<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/cc/Vedaa_Quintus.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Quintus Aurelius (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aKg2wh3QkZ5_yBnuciJVdQXyZXp74qUjRsIxSoQUWfA/edit)</strong></span><br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong><br/><strong>Where:</strong>The City of Narthekhal, Saki House<br/><strong>Doing</strong>New Project<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Sophia, X, General Neate, Jane Wolf, varied attendants.<br/><br/><hr/>"My apologies, Miss Adill. I will endeavor to remember such. See you in the morning."<br/><br/>With the absence of the young one, he turns his mind back to the task at hand. Banditry, cut-and-run tactics, disable the trucks and force us to leave them behind or defend them. "Spare tires, extra fuel, lock bars for the fuel tanks, scrape plates beneath the trucks to protect the fuel tanks. Now, can we bend a band of bandits to secure the road in the name of the crown? Let them become a road guard. Break the will of the other bandits or recruit them? Offer to supply them and offer bonuses for big bad beasties that roam the desert and for keeping the roads safe? Replace their nefarious activities with one group that is sanctioned to be there and paid to do so? Insert a willing retirement age field commander to wrestle with them and whip them into shape of sorts. As long as frequent and appropriate reports are returning." He searches the faces about him.<br/><br/>"I feel you would know the best way to offer such a thing if we can get it approved." His gaze looked to the lounging highway woman. Self acknowledged criminal as she was, she probably knew the best language to use. A reminder that we were a squad sent to deal with the problem and if we failed, the military would become involved in force.<br/><br/>"If anyone tries to ambush the caravan we bait them in. Guns are mean, but take away range and we have a better chance. They will want to make a show of force, as big as our group is, if they don't, they don't have the manpower to take us and they are bluffing. If they come in numbers, then the person we are talking to is probably the leader, as he will want to show his bravery before his men. If only a few, or one, then we are talking with the mouthpiece. As far as my experience covers things. Would you assess the road bandits differently, Miss Wolf?"