(urth) Inhumi in the Whorl

[Jeff Wilson]

On 2/9/2011 6:26 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> 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?

In case rebels decide to use the unguarded airlocks as a way to 
circumvent the internal security measures. Or if they want to stage a 
coup, "Liberty or Death!" by threatening to vent the air into space.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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