The virus had a picture of a queen (seems like a virus shouldn't show a picture when infecting something, but whatever...) and a mail from Qrow was named "Queen has pawns" possibly referring to Cinder aquiring accomplices (Mercury and Emerald). The queen is a powerful piece in a game of chess. It can mirror almost all of the moves of the other pieces, except for one. This piece is also very useful to hunt the queen. This piece is the knight piece. Which team had the white knight pieces? Team RWBY. I don't really know what conclusion I should draw from this, but I thought I should share this "coincidence."