WARD — Defend and Protect

Ward actions respond to immediate threats: storms, equipment failures, conflicts, external dangers. These are reactive, protective actions ensuring the settlement survives to continue building. 
 Duskara-Specific Ward Examples: 
 Environmental Hazards: 
 
 Prepare for incoming superstorm predicted by weather workers 
 Respond to sudden temperature spikes threatening greenhouses 
 Rescue people caught in flash wind-shear 
 Contain fire from overheated thermal exchangers 
 Evacuate areas threatened by day-side heat creep 
 
 Infrastructure Crises: 
 
 Emergency repair of failing storm barriers mid-storm 
 Prevent aquifer contamination from surface breach 
 Restore power during critical system outage 
 Stabilize collapsing sections of linear city structure 
 Fight equipment fires in cramped quarters 
 
 Social Threats: 
 
 Prevent violent conflict between feuding factions 
 Stop hoarding of critical resources during scarcity 
 Intervene when someone's psychic abilities spiral out of control 
 Mediate before a splinter group causes permanent fracture 
 Protect vulnerable individuals from mob mentality 
 
 External Dangers: 
 
 Defend against predatory native creatures 
 Secure settlement from raiders or desperate refugees 
 Retrieve people lost in the scorched lands 
 Warn neighboring settlements of cascading hazards 
 Protect salvage operations from claim-jumpers 
 
 Ward Success Outcomes: 
 
 Failure: Loss, damage, injury, the threat succeeds; +1 Tension (potentially +2 for catastrophic failures) 
 Partial: Threat contained but at significant cost 
 Success: Danger averted with minor losses 
 Overwhelming: Threat eliminated completely, lessons learned, community strengthened; -1 Tension