(urth) Quetzal

[António Pedro Marques]

Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> From: <entonio at gmail.com>
>> Never knew how to read this. Quetzal must have known the colonists
>> would mistrut his choice after seeing him for what he was. What was he
>> trying to accomplish by selecting Green?
>
> I can think of a lot of reasons, but the simplest is that he was at the
> point of dying and not in the best situation to plan and carry out a
> tricky double-bluff.
>
> Or, in fact, he might have read the colonists - and specifically Remora
> - correctly. Remora wanted to carry on to Green. However there was a
> monitor in the sickbay and the ship over-ruled him. (I understand Wolfe
> himself pointed this out after nobody figured it out.)

There was really only two planets to go to, anyway. But it's weird. I still 
don't know whether he wanted them to go to Green or to Blue, but I'd lamost 
venture the latter. Choosing not to make a choice would give him a 50% 
chance they they went to Green; choosing Green as he did knowing he'd soon 
be busted might lower the odds (it's amazing that Remora could command 
anyone). Well, we don't even know if Horn is being truthful.

>> Also, what did he really die of?
>
> Maytera Marble said he was shot. I see no particular reason to doubt her. .

She wasn't there. She just noticed he was bloody, but when inhumi are bloody 
it isn't usually their blood. Can a shot kill an inhumu?

And Jahlee makes it more or less clear an inhumu has trouble enough getting 
to Blue, how can Quetzal have gotten to the Whorl? (I know some say the 
Neighbours sent him there, but...) Can the Whorl have been closer to Green 
in the past? Would that explain anything else?