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Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert7/8/2023 ![]() 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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