# Digest whorl.v010.n015 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Sep 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *22 Sep 1999, 21:18* > From: "Greg Neyman" >> From: Redhaven1 at aol.com >> Hey, what ever happened to Sand, Hammerstone, and the rest of the >> soldiers >> when the 'Cargo' left the whorl? Was this just meant to be left >hanging, snip > three months ago, Josh Smith suggested that ... OK, by the numbers > > 1) Typhon made contact with Inhumi, while his interstellar empire was at > it's glory > > 2) agreed to send "tribute" of human cargo > > 3) WHOOPS! did he forget to tell the Inhumi of the LEGIONS of mechanical > invasion warriors he'd be sending? Must have slipped his mind :) ! > > so basically, the whole whorl was a Trojan horse ... a scheme of Typhon's > to > take over the Inhumi with an invasion force that could dominate, one that > the Inhumi wouldn't have power over ... and that's why the chems have > human > personalities .... because once the humans were devoured, they'd have to > be > in charge of the campaign > > OK, that's it for now .. Hat Hi Hat, Well remembered. But the trouble is--and you can check this out in the archives--Wolfe has explicitly denied Typhon's having prior knowledge of the nature of the inhumi and quite probably even *of* the inhumi. Variations on the idea of the cargo as "cattle" for the inhumi turned up several times when this group was younger (!). It was a pet of mine for a while, but someone, I forget who, asked him flat out about it and he denied it. -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---