"Some of them reject the Torc and will die, in general, but Elizabeth and Marc know techniques that may help, and lead the Tanu to operancy, something the Firvulag already enjoy."
"It is our way Elizabeth the only way we know how could we turn away from even this simulacrum of operancy once knowing it could you?"
"In my own world, latent humans have attained operancy when certain psychobarriers were overcome through sublimation of the will to the cosmic Unity."