Board Thread:Anime/@comment-27321453-20180722183806/@comment-26495049-20180725173510

I've never really thought too much about this part of the story (maybe because it's relatively early on), but it seems as if there's some disconnect regarding the motivations of the government.

If they wanted Eren and Historia, couldn't they have simply ordered the military to hand them over immediately after the Battle of Trost? I think the reason why they waited as because it wasn't very urgent at the time, but it was both the assault on Stohess and the Wall Rose Invasion that drove them to action.