Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-24891101-20151123170230

I mentioned this above in passing, but I will reiterate, because all of you are putting the cart before the horse.

All of you are assuming that Atlas the academy took over the remains of the nation and renamed it. This is probably wrong. It is far more likely that after Mantle lost the war, the new government renamed the nation to Atlas, but maintained a close hold over its academy, naming it after the country.

You're thinking that Atlas is a school with a country and a military. That's absurd. Rather, it's a militarized nation with a too-closely held school.

Consider the CCT, which Weiss says was Atlas' gift after the war, and thus presumably fairly soon after. A single academy does not have the resources to do that. Nor does it have the ability to effectively absorb the remnants of a nation, let alone consolidate power quickly enough to become as militant as it is.