Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-24891101-20151122224924

It is not clear, actually. The wording can be taken as saying that Mantle (after the regime was replaced) collapsed for other reasons sometime after the establishment of the academies and the end of the war, and Atlas the academy stepped in and stabilized it.

I prefer mine, which has some degree of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" going on. Some hints of Operation Paperclip, too.