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| 1 | 566 | View more quotes about long">Long ago, perhaps as long as forty thousand years ago, the Kurii possessed a technology far beyond what they now maintain. |
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| 1 | 563 | I put the ring down. |
| 1 | 564 | "Let me speak to you of the five rings," said Samos. |
| 1 | 565 | "This is information which I have received but recently from the Sardar, but it is based on an intelligence thousands of years old, obtained then from a delirious Kur commander, and confirmed by documents obtained in various wreckages, the most recent of which dates from some four hundred years ago. |
| 1 | 566 | Long ago, perhaps as long as forty thousand years ago, the Kurii possessed a technology far beyond what they now maintain. |
| 1 | 567 | The technology which now makes them so dangerous, and so advanced, is but the remnants of a technology mostly destroyed in their internecine struggles, those which culminated in the destruction of their world. |
| 1 | 568 | The invisibility rings were the product of a great Kur scientist, one we may refer to in human phonemes, for our convenience, as Prasdak of the Cliff of Karrash. |
| 1 | 569 | He was a secretive craftsman and, before he died, he destroyed his plans and papers. |