IPFZ water station serving 12,000 people. Herald-protected critical infrastructure. Attacks on Grid 7-North are treated as existential threats regardless of intent.
Twelve thousand people depend on Grid 7-North's water output. The Heralds treat it accordingly — the station has a permanent protective presence, not a patrol rotation but a continuous commitment.
Factional intelligence briefings note that Grid 7-North represents a potential pressure point. Those briefings are wrong in the way that matters: they account for military response but not for what Herald collective action actually looks like when water infrastructure is threatened. The distinction is significant enough to have ended three previous operations that got close.