Okay, so I was right... the southern edge could be considered a backside.
I was looking at the campus map the opposite way, so in talking to Arte's player, I think I'll post this up incase anyone else was looking at it wrong like I was.
The campus basically fits between that eastern bridge and the first dock to the west. If you go north across the eastern bridge, take the first road to the west, you'll be travelling along the shore to one side and the southern edge of the campus on the other. If you go north across the eastern bridge and continue forward (northwest) along the road to the second road, that marks the eastern side of the campus. If from that intersection you turn west towards the market, that would be the northern edge of campus. The western edge of campus is actually just after the two dark grey buildings, both rectangular running north/south with a little bitty brown building between them. The northern building has a metallic looking circle on top of it, whatever that's supposed to be. The two grey buildings are the chem labs.
Anyway, wow, didn't realize the place was so close to the market. They might even be getting some fire from the ships. LOL Trav wasn't kidding! That's too funny! :D
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It also causes a slight problem but... as with anything, there is always a way to work around it.
1. Maybe attacks on the market were centered on the market in the center of the market district, and not so much areas further away from the center. If we use that for our purposes here, it doesn't overrun the area.
2. Alex has launched more ships against the Abyss, which will probably take away some or most of the attacks they'd been doing on the market area.
3. Alex has also brought in his own troops not only to protect Exodian investments into RhyDin - like the jumpgate and Exodian Enterprise's stores right by it (which are located down the street from Arcanum by the western bridge) - but to protect the citizens and lend aid to their immediate safety. Which means, some of the troops are going to end up here in Arcanum. Note... Some.
Okay, so about being overrun...
1. I don't think Arcanum is as small as the picture makes it seem. A lot more people can fit there then it looks. Well, I think that would work for an excuse! ;D
2. While it probably was overrun to begin with, lending to why so many of Sha's troops have been killed so quickly, along with the powerhouse attacks thrown at them, I did state that there was a barricade being made to fend off attacks from the outside of the academy and so likely most of the men would've been stationed there as well, spreading out between the barricade to kill off anything in the area too close like a few houses away or to locations across the street from the academy and definitley thick around the eastern bridge.
anyone else have any thoughts on this?
