Short Sun notes: Remora

Gerry Quinn · 04 Oct 2013, 12:22 · from 2013-October.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 13:22:56 +0100
Subject: (urth) Short Sun notes: Remora
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From: Lee Berman

> Regarding Windcloud's statement, I think we can be pretty sure the 
> Neighbors
> weren't galloping around the Whorl in their multi-limbed original form, as 
> seen
> by Horn. So I always took Windcloud's statement as being related in 
> someway to
> the mystery regarding the Inhumi on the Whorl and how they got there.

It's possible that they were in contact with elements of MainFrame.  Or that 
they lurked in the tunnels and contacted only selected individuals.

> We aren't given the details, but surely any Neighbors who got onto the 
> Whorl did
> so from Green, not Blue, meaning they were Neighbors who had already been 
> infected.
> Or intertwined (as in  trees and vines).

Where are we told that anyone becomes 'infected' by Inhumi?

As for where they launched from, it's seems reasonable to hypothesise that 
they collected immature Inhumi from Green, but I don't know why that would 
imply that they could not have come originally from Blue.  Why not just 
assume that the expedition was most likely launched from whichever planet 
had the greater industrial complex?

- Gerry Quinn

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