I can see why that'd be helpful. ( said offhandedly, he wasn't offering to take the job. there's a lot of practical, helpful positions that just aren't upheld in Beacon. Matt didn't rule anything, and he can still notice the absence of law, order, and regulation. he misses it, a little, but organizing such a complicated system wouldn't be easy, especially if there were residents resistant to the idea. )

That's smart. It would also help us decide exactly how big our stockpile would need to be.

( if they manage to get a big enough store of items, they might not need to keep pulling until the resources were depleted. )

Which raises the question, should we plan for a month of insecurity, or longer? The ferry has run monthly since I arrived, but it doesn't hurt to have a buffer.