Let me see if I can answer this as best I can.
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Does the KFS guard trade routes outside of KFS boundaries?
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The goals of the KFS are limited to what the self serving interests of the Rich Five or their minions the 2000 desire.
If a resource or trade route outside of the KFS is important to them, then the KFS Cavalry, then the Army, then the Air Force will be used to keep it open.
Until the KFS or a Family doesn't need it anymore.
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Are you suggesting that the KFS have centralized their refineries, powerplants and factory complexes to a single (or three-four-five) location(s) for protection?
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No, the KFS appears to be salvaging and restarting infrastructure in place. They get it going where it is, if restarting it supports the goals of the Rich Five. I don't think they would bother restarting a powerplant unless that power plant was necessary for something that supported or enriched the Rich Five. Certainly not for the people or to elevate the standards of living. The poverty and the ignorance are means of control.
Unlike the Morrow Project, the Rich Five did wake up after the War. They have had presumably 150 years to consolidate power, learn from their mistakes, and cripple any competing empires or American government.
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How extensive is the road network and rail network? Do they duplicate routes, side by side, (and by how much, a little or a lot) or is it primarily a rail network feeding local road spurs into the surrounding area?
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They appear to repair the existing network. However, only so much as it would be necessary for themselves. The poor do not appear to travel at all. The trade appears to only come to the borders, then is distributed within the borders of the KFS by order and direction of the Rich Five. I would expect "Official" roads for the travel of civilians and other minimally maintained roads that are patrolled by the Cavalry.
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Do they use the rivers for trade using steamboats or tugs and barges? Does the KFS maintain clear channels (cleared of snags, sandbars, etc.) and a minimum river depth by building dams and locks on the Ohio, Cumberland, Green, and Kentucky Rivers?
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Does not appear so. They use the tugs that were there before the war or manufacture wood and steam powered versions from old plans. What is best and most capable belongs to the Rich Five, what is necessary for the State is operated by the 2000. Anything else would be salvage run by civilians or non KFS people. Anything non KFS does not appear to operate inside the KFS borders such as Rivermen, or Gypsy Truckers.
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Is this level of detail included in the B&B module?
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More in "Fallback!" than "B&B". Some of it really is plot device. The built in incompetence and backbiting within the KFS military and bureaucracy is what makes the raids and fledgling insurgency by MP personnel even plausible.
Otherwise is it 4-6 PCs possible 1-6 NPC Green Berets vs hundreds of enemy infantry, motorized infantry, and horseback cavalry, supported by artillery, close air support, with logistics tail including trucks, air drop, or steam locomotives. All on their hometurf with more than 100 years to prepare and full knowledge of who and what the MP is.