(urth) Inhumi in the Whorl

[David Stockhoff]

On 2/9/2011 12:22 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 2/8/2011 6:16 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> There couldn't be series of hatches in the cooling tunnels, some open to
>> space, some less so? There couldn't be airlocks all over the place? It
>> was built by humans---it would have needed those airlocks during
>> construction. It's an asteroid.
>
> It doesn't seem in keeping with the Typhonian mindset to have no 
> guards or alarms for security and safety hazards like airlocks.
>
True, if you assume Typhon saw a primary threat from without, or any 
threat at all. But perhaps like any tyrant he focused his attention on 
the threats from within (thus his elaborate cultural control systems).

And after all the ship was to move through the void between stars. 
Anything that could reach the ship there could likely compromise it 
anyway. There's no evidence it had photon torpedos or any other 
defenses. Landers dock with it at will; for all we know this requires 
remote assistance from the Whorl's computer control systems.

Why lock the doors when you live in the middle of nowhere?


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