Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
Considering the sheer size of it, they'd probably have to send a rather sizable fleet to tow it all the way back to a castrum capable of servicing it. Especially if it can't stay in the air at all on its own. And that entire fleet would have to pass over hostile territory, not to mention the various horrors in Azys Lla itself. The logistics are a nightmare. So they just strand a small force of conscripts up there to keep the savages out and otherwise ignore it.
If Garlemald was willing to get a senior engineer (re: the Scared Sylla FATE) with a token escort, it would be likely that any attempt at extracting the 6th be protracted since they would need to get only a handful of people out at each time because a smaller airship (the size of the Enterprise or similar) wouldn't attract the attention of the Alliance the way a fleet large enough to tow the Gration would.