(urth) Inhumi in the Whorl

[Roy C. Lackey]

James Wynn wrote, quoted, wrote:
> >> Is there any reference to the Neighbors having ships?
> >> If they have conventional spaceships, why did they have to wait for
> >> the Whorl to leave?
> >
> > 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.

Silkhorn believed that the Neighbors had spaceships:

"Eventually the Vanished People found some means of crossing the abyss to
Green. Perhaps they built landers of their own -- I believe that they must
have." (IGJ, 353)

-Roy