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  • He was concerned about the ancillary pump.
  • The contract specified that they would provide the computer and all ancillary software and services.
  • This was an ancillary benefit he'd hoped for from the project.†   (source)
  • You know that each of your ancillary segments is entirely capable of having its own identity.†   (source)
  • She didn't mean because I was an ancillary.†   (source)
  • "I don't think anyone here thinks of you as an ancillary," said Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat.†   (source)
  • I wondered from the start if you were an ancillary, but I don't see much in the way of implants.†   (source)
  • As an ancillary I wasn't supposed to touch temple offerings, or make them myself.†   (source)
  • They had probably never any of them met an ancillary and didn't know how dangerous I could be.†   (source)
  • I saw an ancillary follow its captain into a crowded tea shop, and wondered which ship it was.†   (source)
  • Ancillary, I thought, but there was no way to be sure.†   (source)
  • "No, I don't want to be dead, but it seems like a lot of work just to revive an ancillary."†   (source)
  • Glad of my expressionless ancillary's voice.†   (source)
  • Human bodies to make into ancillaries weren't exactly a scarce resource.†   (source)
  • I like my soldiers, but I miss having ancillaries.†   (source)
  • Ancillaries can stay in suspension indefinitely.†   (source)
  • As I still had ancillaries, I could be in more than one place at a time.†   (source)
  • As though making those ancillaries was not an atrocity in itself.†   (source)
  • They can't stay frozen for centuries, the way ancillaries sometimes do.†   (source)
  • Justice of Toren's holds will be full of ancillaries for the next million years.†   (source)
  • "I have ancillaries," Lieutenant Awn pointed out.†   (source)
  • The system governor was making ancillaries—you needed them for your war with yourself, didn't you.†   (source)
  • And that only if you ignored what ancillaries were to begin with.†   (source)
  • But you wouldn't have to keep ancillaries in order, would you?"†   (source)
  • "You still had your ancillaries," said Mercy of Kalr.†   (source)
  • As did, I am fairly certain, the beginnings of the move to replace ancillaries with human soldiers.†   (source)
  • They approve of your ancillaries and disapprove of your antecedents.†   (source)
  • She and what Var ancillaries she had serving her had taken my engines, and breached the heat shield.†   (source)
  • Someone decided to set up a base and stockpile ancillaries and …. and what?†   (source)
  • Ancillaries were notorious for their expressionless faces.†   (source)
  • "You don't have that with ancillaries," said someone, possibly another captain behind me.†   (source)
  • And that ancillaries are far more efficient for that purpose than human soldiers.†   (source)
  • And the Radch had used ancillaries long before Anaander Mianaai had made herself into what she was.†   (source)
  • I doubt you're looking forward to losing your ancillaries."†   (source)
  • Perhaps the absolute unresponsiveness of my ancillaries made the feeling seem distant and unreal.†   (source)
  • Annexations and ancillaries, and people like me being assigned to the military.†   (source)
  • At the time, "I" meant Justice of Toren, the whole ship and all its ancillaries.†   (source)
  • My thousands of ancillaries in frozen suspension.†   (source)
  • When I imagined it, the moment that Mercy of Sarrse soldier had chosen to defy her orders, I saw her as a segment of an ancillary unit.†   (source)
  • Ancillary units hadn't needed leaders.†   (source)
  • The three Garseddai electors she was carrying had killed two of her lieutenants, and twelve of Sword of Nathtas's ancillary segments.†   (source)
  • Station hadn't detected my ancillary implants, all of which I had disabled and hidden as best I could.†   (source)
  • You know that each of your ancillary segments is entirely capable of having its own identity, she would say next.†   (source)
  • Any ancillary she thawed would have no memory of recent events, nothing to tell it not to obey this Mianaai.†   (source)
  • "Seivarden Vendaai," said the left-hand Mianaai, "this ancillary—and it is an ancillary—isn't human.†   (source)
  • You're the ancillary, the non-person, the piece of equipment, but to compare our actions, you loved her more than I ever did."†   (source)
  • I could be my ancillary self again.†   (source)
  • Thousands of citizens had been unjustly executed or (what was essentially the same thing) forced into service as ancillary bodies, even though the manufacture of ancillaries was no longer legal.†   (source)
  • Ships I knew who had exchanged their ancillary crews for human ones had said their experience of emotion had changed, though this didn't seem quite like the data they had shown me.†   (source)
  • But she'd conveniently forgotten that Mercy of Sarrse One Amaat One—human, not an ancillary—would also have been "jumped up" by her definition, was part of the very change Seivarden had mentioned.†   (source)
  • Accompanying the report, a recording from Sword of Nathtas—the gun that an ancillary segment saw, irrefutably, but that according to Sword of Nathtas's other sensors just didn't exist.†   (source)
  • I had seen no few of those confiscated weapons—not I, One Esk, but I, Justice of Toren, whose thousands of ancillary troops had been on the planet during the annexation.†   (source)
  • Now annexations are a thing of the past, ancillary troop carriers are crowded with the useless daughters of prestigious houses, who can't be assigned to anything lower."†   (source)
  • One moment an ancillary had shoved Seivarden into a suspension pod, next she'd found herself freezing and choking as the pod's fluids exited through her mouth and nose, drained away, and she found herself in the sick bay of a patrol ship.†   (source)
  • So when the annexation of Shis'urna was officially complete, most of Justice of Toren Esk went back to the ship, but Lieutenant Awn stayed, and I stayed with her as the twenty-ancillary unit Justice of Toren One Esk.†   (source)
