[blue, spoilers] Intelligent inhumi and Neighbors

Alex David Groce · 30 Sep 1999, 12:10 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: (whorl) [blue, spoilers] Intelligent inhumi and Neighbors
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:10:10
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I just assumed Krait knew what was going on and was hitching a safe ride ba=
ck
home with the others--they knew who he was and he knew who they were.  The
trip back and forth is clearly dangerous, and Krait knows there will be blo=
od
aplenty for the lander crew when they get back, so he wants to ride along.

He wasn't planning on betraying the others beforehand, but when it came dow=
n to
it his loyalty to Horn did actually mean something (for reasons we can gues=
s at
but that aren't clear yet--it seems the inhumi are both more and less human
than would have appeared from Long Sun).

Also, I see what you mean saying Mucor becomes less creepy throughout Long =
Sun.
I was just stating she's not much less creepy in On Blue's Waters than she =
was
at the end of Long Sun.

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
--
Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce

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