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them only that they had a mental treatment which would make it
impossible to develop great weapons. They did not tell them how it was
done, or what the commands were. And they asked them to prepare their
people to accept treatment.
And because they feared and hated the great war so much, many agreed
to accept the treatment. Some accepted because their leaders told them
to; other septs voted, and accepted because a majority agreed. But five
septs refused the treatment. They voted, and most of their members said
they should not accept. They said that while they abhorred* the great
weapons, they did not trust anything which tampered with the mind and
would make them less able in any way.
The rulers then discussed whether they should force the treatment on
those five septs. But they could not bring themselves to do that, because
they had at least some respect for different Ways. On the other hand,
they could not make up their minds, at first, on what else to do. So for the
time being, the five septs were kept locked up, totally apart from everyone
else, and the rest of the people were treated-even the rulers. Even the
mentechs. And by so doing they denied themselves the satisfactions of
playing or working at science. In fact, there appears to have been some
loss of the willingness to question authority on anything.
What that meant was that they became less willing to decide each for
himself, and thus tended more than before to follow orders and usual ways
in directing their lives.
Soon after that, something happened that helped the rulers make up their
minds about the five septs. They were by then far outside the garthid
sector, and they found a planet where people could live. It was not a
planet where any of them would want to live, for it was too hot there for the
people of that time, and the gravity* was stronger than they were used to.
But people might survive there. And because the conditions seemed so
severe, it was considered that anyone living there would never be able to
make great weapons. So they put three of the five septs there, with certain
animals and the seeds of certain plants, which they thought might also be
able to live there.
That planet was Tyss, our home, and those three septs were our
ancestors. And here we have lived for a very long time. Now we think the
heat natural, and no more than proper, and the gravity seems just right.
Then the ships went on.
In far later times we learned what happened to the rest of the people. After
Tyss, they found other planets on which people could live. Rather soon
they found another that was too hot except in a northern region, and they
put there the other two septs that had refused the treatment. And after
looking at several more planets, they found one which they liked very
much. They called it Iryala, and made it their home.
In time they became very numerous on Iryala, and sent ships out to select
other planets where some of them could go to live. Some people on Iryala
wanted to follow ways that were not welcome there, and some wanted to
adventure, and some, wanting to acquire wealth* and power,* thought it
would be easier to do so elsewhere. After thousands of years, they
peopled many worlds in this region of space. But Iryala held to itself alone
the right to have manufactories to make spaceships, so Iryala was