The Equinox and the Caretaker

[The Wormhole]

My guess is that some combination of Ransom, Burke, and other Equinox crewmembers tried something morally questionable, resulting in the Caretaker booting them away.

Given the Caretaker literally abducted people and conducted experiments on them, I doubt he'd have much of a moral high ground when it came to judging the Equinox crew. Besides, in the even they did do anything the Caretaker found repugnant, it's basically his fault anyway since he's the one who put them in that position to begin with.

I suspect the crime had something to do with how they treated an Ocampan refugee or something along those lines.

Kes was the only Ocampan in that solar system not living in their settlement. Pretty sure she didn't have any run-ins with the Equinox.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Given the Caretaker literally abducted people and conducted experiments on them, I doubt he'd have much of a moral high ground when it came to judging the Equinox crew. Besides, in the even they did do anything the Caretaker found repugnant, it's basically his fault anyway since he's the one who put them in that position to begin with.

Kes was the only Ocampan in that solar system not living in their settlement. Pretty sure she didn't have any run-ins with the Equinox.

Rudy runs and hides.

That's all he does.

No confrontation.

So as soon as his crew woke up and they noticed a few were missing, after being diddled to death, then unbeknowenstly left at the Ocampan hospice, Equinox set course for home at their top speed which was warp 8.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Given the Caretaker literally abducted people and conducted experiments on them, I doubt he'd have much of a moral high ground when it came to judging the Equinox crew.

No he wouldn't, but that doesn't mean the Caretaker wouldn't be a hypocrite and judge them anyway. Remember that this guy did all those deadly abductions and experiments to accomplish his own "moral" goals, so he's a pretty big hypocrite already.

Kes was the only Ocampan in that solar system not living in their settlement.

No she wasn't. It's established in Caretaker that Ocompans, plural, occasionally find their way to the surface, and captured by the Kazon.

 

[Guy Gardener]

No he wouldn't, but that doesn't mean the Caretaker wouldn't be a hypocrite and judge them anyway. Remember that this guy did all those deadly abductions and experiments to accomplish his own "moral" goals, so he's a pretty big hypocrite already.


No she wasn't. It's established in Caretaker that Ocompans, plural, occasionally find their way to the surface, and captured by the Kazon.

Huge planet.

One city with thousands of Ocampa, or thousands of cities with billions of Ocampa.

We don't know.

Ocampa was abandoned.

The Kazon planted a flag, built a refinery, a shop, became an important legitimate commercial hub, and no one told them to suck it.

So?

If a rebellious turk Ocampa finds a crack in the shield, finds their way to the surface and they are less than three days walk from the refinery, and they walk in the right direction without dying of thirst or hunger, then that turk Ocampa might become a slave of the Kazon, when it's way more likely that when an Ocampa rises to the surface, they'll find that they are thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers from the nearest refinery, depending on whether there are 10s of Kazon Cormaline refineries or 1000s of Cormaline refineries Ocampa wide, or just one.