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Even Ibn Saran, with all his brilliance, did not, I supposed, conjecture his role as dupe in this plan, precipitating tribal warfare, thus effectively, for almost all practical purposes, closing the desert to intruders, strangers, agents either of Priest-Kings or even of alternative Kur parties. - (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #302)

The slave runs had been stopped. Doubtless key operatives, particularly those who spoke languages of Earth, had been evacuated from Gor. Others, ignorant of the horrifying strategy of interplanetary warfare, would remain. Even Ibn Saran, with all his brilliance, did not, I supposed, conjecture his role as dupe in this plan, precipitating tribal warfare, thus effectively, for almost all practical purposes, closing the desert to intruders, strangers, agents either of Priest-Kings or even of alternative Kur parties. Kurii, I suspected, were as little united as men, for they, too, are jealous, proud, territorial beasts. Gor, I understood, was to be destroyed. This would eliminate a world, but, with it, Priest-Kings, and leave Earth unsheltered, vulnerable, to the attack fleets of the steel worlds. - (Tribesmen of Gor)