(urth) vanished people=Hieros

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/10/2011 4:28 PM, entonio at gmail.com wrote:
> No dia 2011/11/10, às 18:45, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> 
> escreveu:
>
>> On 11/10/2011 6:18 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
>>> David Stockhoff wrote (09-11-2011 19:55):
>>>> When I had first read SS, this theory drove me crazy. Why would 
>>>> Typhon have
>>>> sent the Whorl to Urth?
>>>
>>> One thing that may be being overlooked is that the Whorl goes on in 
>>> its voyage after colonising Blue/Green. So it is not the case that 
>>> the Whorl was meant to colonise one particular system. So it is not 
>>> the case that that system 'must' be this or that.
>>
>>
>> That's right. Of course, its first target must have been set on Urth, 
>> whether it changed or not.
>
> But notice the crew seem to be about the most technically advanced 
> humans left and to know to make decisions by themselves.

Except that they do what Mainframe tells them. Sciathan is quite clear 
on this point.