As thin as conventional forces were stretched, the unconventional assets such as Task Team Rocquette, Tom’s Provisional SR Battalion, were attenuated beyond reason. Given their defensive mission and the unreliability of transport between their defended locations, Tom had split his assets as evenly as he could, but the penny-packet approach worried him. Each site was important enough to merit the Special Options Special Resources could provide, but detaching support to each of the defended sites left him with only two response teams, one lacking a mage.