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But in the morning the advancing forces of Lord Yamada had discovered only the debris and ashes of a deserted camp. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #72)

Haruki had now, perhaps gratefully, distanced himself from me, and my doubtless prying, unwelcome questions. There was much that I did not understand, not merely locally, but about the very strife in which I had somehow become a participant. Long ago, on a dark night on a remote beach, the remaining land forces of Lord Temmu, defeated and routed, confronted with superior force on one side, the victorious warriors and Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, and roiling Thassa on the other, awaited their last battle, in which they would be driven into the sea. But in the morning the advancing forces of Lord Yamada had discovered only the debris and ashes of a deserted camp. Shortly thereafter the Goreans of the continental coast, particularly that in the vicinity of Brundisium, found strangers in their midst, Pani, these survivors of the major land forces of Lord Temmu. These Pani, as I had determined, were as unclear as to the nature of their arrival on a foreign shore, as were those amongst whom they had found themselves. It was obvious, given the technologies involved in such a suspension of consciousness and such a methodology of transition that either the Priest-Kings or the Kurii, or both, had chosen to intervene in what might otherwise have been regarded as little more than a final battle in a minor war in a far place, but why would they have done so? It was my surmise, based largely on intelligences more suspected than delivered in Tarncamp, that the matter had to do with the contest for Gor, or its surface, long waged by Priest-Kings and Kurii, a contest in which an acquisitive and aggressive species sought conquest and victory, and an ensconced species was content to satisfy itself with little more than the defense and protection of its world. - (Rebels of Gor)