Talk:Gravity/@comment-64.121.211.129-20200117145655/@comment-27144409-20200117151559

They can fail, but it would be hard enough for Remnant to recover  from losing Atlas or Mantle. Losing both...

Pictur the USA going dark, and what that woould do the global economy and political landscape. This would be worse. Not only has communication been sparse, especially with the blockade of self-enforced isolation, but international trade has largely been hampered by the Dust embargo. Taking one of only four kingdoms off the board would be an almost certianly fatal blow to Humanity's struggle.

The losses... we can't comprehend it. Imagining America collapsing into irrelevance after most, if not all of its major cities were destroyed by enemy action, still isn't enough, because there are so many other countries, several with more terrritory and/or people. Remnant only has 4 Kindoms, and we haven't even heard of 10 proper cities for any of them.

At an estimate, we're talking roughly 25% of the world's population, quite possibly more of its industrial capacity, the only standing military, the HQ of probably the largest corporation Remnant has yet seen (along with a sizable chunk of its workforce and probably the decisive majority of its notable shareholders and  higher-ups), and so much more that I can't articulate, all being lost in a Grimm attack.

Even ignoring all the other things I just said, the demoralizing of the world would be devastating, because if Beacon can fall, and the Kingdom of Atlas can be overun with Grimm and  destroyed in one apocalyptic battle, then what chance do the other Kingdoms have? What prayer of survival do little villages have?