Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-25522231-20151123175530

Shadow at Morning wrote: 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.

Actually its not that obsurd think about it, Mantle breaks down, Grimm are getting in where do people go for protection? To the nearest place with military capabilities and at least a psuedo- goverment structure. that's where Atlas comes in, they didn't have to actively take over, the people fled to them. So in a sense its both a school with a country and military and a militarized country with a closely held school.