I am very glad that Cabbage Patch is back and gives us a lot of strategic insight. I started to miss marked maps and pretty amazing thoughts and commetnary on them. Really awesome.
What we have are a couple of things with the Colonists - the kind of "huge" Colony, Dunbar as a second major location, and 'between' those at least 16 (if not more) safespots. Ignoring the safespots, we have a kind of 'similar' situation like what we had with Irwin and Boulder. Were the events there a foreshadowing about what might happen to The Colony and Dunbar? I don't hope it. But it wouldn't be the first time that Kc would repeat certain "themes".
Another thing that strikes me about this local situation is that the Colonists "thin out their attention". The more locations they keep an eye on or they use for any kind of mission, the more complicated it will be to stay focussed. In #39-1 we learned that them zombs seem to be active in areas not well known to Michael's crew; and for whatever reason them zombs seem to carry around stuff - most likely with a purpose. This allows a lot of guessing and assuming that them zombs have establish a network of locations as well. Yes, true: their number of activities and encounters with the Colonists has decreased a lot. But why? Because they die, because they are tired of them Colonists, because they have started to focus on wild as well as gone wild domesticated animals? I don't think any of these things might be true; them zombs are up to something. And with the Colonists having lost focus (in the meaning of having spread their attention to too many locations at the same time) the zombs will take the advantage they create right now.
That's it for now. Later I will provide some more thoughts on #39-2 ...
Best wishes!
Liam
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