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==== In purely abstract logistics terms, yes, you can do: ====
* Forward caching with return: - Mission carries X supplies - Goes to distance d, drops some fraction, and returns on the remainder - Next mission goes further using that cache, drops another cache, returns, etc.

This is exactly how real Antarctic expeditions and polar crossings were done, except with fewer dead soldiers than Vorbis’ ruthlessness:
* set up depots
* hop from depot to depot
* sometimes teams turned back after laying caches for others.

So as a pattern, your “non-lethal Vorbis desert crossing” is solid.