Northern Supply Route. Fort Kael Resupply Corridor
The Northern Supply Route is the primary resupply corridor serving Fort Kael. It descends from the northern valley settlements through three mountain passes before reaching the lower depot at waypoint N-1, from which goods are distributed to the fort by secondary carriers. The route has been in institutional use since Year 312. the year of Fort Kael's establishment. The path it follows is older than the institution.
Supply parties travel in convoy. The standard convoy consists of between eight and fourteen pack animals, two route officers, and a variable number of contracted carriers from the valley settlements. Travelling approximately twenty kilometres per day on the mountain sections, a full resupply journey from the northern depot to Fort Kael takes between four and six days depending on season and conditions.
| ROUTE STATUS | Active. Year-round with seasonal restrictions above waypoint N-6 |
| LAST INSPECTION | Day 12 of Year 812. Route Officer Cassia |
| CONVOY FREQUENCY | Every fourteen days in summer. Every twenty-one days in winter. |
| KNOWN HAZARDS | Ice on northern descent November through March. Rockfall reported at waypoint N-4 following Year 810 storms. Section not yet repaired. |
| DEPOT LOCATIONS | Northern depot: waypoint N-1. Midpoint shelter: waypoint N-5. Fort Kael receiving station: waypoint N-9. |
| RESTRICTED SECTIONS | Waypoints N-7 through N-8 require Route Authority clearance. Reason: ████████. |
The route passes through four valley settlements whose communities have supplied contracted carriers to Fort Kael for generations. The relationship between the institution and these communities is governed by agreements last formally renewed in Year 798. The terms of those agreements are filed under reference ████████. Several carriers have noted that the agreements contain provisions that have never been invoked. They do not know what those provisions require.
The carriers from the Vael settlement have begun taking an alternate line through the section. a narrow path that does not appear on any institutional map. When I asked the senior carrier how long that path had been there, he said he did not know. His father had used it. His father's father had used it. The institution did not build it and the institution does not maintain it. It is simply there.
Goods transported on the Northern Supply Route include: grain stores, lamp oil, medical supplies, institutional correspondence, and periodically, materials classified under ████████ which are transported under separate escort and are not recorded in the standard convoy manifest.
The routes of Ashwana are documented. The world beneath them is not.
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