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Usage examples of selectors.

While we knew the real trouble had started with the selectors who had sent too many inceptors of the same, faulty lineage back to this village, we did not say so, for the selectors were not answerable to people below them in caste.

Still, some families have been selected away from the care of their home place for generations, though this speaks of negligence by the selectors, leaving the soil to impoverish itself and in need of a generation’s attention before it can be returned to health.

And thus was my fate sealed, for it was not long thereafter that the selectors told me of their decision.

No one had gone to the bureau of selectors and told lic’i a recording-campes was needed.

That is one of the reasons our selectors must be extremely careful in their choices.

The usual pattern is one of imbalance: too few people trying to do too many things,- too many undifferentiated ones selected as breeders when their dreams lie elsewhere, selectors who are, themselves, inexperienced, though at least a few experienced selectors are always provided to new colonies.

In the sixth year of settlement, an inceptor had gone rogue and killed several selectors, including all the experienced ones.

The remaining selectors were required by the rules of settlement to do so, but they did not.

In the absence of experienced mentors, the inexperienced selectors had continued doing their well-intentioned worst.

As an immediate alleviation, Vess and I took over the work of the selectors on the grounds they had failed in their duty by not summoning us sooner.

The former selectors were thus stopped at age twelve, when they had been undifferentiated.

Those few who fancied specialized caste for reasons of power or prestige and who might, therefore, harbor resentments and unfulfilled ambitions were treated as the selectors had been: memory removal and regression to age twelve.

The new selectors had been shown the ugliness and disfunctionality caused by the errors of their predecessors, and they had been supervised through selection after selection, learning that they must never, never select someone for a more specialized life simply because that person wants to try it or envies the prestige of those who do it or think it might be interesting.

In each case, T’Fees has moved in, talked the campesi into a fury, assaulted the more specialized castes, particularly selectors and athyci, and has begun training armies.

His polo career was just reaching its peak, and Centaine knew that the selectors could not afford to drop him in favour of the younger, more dashing, probably more gifted, but certainly less experienced and therefore less reliable rider.