(urth) Inhumi in the Whorl

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com>
>
>>>> Well, we know they travelled between planets somehow, and to the Whorl, 
>>>> and perhaps to wherever they live now.  They detected the Whorl as it 
>>>> approached their solar system, and visited it, bringing with them 
>>>> inhumi. And we know they built great structures on Green.  Why should 
>>>> we not expect them to have spaceships, or at least to be able to make 
>>>> them if needed?
>>>
>>> Because (unless someone can identity a Neighbor-ship) the only method of 
>>> travel native to this system is via inhumi.
>>> I mean, if this were a story set in Polynesia in 1550 and some chief 
>>> mentioned colonizing a great continent to the East, would we just ASSUME 
>>> they must have hidden caravels?
>>
>> If we believed him, we'd assume they had ships capable of getting there 
>> and back.  If it was clear that the canoes we know of couldn't do it, 
>> we'd guess that they had bigger ones.
>
> Or, like a good engineer, we would assume that they accomplished the task 
> with the methods at hand.
> Well, we do know that inhumi-powered dream-travel can get the Neighbors 
> between planets or to the Whorl, right?

No... we've never seen that.  In all cases of dream-travel we've seen, only 
souls have been transported.  It's not at all clear that the Neighbours 
could transfer natural-state inhumi in this fashion.

Maybe they could, but I find it easier to believe they used spaceships.

Still, what are we arguing about?  We know they got there somehow - it's 
doesn't really matter much what technology they used.

- Gerry Quinn