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Too, Priest-Kings would not be likely to entrust Kurii with a sophisticated technological apparatus unfamiliar to them which might be dangerous or difficult for them to control and manipulate. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 50, Sentence #134)

Then I recalled from the Nest of Priest-Kings the bleak, tiered housings of transportation disks. Where a device utilizes gravity, its fuel is always at hand. No mighty tanks of propellant need fill storage yards. Too, Priest-Kings would not be likely to entrust Kurii with a sophisticated technological apparatus unfamiliar to them which might be dangerous or difficult for them to control and manipulate. Too, I suspected that vital parts of the machinery would be sealed away from the curious, and armed in such a way that any attempt to examine them would result in the destruction of the equipment and, doubtless, the release of a quantity of lethal energy, either in radiation or explosiveness, which would destroy the prying beings who might presume to acquaint themselves with a forbidden technology. Indeed, a version of the blasting flame death itself might be linked to such an unauthorized inquiry. I was pleased to see the food and water, enough to sustain even life forms as large and voracious as Kurii. - (Rebels of Gor)