We know they were involved with the seed singing (as per the “through the eyes of Coumin” scene [TSR: 26, 432-3, The Dedicated, 302-5]), but what other roles did they have?
Ogier soldiers – also from the Coumin sequence, right at the beginning [TSR: 26, 431, The Dedicated, 302] “He could see the next field, lined the same way, beyond the soldiers with their shocklances sitting atop armored jo-cars. A hoverfly buzzed overhead in its patrol, a deadly black metal wasp containing two men. He was sixteen, and the women had decided his voice was finally deep enough to join in the seed singing.” “The soldiers fascinated him, men and Ogier, the way a colorful poisonous snake might. They _killed_.” The “men and Ogier” phrase seems to imply that there were Ogier soldiers as well as humans. (At least, it does to me.) Ogier as police or enforcers – again, from the Coumin sequence [TSR: 26, 434, The Dedicated, 304] “Abruptly something struck Coumin in the mouth and his legs buckled; he was pushing himself to his knees before he realized he was down. A hand put to his mouth came away bloody. He looked up to find an angry-faced townsman standing over him, nursing a fist
