OK, no book should have thousands of chapters for the first volume. Good job, still keep in mind, cell phones buildings, kitchens and food production requires power of some kind. Your best chapter was the old guy on the island. First thing after a disaster is road clearing and distribution support. Spend a tiny bit of time looking at after hurricane recovery. And not buying and selling little things to the Merchant but rather setting up supply lines or getting friends to go that. Army's succeed or fail based on a vigorous supply line. Look at the Crusades, the finally ended when a Sultan salted all the fields on the path from Europe to Jerusalem. Thanks for a tidy book that I was glad to spend some power stones on.

Nice story. Good characters. And I am seeing this well after the initial writing.