Ship Kurii vs Native Kurii

Ship Kurii vs Native Kurii

I sighed.  Some years ago Imnak had seen a Kur north of Torvaldsland.  It had probably been a young beast, an offspring of ship Kurii, stranded long ago on Gor. Such animals are found occasionally, usually in remote areas.

 But it was not an ice beast,” he said. I did not understand him.

“It was not white,” he said.

“Oh,” I said.  “are there such beasts in the north?”

“Yes,” he said, “here and there, on the ice.” 

These too, I assumed would be native Kurii, the survivors of stranded ship Kurii, perhaps crashed, brought down or marooned generations ago.  There were different races of Kurii, I knew, though from my point of view there did not seem much point in discriminating among them.  It was speculated that it had been fratricidal wards among such various forms of Kur which had resulted in the destruction of their native world. (Beasts of Gor)

 

 

“It is to your advantage that there be native Kurii,” I said.

“Of course,” he said, “yet they are seldom useful allies.  They lapse too swiftly into barbarism.” He lowered the bone with which he was picking his teeth and threw it, and the remains of the lart, to the side of the room.  He then took a soft, white cloth from a drawer in the table on which the translator reposed, and wiped his paws.

“Civilization is fragile,” he said.  (Beasts of Gor)

 

 

Its lips drew back, this time in a snarl.  It bared its fangs.  I saw that it was considering killing me.  But it would be obedient to its orders, if the situation would permit it.  It was not what it seemed, a simple ice beast.  It was a ship Kur, once bound by the discipline of the steel worlds, the pledges of crews and the necessary rigors of strict report lines.  Unless I forced it to do so, it would not kill me until the time and place mandated in its instructions.  (Beasts of Gor)

 

 

 

The major probe of Kurii, the organization of native Kurii by ship Kurii, had taken place recently.  It had failed.  It had been stopped in Torvaldsland. Ship Kurii, still, then, did not know the extent to which the power of Priest-Kings remained crippled.  (Tribesmen of Gor)

 

These beasts, over the centuries grown numerous and strong, might now be directed by the Kurii of the steel worlds.  Doubtless they had been in contact with them.  I expected the speaker himself was of the steel ships painfully taught Gorean.  The Kurii native to Gor, or which had been permitted to survive and settle on Gor, would surely not be likely to have this facility.  They and men seldom met, save to kill one another.  (Marauders of Gor)

 

I supposed native Kurii did not command the respect of the eduated, trained Kurii of the ships.  They were regarded, perhaps, as a different lesser, or inferior breed, expendable in the strategems of their betters.  (Marauders of Gor)