(urth) Inhumi in the Whorl

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at io.com>
> 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.

Most of the safety infrastructure might be internal. Suppose there are 
pressure sensors and airtight seals dispersed throught the maze of tunnels 
under the surface of the asteroid.  If a leak is detected, seals in the 
region surrounding it will clamp down, and the Crew can then investigate at 
their leisure (how do you fix an asteroid anyway? - they'd probably just 
leave things as they are).

They would have been more concerned about collisions than alien invaders. 
The Neighbours probably just landed on the surface, built an airtight 
chamber, and drilled down from there until they hit a tunnel..  Or they may 
have cut their way into a lander or other surface infrastructure, which 
didn't report anything amiss because its monitor's cards had been repurposed 
by the Cargo.

One does wonder why the Crew were not more concerned or knowledgeable with 
regard to the Green-Blue system - after all, one would have expected them to 
send exploration vessels to Green and Blue soon after arrival.  Probably the 
conflict between the Gods inhibited them from performing such actions, and 
after Pas was killed any external activity or exploration would have been 
prohibited by Echidna.

- Gerry Quinn