  • If the pilot had been an ancillary I wouldn't have hesitated to kill her, but as it was I shot her in the leg and let Seivarden and the two dock inspectors who'd come to do the manual undock for me drag her onto the station.†   (source)
  • Besides, even if ancillaries don't beat people, or take bribes, or rape, or shoot people out of pique—those people human troops shot …. a hundred years ago they'd have been stored in suspension for future use as ancillary segments.†   (source)
  • Ancillary units that only ever woke for annexations often wore nothing but a force shield generated by an implant in each body, rank on rank of featureless soldiers that might have been poured from mercury.†   (source)
  • Ancillary?†   (source)
  • I was an ancillary.†   (source)
  • A Garseddai elector, against all expectations surrounded by the gleaming silver of Radchaai-style armor that only the ancillary's eyes could see, firing the gun, the bullet piercing the ancillary's armor, killing the segment, and, with its eyes gone, the gun and armor flickering back into nonexistence.†   (source)
  • Human, not an ancillary.†   (source)
  • It doesn't make sense to have ancillaries out of the holds doing work when there are human soldiers who could do it."†   (source)
  • You hear stories about ancillaries, and it seems like the most awful thing, the most viscerally appalling thing the Radchaai have done.†   (source)
  • People nowadays are squeamish about ancillaries, but you don't see ancillaries drunk and puking on the concourse."†   (source)
  • If we'd stuck to so-called impartial aptitudes testing, if we'd executed more people, if we still made ancillaries …."†   (source)
  • "It's true," Skaaiat continued, "that you don't have to pay ancillaries, and they never have personal problems.†   (source)
  • But it seems to me it's less wasteful to store ancillaries than it is to train and pay humans and rotate them in and out of storage."†   (source)
  • The reforms—getting rid of ancillaries, stopping the annexations, opening up assignments to lower houses, she did all of that.†   (source)
  • I told her that lieutenants on ships with ancillaries tended to be from old, high-ranking families with lots of money and clients.†   (source)
  • People like Captain Vel love pointing out the atrocities that human troops have committed, that ancillaries never would.†   (source)
  • I had obeyed her orders, of course, and she had never abused any ancillaries, never harmed any of my segments (as the occasional officer did).†   (source)
  • Arguing that ancillaries are efficient and convenient is not, to me, a point in favor of using ancillaries.†   (source)
  • And your estimate of the typical percentage of annexed populations who were made into ancillaries is excessive.†   (source)
  • I had never lost the knowledge of my ancillaries, twenty-bodied One Amaat, One Toren, One Etrepa, One Bo, and Two Esk, hands and feet for serving those officers, voices to speak to them.†   (source)
  • "A lot of things you don't have with ancillaries," said someone else, a comment that might be taken two ways, but I was fairly sure I knew which way was meant.†   (source)
  • The captain of Mercy of Sarrse ordered her soldiers to take captive any humans that seemed suitable for use as ancillaries, and kill the rest, along with all the aliens.†   (source)
  • "Tell me"—I almost said Tell me, Lieutenant, but caught myself in time—"Tell me, Inspector Supervisor, what happens to the people waiting to be made into ancillaries?"†   (source)
  • Thousands of citizens had been unjustly executed or (what was essentially the same thing) forced into service as ancillary bodies, even though the manufacture of ancillaries was no longer legal.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of thousands of ancillaries slept in my holds, and they would likely be removed within the next few years, either stored or destroyed, never waking again.†   (source)
  • Besides, even if ancillaries don't beat people, or take bribes, or rape, or shoot people out of pique—those people human troops shot …. a hundred years ago they'd have been stored in suspension for future use as ancillary segments.†   (source)
  • I told Seivarden as much as I knew about the soldiers from Mercy of Sarrse who boarded the unknown ship with orders to take it and kill anyone aboard who resisted, or who obviously couldn't be made into ancillaries.†   (source)
  • She knew, everyone in this line knew, that they would either be stored for future use as ancillaries—like the ancillaries of mine that stood before them even now, identities gone, bodies appendages to a Radchaai warship—or else they would be disposed of.†   (source)
  • Ancillaries won't do that.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, you do command ancillaries and not vulgar human troops, which the old-fashioned deplore just as much as they deplore the scions of obscure, nobody houses getting assigned as officers.†   (source)
  • To noncitizens, who only ever see Radchaai in melodramatic entertainments, who know nothing of the Radch besides ancillaries and annexations and what they think of as brainwashing, such an order might be appalling, but hardly surprising.†   (source)
  • Ancillaries drank water.†   (source)
  • Although I did not deal with Bilbo at any great length, I learned from my ancillary research (and rather to my surprise, given the truly despicable public image he projected in the 1940s) that he, too, fitted into this classically paradoxical mold; Bilbo in much the same way as the others had commenced with enlightened principles, and indeed like the others, I discovered, had as a public servant produced reforms and contributions that had greatly advanced the common weal.†   (source)
  • — Such comparatively trivial matters as the remaining details of the credo, the techniques of worship, and devices of episcopal organization (which have so absorbed the interest of Occidental theologians that they are today seriously discussed as the principal questions of religion), are merely pedantic snares, unless kept ancillary to the major teaching.†   (source)
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