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I suggested to Sarm that satellites would be less expensive to maintain in flight but he denied this. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #72)

"No one is ever injured by a transportation disk," he told me, "except an occasional Mul". At my request Sarm took me to the Scanning Room, whence the surface of Gor is kept under selective surveillance by the Priest-Kings. Patterns of small ships, not satellites, invisible from the ground and remotely controlled, carry the lenses and receptors which beam information to the Sardar. I suggested to Sarm that satellites would be less expensive to maintain in flight but he denied this. I would not have made this suggestion at a later time but then I did not understand the Priest-Kings' utilization of gravity. "The reason for observation within the atmosphere," said Sarm, "is that it is simpler to get more definition in the signal because of greater proximity to its source. To get comparable definition in an extra-atmospheric surveillance device would require more refined equipment". - (Priest-Kings of Gor)