The Watch

A task constantly performed by pre-fusion era Suon farmers, and the WDA, on Tebburus.

As the Tebburuan ecosystem features large megafauna creatures which can be very dangerous to farms and suons, they had to defend the farms from the ravaging megafauna. The perimeters of the farms were virtually impossible to constantly monitor due to the sheer area of land required by agriculture. As such, they would construct large watch towers which they could climb to monitor large areas of land at once. If megafauna was found, they would have to drive it away or kill it. The WDA has to assist in this task. Performed correctly, few casualties would mount but some people would have attempted to take on megafauna alone, usually losing their lives.

Though the Watch is not performed anymore because the suons no longer have to farm or perform agriculture, it has changed significantly with advances in technology. As technology improved, megafauna could be killed far more easily from watch towers with large mounted cannons, killing the creature from long distance rather than having to approach it. This is also a much safer option. Secondly, with the invention of the sonic cannon, the Walapi Worms have become extinct, removing the primary threat to the suon species from existence. The creation of thermal imaging technology allowed them to detect creatures from huge ranges even when camouflaged. However, it was initially performed with far less advanced Heavy Tension Quadrepetal Crossbows. This required a large number of individuals to effectively handle these massive creatures with minimal risk, especially if they were in a highly open location which they often would be, making it easy for the megafauna to see any approaching suon forces

. Many individuals would also defend farms by adding large traps which no normal suon would be able heavy enough to activate. These traps often had to be large and thus expensive, but could be reset after killing its target. These traps sometimes looked like large metal objects which would immobilise the megafauna creature by capturing its leg in a large claw. Some traps would fire a large projectile at the creature, and other kinds utilised a type of poison which might kill it slowly, so that the farmers would have to find the corpse near the trap to wherever it died off. Fusion era traps usually consisted of large ultrasonic machines which would simply scare them away and almost completely automate the task of watching. At this point, farmers also had access to large railguns in case the first line of defence failed.

After a megafauna creature is killed, it will be butchered and be consumed by suons or used as fertiliser. Farmers would already have the tools necessary to move heavy loads, especially later farmers such as those in the industrial and information eras, so they could transport it to any kind of slaughterhouse.