Certainly, Joly would defend it to his last breath, as he had done on the barricades. There was much here that he did not understand yet, much that he suspected would be learned by hard experience only, but that did not mean he did not owe those whom he cared for his very best of efforts. Which, for the moment, involved the sorting of resources and some cataloging, so he got to that, careful to keep himself between the others and the rest of the currently known to him world. Anything else felt like it was cheating them somehow.