Teg flees with Duncan and Lucilla into the countryside.
At about the same time an attempt is made on the life of Idaho, but Teg is able to defeat it. Odrade starts training Sheeana as a Bene Gesserit. An attack is then made on Sheeana on Rakis, which is prevented by the intervention of the Bene Gesserit. Teg manages to turn the tables on the Matres, and rescues the Mother Superior and her party. The Honored Matres insist Taraza invite Teg to the ship, hoping to gain control of the ghola project. However, Lucilla must deal with Reverend Mother Schwangyu, head of the ghola project but also the leader of a faction within the Bene Gesserit who feel the gholas are a danger.Ībove the planet Gammu (formerly known as Giedi Prime), Taraza is captured and held hostage by the Honored Matres aboard an Ixian no-ship. Bene Gesserit Imprinter Lucilla is also sent by Taraza to bind Idaho's loyalty to the Sisterhood with her sexual talents. Odrade is a loose cannon she does not obey normal Bene Gesserit prohibitions about love, and is also Teg's biological daughter.
Taraza also sends Reverend Mother Darwi Odrade to take command of the Bene Gesserit keep on Rakis. The Bene Gesserit leader, Mother Superior Taraza, brings Miles Teg to guard the new Idaho. The Tleilaxu have altered the ghola to bring its physical reflexes up to modern standards.
The Bene Gesserit intends to use a Tleilaxu-provided Duncan Idaho ghola to gain control of this sandrider, and the religious forces of humanity who they know will ultimately worship her. On Rakis, a girl called Sheeana has been discovered who can control the giant worms. The most powerful of these forces are the Honored Matres, a violent society of women bred and trained for combat and the sexual control of men. However, people from the Scattering are returning with their own peculiar powers. With Leto II's death, a very complex economic system built on spice collapsed, resulting in trillions of people leaving known space in the great Scattering.Ī new civilization has risen, with three dominant powers: the Ixians, whose no-ships are capable of piloting between the stars and are invisible to outside detection the Bene Tleilax, who have learned to manufacture spice in their axlotl tanks and have created a new breed of Face Dancers and the Bene Gesserit, a matriarchal order of subtle political manipulators who possess superhuman abilities. Sandworms have reappeared on Arrakis (now called Rakis), each containing a fragment of the God Emperor's consciousness, and have renewed the flow of the all-important spice melange to the galaxy. Much has changed in the millennium and a half since the death of the God Emperor. This article is based largely on the Wikipedia article on Heretics of Dune.
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