The Absence of Military Structure

Notably absent from Duskaran society is a military establishment. There are no standing armies, no hierarchical command structures organized for inter-settlement warfare, no weapons designed for human combat, no professional soldiers. The tools and training that exist are organized entirely around responding to environmental and fauna threats or rare criminal activity.

The philosophical understanding is clear: warfare between settlements breaks cooperation and threatens everyone's survival. The institutional mechanisms exist to manage tensions peacefully. The armed forces that might theoretically be available for warfare are instead trained exclusively for community safety. A settlement that attempted to use its emergency response teams for conquest would be immediately ostracized by the Accord, cut off from trade, and isolated into collapse.

This absence of military structure is not idealism but pragmatism: on Duskara, warfare is simply irrational.