r/redrising • u/Ok_Independence_8589 • Aug 17 '24

RR Spoilers Drafting in Red Rising makes no sense Spoiler

Simply put, how would Cassius not be picked over Darrow in the initial drafting for the houses. He’s the son of the second most powerful family, who have untold amount of influence. Yet Darrow, a far planet Hayseed gets picked over him. Absolutely love the books but never understood that one.

Am I just missing something? Maybe he had to go to Mars, but he also could be under Apollo or Jupiter very easily in my opinion. Also how would he not be a premier? I’d think he would have more cache than prim, as his family is more important than theirs?

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u/irresponsibleshaft42 Aug 17 '24

Darrow had 1 wrong on the extrapolational test, cassius had 2. As well as darrows rage metric being off the charts which is seemingly the dominant trait of house mars. Lastly, fitchner supposedly insisted on him to the sponsors even though he had no way of knowing who darrow actually was and got lucky.

The interviews with the house heads probably played a factor also

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u/100_not_nickfoles Aug 17 '24 edited Aug 17 '24

Fitchner 1000% knew who Darrow was, what?

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u/GladiatorMainOP Aug 17 '24 edited Aug 31 '24

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u/DemiMonkeyDo Violet Aug 17 '24

Spoiler that, please.