Aqueduct Guard

A compact four-person militia formed to physically guard the colony's waterworks and plant infrastructure. They adopt disciplined, collective defensive postures—shoulder-to-shoulder in the square—signaling strong place-bound loyalty and readiness to use small arms to hold a contested resource. Their swift incapacitation by phaser fire reframes their role as local enforcers whose resistance crystallizes the episode’s moral choice between defending land and preserving lives. They operate under local leadership (Gosheven/Kentor axis) and function primarily as a tactical stopgap rather than a formal military unit.