mark, you wrote here that the col. intended the following:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">He has left a couple of his men and women behind at every pod that had wounded and dead: triage and burial servitors.  He intends to round them all up sometime the next day, with proper materials (i.e. stretchers) to transport the wounded.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>However, Linco has already established that the wounded were brought along, not left behind.  He had said it twice in post.<br/><br/>And, no Linco is not crazy.  He is pragmatic and yet an idealist.  For him, the greater good is what matters in some things (feeding the children over the life of the animals).  He mourned to death of the lovely creatures, but feeding children and the weaker colonists would come first for him.  Yet, he is an idealist, if he was a total pragmatic, he would accept that the stronger would eat before the weaker so that the hunters would continue to hunt.  But, as he has shown, who decides what is considered strength.  Other may have baulked at killing the creatures allowing their loveliness sway them, not Linc.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 1.35em;">and three pods full of people with quite a few wounded, up a beach in the heat and humidity in the evening with a storm coming. If they were in danger, why not send the ablest runners to their current location, and have them all meet up at a safe location planned by the Colonel?</span></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Also, are they not marching away from the CACC?  ( This is the way it appears in the post.)Why  would the Col. not send all survivors with armed sentries to the CACC immediately, not drag them on a forced march to find other survivors.  Even if his intentions are good, his logic is questionable.<br/><br/><br/>As far as shelter, their best defense is to use resources from the island to escape detection.  Metal will be seen and easily scanned.  Their best bet?   To find a cave system for shelter and not rely on the wreckage of their old lives.  So moving them for one night.... meh.