As the millions of Faithful trek across the endless desert on their megacaravan, careful thought must be given to its impact on the surrounding environment.
- Strategically speaking, it is never a good idea to leave a trail to be followed. A team of pack animals drag heavy woven straw mats on the sandy-covered ground behind the caravan, to mask their footsteps. In their entire history, no one has ever attacked the caravan, but they don't ever want to make it easy to find and follow them. The Faithful would consider that sloppy strategy.
- The megacaravan also leaves behind a trail of feces, deposited by both the humans and their animals. This feces is a health hazard, and it creates a trail to be followed. As such, a team of engineers have been assigned the job of dealing with it.
The team calls themselves Iidarat Albraz, or "Feces Management." They follow the caravan, scopp up every bit of fecal contamination and dump it into one of a number of specialized wagons. These wagons have no roof and their interior walls are lined with mirrors. The mirrors reflect the bright, harsh sunlight, baking the feces and drying it out. The vapor rises up and escapes through the wagon's open roof. This process dries out the feces in an amazingly short space of time. The feces decreases in size by up to 75% during this process. The powdered feces is then stored in wagons until the caravan reaches an oasis, which happenes once every 10 to 20 days. At these locations, the powdered feces is buried under the sand, where it vastly enriches the soil quality and improves water retention and plant growth.
Over the years, the oases across the great desert have exploded in size and in the diversity of the life forms that exist there. This obviously benefits the Faithful, because they depend heavily upon these oases for animals, plants and water.
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