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"We shall tear the claws from their paws. They, suitably chained, will be used as beasts of burden". The great plan of the Others, of the Kurii of the steel worlds, their most profound and brilliant probe of the defenses of priest-kings, had failed. Native Kurii, bred from ships' survivors over centuries, would not, it seemed, if limited to the primitive weapons permitted men, be capable of conquering Gor, isolating the priest-kings in the Sardar, until they could be destroyed, or, alternatively, perhaps be used to lure the priest-kings into a position where they would be forced to embrace unwelcome extremities, perhaps betraying their own weapons laws, arming men, which would be dangerous, or utilizing their own significant technology, thereby, perhaps, revealing the nature, location and extent of their power, information that might then be exploited at a later date by the strategists of the steel worlds. The plan had been brilliant, though careless of the value, if any, placed on Kur life. I supposed native Kurii did not command the respect of the educated, trained Kurii of the ships. They were regarded, perhaps, as a different, lesser, or inferior breed, expendable in the stratagems of their betters. - (Marauders of Gor, Chapter )