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Badbru, I must apologize for not writing feedback for your ideas in my previous post. I offer the lame excuse that I needed a bit more time to digest your food slanted idea.

There are lots of good ideas in your post. I think I’ll several, though I’ll scale them back a bit. I have a couple of ideas. I may have Tokugawa own a piece of the company that supplies The Phoenix with its food items. Alternatively, I may have The Phoenix have an in-house operation that goes to all of the distributors, bypassing the usual middle men. I think it’s a good idea that Tokugawa have some idea of where the food all comes from and how much is really left at the usual distribution points when the military confiscates the lot. He could and should have an inside source at one or more of these warehouses. I also like the idea of him having some sort of connection with the drivers, who would be in a position to pass information to him.

A couple of ideas have matured a bit more. If Tokugawa becomes the chairman of the conglomerate of casinos on the Strip, and if he becomes responsible for management and defense of the Strip with his own security force, etc., then where are the boundaries drawn? I can’t help noticing that the University of Nevada at Las Vegas is also very nearby. While the students will have gone home for the long weekend, the faculty and staff are going to be local residents. They won’t be on campus when the nuclear war catches up with CONUS, but they will be nearby. The facility and the faculty represent an invaluable resource. The campus will have unoccupied dorm rooms, while greater Las Vegas will become less and less tenable. If Tokugawa can extend his security zone to include the campus, and if he can get the faculty to move into the secure zone, then he will have a gained something really important.

The Strip is also very close to McCarran IAP. This is an obvious base of operations, since it is easily defensible and basically devoid of residents. I wonder if the Las Vegas government or Clark County government or both don’t move there early in the process or if they don’t go straight to Nellis. The people stranded there when the nukes start flying will have to be moved, of course.