 Why does Matt feel the need to warn people about the Chingsi?
Illustrated by Schoenherr The wind howled out of the northwest, blind with snow and barbed with ice crystals. Matt Hennessy, from Farside Observatory, back of the Moon, just back from a proving flight cum astronomical survey in the starship Whale . Walking, talking natives on a blue sky planet with 1.1 g gravity and a twenty per cent oxygen atmosphere at fifteen p.s.i. We were able to show them our sun, in their telescopes. "One, they learned our language in four weeks. When I say they, I mean a ten-man team of them. People who talk English, drink beer, like jokes and beat me at chess or table-tennis are people for my money, even if they look like tigers in trousers.
 Matt is convinced the Chingsi are bad luck.
 Matt is convinced the Chingsi are bad luck.  Matt is convinced that Charlie deliberately destroyed the Whale.  Matt is convinced the Chingsi are evil.  Matt is convinced that Charlie deliberately destroyed the Minnow.