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"But suppose," said Kurik, "that it was discovered that the lovelier world was not as innocent and vulnerable as had been conjectured. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 34, Sentence #111)

But suppose then the remnants of the destroyed world discovered new worlds, one lovely, as lovely as was their former world, and another, one seemingly engaged in the same dismal, menacing process of climbing to the same harrowing, technological summit, polluted with the same territorialities and hatreds that had led to the destruction of their former world. Either of these new worlds might be suitable for conquest, and colonization, obviously, but surely the lovelier world might be preferred". "Doubtless," I said. "But suppose," said Kurik, "that it was discovered that the lovelier world was not as innocent and vulnerable as had been conjectured. Suppose, rather, it was the world of a considerably different form of life, a mysterious, powerful form of life, about which we know little, that within its caves and dens, so to speak, quiescent until aroused, armed and wary, lurked beasts between whose paws worlds might be crushed". "I am afraid," I said. "These latter beasts," he said, "of which I conjecture, are much like gods, content unto themselves, with little interest in the politics and vicissitudes of mundane matters, and certainly not those of other species. - (Plunder of Gor)