The Drone brought back a package you never ordered this morning. Compressed Cookies, Canned Luncheon Meat, plus a stack of Sheet Metal and Wire, with a note pressed underneath: [Heard you're holding the fort. This batch is on me.] It's from those trading posts you've been running routes with. The network you've built up through all these delivery runs is starting to pay you back now.

Another Drone returned, its cargo hold even fuller than when you sent it out. Self-heating meals, beef jerky, plus large bundles of Wire and sheets of door and window repair materials—hard to say which trading post started it, but everyone's sending stuff your way. In this siege, the barter network is proving more resilient than you imagined.

During the tightest days of the siege, the drones ran their busiest routes. This batch of goods was piled up at the door: self-heating hotpots, sausages, and a thick stack of materials for fixing doors and windows, packed to the brim. The note still carried the same message: "It's on me." You're not just defending your own warehouse—you're protecting this entire, functioning network.