 Which of these is true about the Red Mask?
"As I recall," Ellason said, "there was something about stunners." We don't think anything is going to happen, but if it does, we want to get an impersonal, unprejudiced view. Basically, it was an instrument which would open distant vistas to colonization, reducing the shoulder-to-shoulder pressure of a crowded solar system. How would I know whether a red mask—or a blue or green one—does or doesn't belong on a spaceship?" To men unused to it, such a sight numbs, compresses, stultifies. He introduces a countermeasure, proof he exists, which is any overt act, sometimes violent.
 He is entirely harmless and it just looks like he's trouble
 He is entirely harmless and it just looks like he's trouble  He is a passenger looking for some entertainment  He throws the passengers' belongings overboard  He does not hesitate to use physical violence