Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.18.14.163-20180325224119/@comment-25936766-20180330184432

If Atlas falls though, a Great War would be the most unlikely thing to happen.

So far, everyone only has reasons to distrust Atlas, not any of the other Kingdoms. Atlas is the one whose army "seemingly attacked Vale while it was attacked by Grimm". Atlas is the one with the Dust embargo. Atlas is the one who doesn't let anyone in or out of it's borders.

The other Kingdoms have no reason to distrust each other. If Atlas falls, that means the only standing army on the planet also falls, so all we have left is whatever poor militia Vacuo and Mistral have, and any reasons they might have to distrust each other are too old and small to justify war.

Vale, meanwhile, has only reasons to distrust Atlas, so if Atlas falls, they have no reason to go to war with neither Vacuo nor Mistral. And that's if Vale even could - so far it's still recovering, and of course, it still would have to rely on whatever poor militia it has, plus Huntsmen.

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In fact, Atlas falling, one way or another, would push the Kingdoms into helping each other more, due to the economic and developmental consequences of it's fall.