Quote Originally Posted by neilpower View Post
The Mallers wouldn't pull up stakes and just attack the Arena without a new safe location to retreat back to if everything should blow up in their faces. The Colony is the first place they'll hit. Once setted in the Arena will be next to eliminate the largest known nest of creatures which will make operating in the city a little safer. After that, the Tower will be easier to take.

A random thought... What else can tankers to be used for than carrying fuel or a rolling fire bomb? Use them as modified trojan horses filled with armed men instead of fuel and drive them into the Colony with the folks on the walls thinking they're bringing them gasoline for trade. Will that happen? Probably not with my luck but I'm calling it anyways and its something underhanded that the Mallers would try.
Are fuel tankers ever really empty though? I'm not sure how transport of fuel works but surely it would be nigh-impossible to fully empty a sealed container like that? That means that merely making modifications to the tankers would be dangerous, and if they were using unmodified tankers and going through the hole at the top it would be a very slow process and the wardens (who have heat vision) would shoot them within seconds.