Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161224121458/@comment-25936766-20161227215500

Arkantos95 wrote: Hell, if he wanted to he could probably seize the SDC by force. He can, but at the same time cannot, because it would cause much controversy, not to mention amplify the amount of dominance Atlas has on the Dust market.

And unless Ironwood plans on hurting Jacques, and the Schnee name, and the SDC's public reputation by "revealing what Jacques had done to Weiss", esentially smuggling Weiss out of Atlas would raise many questions at the least.

And even if he revealed that, it would still cause questions.