and what if. baron led the group of bandits that atlas hired to clean out old haven. rolling out the welcome mat, just so thankful to them for opening the prisons and giving him his army. of course he’ll help them clear the town. find the key. open the vault. it’ll be his pleasure.

and then steele butchers them all regardless. establishing the new hierarchy on pandora.

whatever power baron got from being warden or being a flynt becomes null the second atlas moves in. him being the “leader of pandora” is only allowed because it placates the masses and does not outwardly intervene with their plans for the vault.

and that is why steele makes him a figurehead, parodying the role he originally played for dahl, only this time he doesnt benefit from the power he got from subjugating his own people. its karma in the vilest sense, and it is still not him suffering the most from it, but the rest of pandora’s citizens.