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But there would be truce between the two warring houses, and enemies might live in peace, however unwillingly, glaring at one another balefully. The holdings, the palaces and fortresses, the houses and villages, were vulnerable from the air. There would be no shield against fire from the sky. Not even the high holding of Lord Temmu, citadel which had withstood a hundred sieges, over a thousand years, would be immune from foes who might companion themselves with clouds. I think few understood this ruling, other than myself, and perhaps Lord Nishida. I had little optimism, of course, even if the contest had been allowed to come to its conclusion, that a losing party would abide its outcome. It was hard to imagine Kurii ceasing to hunger for the green fields of Gor, and it was hard to imagine Priest-Kings voluntarily sharing their world, even its surface, with so aggressive, dangerous, and territorial a life form as the destroyer of a planet and the maker of steel worlds. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter )