It means that Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang had actually heroically arrested the only pro-union character in the entire series (on account of him being a Pure Evil Violent Terrorist, just like ALL the social activists in Remnant tend to be for some reason) BEFORE they were so horrified at the thought of a State-of-Emergency order forcing billionaires to provide critical supplies during a massively deadly city-wide threat that they committed treason for it (before Ironwood turned into a Pure Evil Violent Terrorist like everyone that came before him)
Because nothing says "Progressivism" quite like having a bunch of Rich White Cops squash unions and run profit-check missions for Billionaire Capitalist Daddy Schnee before staging a coup because they draw the line at lockdowns and embargoes and regulations /s
The fact that Rooster Teeth is itself an anti-union capitalist corporation based in Texas has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it, of course /s
EDIT: I now realize you meant your question more literally, as in "does it mess up the timeline"
Apparently Arrowfell takes place during the V7 montage where they have a couple minutes of undefined "mission" stuff for an unspecified amount of time
So yeah as far as I can tell, the timeline is still:
Fall of Beacon happens in autumn (Ruby says it's autumn when Winter shows up the day before the Fall)
RNJR leaves that winter (end of V3)
Six months later, they arrive at Haven in summertime (I believe it was Kerry who said six months, and also it's summer time)
About a month later the Fall of Haven happens (Leo still says that it's the summer break the day before the Fall)
Two weeks after that, the kids board the train to Argus (Qrow says it's been two weeks in his letter at the start of V6)
A couple days later, the team gets on the airship and crosses the border into Atlas (they only stayed with the Arc-Cottas for a couple days)
Twelve months after that, they land in Atlas (since two years have "gone by" since V1 but the rest was all accounted for, so this is the only place the lost year could go)
They squash the union leader during the montage
And the rest is history xD
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