For the "tribunal," I say I approve of the canal.
...Hm.
I'm gonna be honest: I see the next major raiding target of the saurians being Ashkar's newly settled villages and shoreline towns. People just settling new territory over the course of a century have got to be tempting targets for raiders. And it's been established that ships were sent out to explore the eastern region as a whole...
@ZB1996, I'm gonna shoot you a PM some time so we can discuss and prepare for that in the next century. I'm assuming a lot of the commoners that became soldiers in this century don't have the same fighting traditions of the old warrior caste, and I'm assuming their chief experience is fighting other edimmu in land battles.