Spoiler alert for the RWBY Volume 9 bonus ending animatic.
Okay, ready?
First, I'll admit, I skipped around in this because I didn't care that much about it and only wanted to know the important bits. It was mostly about what happened in Vacuo while RWBY and Jaune were gone.
Vacuo isn't taking too kindly to the refugees from Atlas, that was expected. The world doesn't revolve around Atlas, constant Grimm attacks, yada yada. Anyway, here's the big highlights I took from this.
So apparently Vale was destroyed off-screen by Salem while team RWBY and Jaune were hanging out in the Ever After. Professor Port and Doctor Oobleck brought the refugees to Vacuo, which was already having social problems with the Atlas refugees with a lot of Vacuans wanting the refugees to leave Vacuo, imagine how they will act towards the Vale refugees. Why Vacuo and not Mistral, I do not know.
There was something about Oscar and Ozpin fighting their merging and also something about Vacuo's history with being colonized made their record keeping on antiquity non-existent. I wonder if that would have been important later.
Oh, did I mention how Ruby became a religious figure? Okay, I'm exaggerating but apparently her image was being plastered all over Vacuo with the words "Remember Her Message" like she was some kind of prophet.
What message? The one saying that there's a crazy immortal lady trying to kill everyone? Did I miss something? Oh, maybe it was her thing about coming together in the face of that unkillable threat? Okay, answered my own question. Lol
Not a big fan of some of the decisions here, but hey, what are you gonna do? It's not like Rooster Teeth had time to refine this stuff. Maybe if Volume 10 happened and the company didn't die, maybe the details would have been refined and Vale's fall would have been more cinematic or something.