Castenea wrote:Gets worse, once you locate the mutineers, you need to bring overwhelming firepower to ensure their recapture (or elimination). This is likely to be equal or larger numbers in practice. Where are the Arcanans going to find a large enough force at short notice to do this type of security at short notice? For Harshu and Neshok this could be the same type of nightmare that Spartacus was for Rome.Mil-tech bard wrote:After the initial investigation at the mutiny site, Arcanian Dragon search parties would be at Ft. Ghartoum and aimed towards Sharonan bound gates.
Then the Arcanian search battalion would spread out around Ft. Ghartoum towards the best hide outs with food/water on the Ft. Ghartoum universe.
Only after those searches turned up empty would the Arcanians start searching back chain towards Hell's Gate.
If unicorns can cover 20 straight line miles an hour for 10 hours a day. That is 200 miles a day.
A week after the mutiny they are 1,400 miles from Ft. Ghartoum.
Assuming the straight line distance travel -- to stay off Dragon airways -- halves that, we are still talking 700 miles in a week.
The Arcanian search parties didn't get to Ft. Ghartoum for _several weeks_ after the munity.
NB: Barring ill luck, the search radius for an all unicorn transported Arcanian travelling party is too great for Dragons with personal locating spells to locate, given more than a two weeks head start.
In the meantime, the Sharonians are busily looping around to try to flank Harshu out of his position or trap him in it. I haven't gotten the earc yet, but it could be that Harshu will have bigger and more urgent things to deal with than mutineers...
Don
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