Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 67 | The movements of Kurii and their allies were becoming bolder. |
| 15 | 68 | Their boldest move had begun most recently, the gathering of the gorean Kurii, the initiation of the march to the south, the incursion into lands of human habitation, the beginning of the invasion from the north. |
| 15 | 69 | This was the boldest and most fearful probe of the Kurii of the ships, directed toward humans but doubtless, in fact, a testing of the will and nature of Priest-Kings, their true foes. |
| 15 | 70 | If Priest-Kings permitted the conquest of gor, perhaps over a generation or two, by Kurii, they would have lost the security of their own base; they would become an island in the midst of a hostile sea; it would then be a matter of time until the end, until adequate weaponry could be smuggled to gor, or built upon it, to destroy them. |
| 15 | 71 | This would now be no simple matter of policing primitive weapons, crude attempts at the art of gunnery or explosives, but of protecting themselves against perfected weapons of great technological power. |
| 15 | 72 | Sooner or later, if gor fell to native Kurii, those of the ships would destroy the denizens of the Sardar. |
| 15 | 73 | Earth, too, then, would inevitably fall. |
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The movements of Kurii and their allies were becoming bolder.
Their boldest move had begun most recently, the gathering of the gorean Kurii, the initiation of the march to the south, the incursion into lands of human habitation, the beginning of the invasion from the north.
This was the boldest and most fearful probe of the Kurii of the ships, directed toward humans but doubtless, in fact, a testing of the will and nature of Priest-Kings, their true foes.
If Priest-Kings permitted the conquest of gor, perhaps over a generation or two, by Kurii, they would have lost the security of their own base; they would become an island in the midst of a hostile sea; it would then be a matter of time until the end, until adequate weaponry could be smuggled to gor, or built upon it, to destroy them.
This would now be no simple matter of policing primitive weapons, crude attempts at the art of gunnery or explosives, but of protecting themselves against perfected weapons of great technological power.
Sooner or later, if gor fell to native Kurii, those of the ships would destroy the denizens of the Sardar.
Earth, too, then, would inevitably fall.
- (Marauders of Gor, Chapter )