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Higher-level fighters are not something that you can just pick up at the corner store when you find yourself a bit short. For that reason I think he means Dust fodder.

Unless of course this "shorthandedness" is a writers ploy for us to go on a tour of the baddies of Vale while he assembles his sinister team.