[@Lovejoy] My understanding was the workshop was in a greater metalworks, since it would be something many people could benefit from, instead of just the one.  Seems singularly wasteful to create a full set of tools and so on for each individual that wants to use them, but perhaps that's not an issue?

Does bootcamp handle children, or do they start with teens?  Because starting with children and forming units means that you're far more likely to have the adolescent phase split them up, instead of having adolescents forming their new bonds as fledgling adults with the desired group of people.

But then, I think you said warbands aren't formed until a couple years in?  So that might help a bit, instead of at nine.

I had figured it sorta like college dorms, with freedom restricted (not allowed out of the warband's compound outside of whatever hours, most of your hours are assigned to a given area) but that there are times, on a daily basis, when they're out and about.  It'd be harder to bond with people outside their warbands , and certainly combat training would cement those ties.  But it's not only those people and teachers save for the once-a-week outing which has no time for socialization.

Especially if teachers go across multiple warbands -- and it does seem some do, especially the infirmary folks.

I'd figured rigid schedules, and there's the people you're always with, but you have knowledge of and contact with the other groups informally during, say, a couple hours' free time when you have individual work to do, be it practice or written assignments, but also time to socialize a little.  Work in a specific area -- be it library stuff, metalworks, infirmary, any of the things that feel like they'd have a single facility instead of a bunch of smaller ones with more limited resources, would allow exposure to other groups and other staff.  Any sort of pull out class for a specific skill would be cross-band as well.  So Rodion might have his work area in a section of the metalworks, and he probably has some tools that are just his, and it might even be divided off into a bunch of cubicles, but certain things he will need to do in the main area and will need to share certain machinery with other people before taking stuff back to his space.  It's simpler to have some small number of gymnasiums and shooting ranges and cycle groups through them at different times than give each one a separate one.  That's sorta what I saw.

No idea if that even works.  ^.^;;

If nothing else, it raises questions why Marcus was bothering Phoenix people while they were on cleaning detail in their own compound.  I'd figured that was a seminary chapel.