Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191102162031/@comment-14909251-20191119225503

73.Anon.52 wrote: especially since that was the point of those you were trying to counter... IRL precedent was literally only brought up because Sentry started to say it was insane to assume Atlas could be stupid enough, which is silly to say when our own political institutions can do it. As I said, I can't think of something quite the same. Ironwood being both head of Atlas Academy and the Atlesian military is not that outlandish, but the council is presumably like a legislature. Someone having two seats on a legislature, especially if it is fairly small in membership, is unusual. The only thing I can think is that, as originally conceived, the head of the military and head of Atlas Academy were separate with separate leadership. Each had a council position by default. When the center of power shifted to Atlas, the two consolidated along with the leadership, but they never changed whatever legal requirements existed for both leaders to have a seat. Given what WoR suggests, I don't think this was a pleasant and welcome transition and probably involved some resistance that likely has continued to the present day of Remnant like we are seeing this Volume.