Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191130155818/@comment-27234079-20191204205953

Phantomlink959 wrote: I don't think it will quite reach FoB levels (unless Salem shows up). The biggest reason being that they haven't already have a metaphorical bomb dropped on them.

With Beacon they had people from all over the world visiting; global communications were hijacked, a weapon disguised as a child was revealed to them, and an unknown hostile force announced their evil scheme; all in the span of a few short minutes.

Add to that months of escalating attacks from the White Fang, serial theft of Dust, and the proxmitiy to Breach shaking things up in advance.

Plus, of course, Atlesian mechs going rogue as the icing on the cake.

The Mantle riots involve less extreme inciting factors and represent an internal threat rather than a blatant terrorist action.

EDIT: another factor also comes into play; the local Grimm have already been attacking the city; being killed off in the process. Theoretially this means the population has already been culled a bit. My thoughts exactly, to me it seems like Watts is setting up one monumental distraction in Atlas to swipe the Relics under their noses.