Infrastructure: Part Two Hundred and Twenty Eight

Battle gave way to aftermath and with that came the process of post battle cleanup, the most pressing part of which was dealing with the dead. Some 13,800 Infrastructural Army combat personnel were in the trenches and of those some 6,400 had been killed, a little more than half of them in close quarters by the 3,000 or so Drow warriors and Janissaries which had managed to cross no-mans-land. These were either buried or cremated in accordance with their wishes with full military honors. The process which would take a week to complete and was dragged out in part by a few hundred of the 2,600 severely wounded soldiers passed away despite the best efforts of the medics.

The fallen Drow soldiers and Janissaries were dealt with with less reverence. These were collected by soldiers, armed and given rope to deal with those who were not quite dead and with sacks to deal with those who had been blown apart. Any valuables that might have been salvaged were stripped from the dead and what remained were sewn into sacks with rocks and put on carts for the docks. Most of Daagsgrad's fishing boats were temporarily drafted into service by the Navy, which were loaded up by evening and made their way to sea by night under sail and steam ten kilometers from shore. There the sailors dropped their foul cargo into the Icemountain sea where it sank into it's sandy bed. The fishing boats were soon either returned to their owners (or at least those which had nothing to do with the uprising), who each received a hundred credits for their inconvenience. They generally did not comment on the fact that the next year's hauls of fish and especially crabs was the best in decades.

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