Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-6548012-20140621171100/@comment-26505747-20140627164448

After the watching the episode, I now see:

The Fake Reason: The Fake reason is to protect that launch as to make sure that the first interaction between Earth and Mars is safeguarded or between humans and alliens since a lot of people could do something to ruin that meeting. Plus, Nightwing states that he is also doing this because after a year of running the team, he needa some "action".

The True Reason: Nightwing went in the mission as to fake Artemis death. Artemis took a pill to put herself in a coma like state, and Nightwing pretended to try to save her. In fact, she faked her death as to go undercover with Kaldur. This also proved to be the mission that allowed Kaldur to be allowed into the next level, as he "failed" to complete the mission and proved his loyalty to his father by "killing" Artemis. So the true purpose of the mission was allowing the two to infiltrate Black Manta´s organization.