Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24032889-20180128082951/@comment-14909251-20180508215042

73.Anon.52 wrote:

Not really, War requires resources and assets to protect them, the only ones with the latter are Atlas, and maybe Mistral. Mistral essentially just lost all of its secondary/"on call" militia, so they pretty much only have their active duty/police forces, Vale has its forces occupied fighting an unwinnable battle, Vacuo has no reason to attempt attacking another nation assuming it could rally the forces.

Atlas also loses if it starts anything as they are suppliers of the world... pretty much it only benefits arms and bot manufacturing at the cost of all other industry. I'm not sure why you responded to that quote specifically with this response. Of course, I am aware that Atlas loses if it starts anything as that is sort of the point. A Second Great War, instigated by Salem's proxies, would ultimately bring about the fall of Atlas. Perhaps one way it could be done is to have it be part of or result in a civil war due to the tensions between Mantle and Atlas. How any of this would be brought about depends on the writers.

They could try to make it seem as if Atlas was responsible for the fall of Beacon and the events in Mistral. When this discussion was brought up previously, I pointed to Watts as potentially the key to any plots involving Atlas since he is from the Kingdom. He was apparently a prominent scientist and, while disgraced, Watts could still have some influence in the Kingdom and even influence on Ironwood. Given he describes himself as a doctor and scientist, his research may involve medical applications and this is hinted at with the suggestion of making Tyrian a new tail. Could be that Watts was involved in Ironwood's robotic attachments and thus may be a confidant of Ironwood.