Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-14138255-20151122220019

Michael.halpern.52 wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: I think Atlas might be a situation of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'

Not truly a dictatorship, simply a military operated state. The people have complete freedom, with a somewhat more militant lifestyle as a result of the culture. The government works, it keeps them safe, and they have highly advanced technology, so why try to force a shift in a system which has kept them alive and (presumably) prosperous.

The current path, becoming even more militant, might start to cause strife once again of course, but up until the present it may have been working quite well.

Or it could be what forms the basis of Cinder's motives, and what has lead the Shnee Dust company to it's grey area, after all practices an attitudes that work well in a militant culture don't neccessarily work well when applied in places that don't share the same sort of culture, it's a kind of culture that promotes a segmented class system, very easily, and when you have that, discrimination can prosper very readily. It may be working well for now, but it's cracks are starting to show. Perhaps Cinder lived through a successful Grimm invasion (either at Mountain Glenn or (a stretch) the one that happened in Mantle and, a changed woman, sought out to sow chaos and discord amongst the kingdoms to reenact the same event that ruined her life.