Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26512661-20200118161649/@comment-24994749-20200123050846

ChishioKunrin wrote: I wish they made this more apparent in the show, but the City of Atlas has farms on it, so I don't think the elites would starve unless someone sabotages the farms so badly that they can't grow anything anymore. But is it self sufficient? Just because it has the means to produce food, it does not mean it produces enough to feed itself.

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Also, I saw a cool theory that Salem was bluffing and none is on their way to attack Atlas.

The long range sensors being down means Ironwood has no way to verify what's happening at the border unless he sends a recon team ( which he hasn't done and doesn't seem to plan on doing). And Salem seemed to be aware that Cinder would go for the Relic of Knowledge...

So Watts and Tyrian were there only to make Ironwood further isolated the Kingdom, leading to it collapsing on its own while Salem attacks Vacuo.