Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.59.184-20140809221526/@comment-24891101-20160102020855

Ironwood is by no means the head of state of Atlas. He's in charge of Atlas Academy and has deep ties to their special forces and advanced projects communities, and is involved in that chain of command in some fashion, but he's not remotely in charge. He's got a chain of command he answers to. He's just one of dozens of generals, if a very prominent one.