《Let There be Darkness》中的设定的收集（1）(17)

（Zarrian是某种强大的存在的棋子，Zarrian的部分技术和知识是由这些强大的存在给予的，这些强大的存在给予了Zarrian时间旅行的技术。）
5. "I told you this was only the beginning." Pitts's face was hard and grim. "The Zarr are learning the secrets of time as well as of space, and will soon be extending their conquests along that dimension, also. Yes, the human race has just about reached its end -- but there are still many thousands of years of human history to attend to!"

“我告诉过你这只是开始。” 皮茨的脸色严峻而严峻。“Zarr 正在学习时间和空间的秘密，并且很快也会沿着那个维度扩展他们的征服。是的，人类种族即将走到尽头——但仍有数千年的历史人类历史值得关注！”
（Zarrian在掌握了时间旅行的技术后，将会沿着这个宇宙的时间线进行他们的征服。）
6. It seemed miraculous to Taggart that he had been one of the two humans chosen by the Zarr to represent his own kind. The fact that all the representatives of every race had been male (where sexuality was a factor) was less miraculous. Taggart knew that the Zarr, during their two million years of recorded history, had reduced the females of their originally bisexual species to mere gastroid organisms kept alive in their laboratories by artificial means, to be used as necessary to keep the race in existence. Since each Zarrian had a life-span of nearly two thousand years, and could command a great number of artificial metal subordinates, biological reproduction was at a minimum, and the population of living entities governing an entire galactic empire was only slightly larger than the human population of Earth. Moreover, variation of personal characteristics was at a minimum among members of the Zarrian race, so that it was hard for Taggart to distinguish individuals; this undoubtedly made for great efficiency in the attainment of the unquestioned Zarrian goals -- conquest, and the never-ending expansion of the empire of the Zarr throughout limitless space. Evidently all softer impulses -- if any such had ever existed in the Zarrian race -- had long ago been subordinated to the desire for universal dominion and the expansion of their power. . . .