Aldnoah Zero - ep16

Now with Slaine's rise to power it has caused tremors within the Maritain hierarchy. This leads to some of them taking more aggressive action to discredit Slaine position within the government. Although this leads them to a confrontation with Yuki and Marito but this also informs us on the reason why they were no longer on board the Deucalion. That once again it proves how useless the rest of the earth's armed forces are without Inaho, because even-though Yuki and Marito figure out the ability of this machine they are unable to stop it. That it was Inaho up in orbit that was able to essentially defeated it, which allowed for Marito to deal the final blow.

Then while all this is going on Slaine isn't doing nothing because he is taking action against the earth forces orbital base while the Deucalion is making it's orbital descent. Although it is truly unknown how much damage he did to the base but it was enough to get him the recognition of the rest of the Martian army. Which protects him from any future plots by the other orbital knights for the time being. Now he has mostly secured his position at the top that the only one that is really above him is Lemrina who is impersonating Asseylum. Which raises the question on how will Slaine do away with her considering he wants to because she is a threat to Asseylum but can't. While at the same time Lemrina is trying to get him to side with her but in doing so mean abandoning Asseylum. That this is another fight to look forward to other that the coming conclusion between Slaine and Inaho. In the end Asseylum is really the only thing that binds them together, that it only a matter of time before her health goes one way or another. That in this moment any number of things could happen.