The KFS is also setting up garrisons in new territory. That is more than boarding your troops in a hotel or taking over someones home.
I don't think the Krell are going to cooperate with the KFS. They may share a mutual enemy but, I just don't think the Krell will be making any allies. For the Krell, there is only Krell and prey.
In B&B we are seeing the KFS mobilizing for war because of a perceived internal threat and an actual one (assassination of a family member). However, just like times of old the KFS campaigns are going to grind to a halt when fall turns to winter. Roads will be to much trouble to pass, and they can lose troops to frostbite.
As for needing fortifications in the interior. They need them of course, they have a small scale insurgency in the form of the Brotherhood of Mars, and can be plagued by raids by Amerinds, Krell, or Africans that travel cross country on horse or foot avoiding the roads and water ways. This kind of state is going to have garrisons at cross roads, fords, and bridges just to monitor traffic internally.
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