The Coalition Border
There is no wall, no fortified line of demarkation that states unequivocally that one has entered the territory of the Coalition. Rather, there is territory that the Coalition makes an effort to maintain power upon, and beyond this there is not.
Localized Phenomena
The commander of every military outpost has his own ways of demonstrating and establishing control of the areas they oversee. But here are some of the most universally accepted methods:
- Employing wilderness scouts to be the eyes and ears of a centralized military reaction force.
- Send skelebot kill squads across the countryside with a well-defined threat library.
- Post signs stating that the Coalition States excercise their power here, usually by showing the Skull logo of the Coalition States and pictures of the well-recognized coalition "dead boy."
- Display defeated threats prominantly to send an unambiguous message to other potential threats.
- Cutting down swaths of trees for well-travelled sky cycle and SAMAS patrol routes.
History
The Coalition States establish military outposes around their settlements. These outposts send out patrols hunting and chasing threats away, making the area around them safer. The settlements grow and attract people from the surrounding areas. The outposts themselves form centers of gravity for more settlements, and so they establish their own outposts.
The process has repeated itself over the past half-century creating vast territories. Each is known as a state in the coalition of states. At the center of each state is its original settlement, now a monolithic city. At the farthest reaches is the limit of projected power. This limit is the "border."
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