Inhumi in the Whorl

David Stockhoff · 09 Feb 2011, 13:02 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:02:56 -0500
Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
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On 2/9/2011 7:41 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 2/9/2011 6:26 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> On 2/9/2011 12:22 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> On 2/8/2011 6:16 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>>> There couldn't be series of hatches in the cooling tunnels, some 
>>>> open to
>>>> space, some less so? There couldn't be airlocks all over the place? It
>>>> was built by humans---it would have needed those airlocks during
>>>> construction. It's an asteroid.
>>>
>>> It doesn't seem in keeping with the Typhonian mindset to have no
>>> guards or alarms for security and safety hazards like airlocks.
>>>
>> True, if you assume Typhon saw a primary threat from without, or any
>> threat at all. But perhaps like any tyrant he focused his attention on
>> the threats from within (thus his elaborate cultural control systems).
>>
>> And after all the ship was to move through the void between stars.
>> Anything that could reach the ship there could likely compromise it
>> anyway. There's no evidence it had photon torpedos or any other
>> defenses. Landers dock with it at will; for all we know this requires
>> remote assistance from the Whorl's computer control systems.
>>
>> Why lock the doors when you live in the middle of nowhere?
>
> In case rebels decide to use the unguarded airlocks as a way to 
> circumvent the internal security measures. Or if they want to stage a 
> coup, "Liberty or Death!" by threatening to vent the air into space.
Heinlein would approve. But in that case the internal control systems 
would already have failed and there would be nothing to protect. Who 
would the rebels threaten? Where would they get the spacesuits from?


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