Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 69 | Lastly the enhancement of the beak and talons proved of View more quotes about little">little merit for two reasons. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 66 | When I had first come to Gor war tarns had often been lightly armored and the beak and talons sheathed with steel. |
| 14 | 67 | The armor, light as it was, encumbered and slowed the bird, considerably decreasing not only its speed but its maneuverability. |
| 14 | 68 | It also, in its alien aspects, tended to make the bird harder to manage. |
| 14 | 69 | Lastly the enhancement of the beak and talons proved of little merit for two reasons. |
| 14 | 70 | First, in most tarnflight, the beak and talons do not come into play, and, second, when they do come into play they are formidable weapons in themselves, as in, say, tearing at the eyes and vitals of an enemy bird, far above the ground. |
| 14 | 71 | Evolution, on whatever world might be that of the tarn's origin, had armed it well. |
| 14 | 72 | Whatever world that was, I suspected, it had been a high-gravity world, one with a deep gravity well, for the strength of the tarn was considerable, far beyond what one would normally expect of an avian creature of a more typical world, such as Earth or Gor. |
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When I had first come to Gor war tarns had often been lightly armored and the beak and talons sheathed with steel.
The armor, light as it was, encumbered and slowed the bird, considerably decreasing not only its speed but its maneuverability.
It also, in its alien aspects, tended to make the bird harder to manage.
Lastly the enhancement of the beak and talons proved of little merit for two reasons.
First, in most tarnflight, the beak and talons do not come into play, and, second, when they do come into play they are formidable weapons in themselves, as in, say, tearing at the eyes and vitals of an enemy bird, far above the ground.
Evolution, on whatever world might be that of the tarn's origin, had armed it well.
Whatever world that was, I suspected, it had been a high-gravity world, one with a deep gravity well, for the strength of the tarn was considerable, far beyond what one would normally expect of an avian creature of a more typical world, such as Earth or Gor.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)