Hi everyone,

I just finished To sleep in a sea of Stars, and something has been bugging me about the >!plan to kill Ctein. It is said in the book that the Wranaui can't harm Ctein because they were genetically modified to be unable to harm him. For this reason, Kira and her group were the ones that were responsible to destroy the ship Ctein was on, and by extension, kill Ctein. However, while being unable to harm Ctein, Itari and the other Jellies aboard the ship of Major Tschetter (and part of the rebellious faction) were able to act in a way as to assist Kira even if their actions would result in the death of Ctein. My question is the following: Why did the Jellies aboard the ship of Major Tschetter not just prepare their ship with a casaba-howitzer and let Major Tschetter send the bomb near the sensitive spot of the ship Ctein was on ? Would that not have been way easier than having the crew of the Wallfish needing to be the ones killing Ctein ?!<