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Glitchee123z wrote: Honestly, I just hope he doesn’t succeed and dies in the process.

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I should stop crying for his death now.

There might be way to do that without screwing everyone else over. I have an alternative in these steps.

1.) Find Oscar, kill Cinder, capture Neo. Eliminate the threat within. Also kill Tyrian and Watts. You cannot let them fall back to Salem, and they’re all too dangerous.

2.) Complete the Mantle evac, and in the same instance ask the last question to the Relic. Pick your words carefully.

3.) Send the Relic of Knowledge to an evacuated Mantle, along with a detachment of military personnel including Ironwood. The goal is to bait Salem into wasting her time. There’s no way known that Salem would know the Relic is now useless for 100 years, and knowledge is power.

4.) Atlas and Amity get out of there, all civilians and important characters on them. Amity is launched.

5.) Inform the world of Salem and what Ironwood did to give them all a chance.

Of course, that’s assuming everything went right, which it won’t, but the goal is to deny Salem of as much as possible and give the world time to rally. You get your Ironwood death, but he goes out like Leonidas. Civvies are saved and Atlas students, protagonists and some military live to fight another day.