User blog comment:Maimer1882/Hero or not a hero.../@comment-3146930-20110919033235/@comment-3146930-20110919231829

except the Princess Andromeda was a distraction anyway. He wanted to lure the demigods into a false sense of security so he could attack Olympus. Actually now that I think about it, if Percy and Beckendorf did manage to destroy the ship, Luke never would have told Percy that there were other challenges and Percy never would have figured out that they were heading for Olympus on foot. By the time they got there, it would have been to late.