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| 52 | 11 | View more quotes about kurii">Kurii tend not to be tolerant of defeat, and feel that only the blood lines of victory should be maintained and propagated. |
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| 52 | 8 | "To be given lengths of rope, or to submit themselves to the knife". |
| 52 | 9 | As may be recalled, the defeated forces of Agamemnon, the mariners who returned in the remnants of his ruined fleet, following his catastrophic, ill-starred attack on another of the worlds, had been denied access to the habitats. |
| 52 | 10 | This was not unusual, under the circumstances, and represented common Kur practice. |
| 52 | 11 | Kurii tend not to be tolerant of defeat, and feel that only the blood lines of victory should be maintained and propagated. |
| 52 | 12 | Accordingly, the survivors of the defeat, or those amongst them who had been courageous enough to return to the world, to face the folk, and accept the consequences of their failure, had awaited their fate in a number of small camps. |
| 52 | 13 | They would be given the options of self-destruction or submission to a surgical alteration which would guarantee they would never pollute the folk by the sowing of inferior seed. |
| 52 | 14 | Many had already hung themselves in despondency and grief, unwilling to bear any longer the tarnish and stains of their dishonor. |