User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-1479469-20100128010238

@ Arrowtail:

8. An enclosed body of water would quickly become polluted and wipe out the population. Not to mention the problem of limited food supply.

13b. And where did the stone come from?

14. But the colony was thriving at the end of Mattimeo. How'd they get wiped out within a generation?

3. That's true, but where does the lumber come from? No mention is made of a logging/milling operation of the size which would have been necessary to provde sufficient lumber build that many ships from scrath with medieval-era technology, and aside from Blaggut, few of the corsairs have exhibited the technical skills necessary for boat construction. And that's not even going into where they'd put the drydock necessary for the actual construction of the boat, or who makes the manacles, anchor and other metallic parts of the boat.