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This seemed no fitting support facility, no adequate housing, for a device as large and sophisticated as that I sought. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 50, Sentence #129)

I was reminded of the denlike apartments I had encountered on a far world, a steel world, save that there was here, in the recesses, a shallow cistern and, on a wall to the left, as one would enter, a number of slabs of meat, fastened on hooks. I had somehow expected a variety of pipings, a number of vessels, glassware in the form of beakers, cylinders, and retorts, racks of complex equipment, conduits, valves, and tanks of sorts, things more to be expected in a laboratory or workshop. My first reaction was one of disappointment, and consternation. This seemed no fitting support facility, no adequate housing, for a device as large and sophisticated as that I sought. Had I been so wrong? There seemed no hanger here, or cage, large enough for the enormous, mechanical beast of prey I wished to find, and feared to find. Then I recalled from the Nest of Priest-Kings the bleak, tiered housings of transportation disks. Where a device utilizes gravity, its fuel is always at hand. - (Rebels of Gor)