Herbert, Brian - Dune Sequel 01 - Dune Revenant

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archaeological information, a temporal strata opened to us that has

allowed a reconstruction of what in ancient times would have been

called "history". Remember that Multiple Memories and Persona

Shifting were not common traits of our human ancestors. This

fact was among the most alarming and revolutionary of all

those made by the Spice Dreamers -- peoples' minds were once

solitary and alone.

- Sociotemprint of the Fish Speaker School Idah-Mirabla

Duinain stood alone at a podium facing a crowd that filled the

Great Hall to capacity. The hall held over a million people, which

made it the prefect meeting place for the First Millennial Celebration

of the founding of the Fish Speaker Schools, but this is not what held

Duinain's interest.

I stand before a million Individuals, but my thoughts are on

the design of this place

The design of the Great Hall of the Idah-Mirabla School was

influenced by the original Temple to St. Alia of the Knife. Although

Rakis had been destroyed some two thousand years before, the

blueprint of the temple had been saved in a ridulian crystal.

Legend says recorded by the Tyrant God Guldur himself.

Guldur must have cherished the design himself, the sweeping

bow of the thousand meter outer wall leading to the "knife", a

thousand meter spire rising above. Duinain called him by the

common name of Guldur, although, as a historian, he knew the

Tyrant God's name was actually Leto II. This thought out of time

pleased Duinain, and calmed him as he prepared to speak.

The Temple to St. Alia was chosen for size, although

several structures on various Fish Speaker worlds would have

once again to calm his nerves as the roar of the shuffling crowd

calmed in preparation for his lecture.

Harkon-Mohia; Chani-Tej, Hallac-Ouadra, even members of

Hayt-Scytl abandoned their isolationist views for these events.

Some discussions were specialized for smaller interest groups,

while several dozen speakers were to address the entire

assembly, all over the course of several standard months. The

celebrations had been going on for over a week when Duinain was

scheduled to given that days lecture to the entire assembly. The

suspensor-card read the title of his lecture as to all those who

entered the hall:

Spice Dreaming as a Technique of Historical Archaeology

Idah-Mirabla Fish Speaker School

presented by

Duinian ibn Idah7 Idah-Mirabla

Sociotemprint Archaeologist

As he began, sometime after the movements settled, gradually

entering into what for Duinain mark a lifetime achievement, His eyes

fixed upon the prizmatic colors of the Sun-Sweep Window

calendar at the far end of the hall.

I look into the pathways of light in this ancient calendar, as I take

steps to undo what we all know as Time.

The crowd of nearly a million reached an eerie silence, and

Duinain began.

“We are assembled here in reverence to the accomplishments

of that thousand years of progress historically called the Integration.

Before our ancestral schools were formed, in those ages when the

Schools are shrouded in the lost ancient histories, but a recent

historical archaeological technique, Spice Dreaming, has

uncovered keys to this lost past. In much the same way that Guild

Navigators once folded space as a means of space travel, the

Spice Dreamers have learned to fold consciousness as a means of

time travel."

“We are a people riddled by questions. How have we

acquired the variety of Schools we know today? What is our

origin? Different Schools approach this knowledge differently.

Our common mythos is open to interpretations. Tleilaxu

Originary Evo-Theory. Bene Gesserit Mytho-Geneticism. We

stand ready for an new approach to the trace of truth. I have taken

the liberty of presenting a series of Spice Dream discovered

temprints from the dawn of the Integration, and the dawn of our

very Fish Speaker Schools. Know that the seeds of the Integration

were sown out of the conflicts beginning with the merging of two

great but warring schools, the Bene Gesserit and their rivals the

Honored Matres.”

Duinain explained the details of the process of the Spice Dream.

The individual conduit ingested Synthspice to broaden the

band of consciousness. Although most Individuals possessed

Multiple Memories, and could share Personas passed on within a

School's line, the technique of a consensual vision had only

recently been discovered. The process of the Spice Dream allowed

a number of people to experience an actual historical moment by a

dilation of the fabric of consciousness. Duinain glossed over the

space-time figures, simplifying the idea as a cross between the

ability to foldspace and the techniques of Duncan’s Net. This

Spice Dreamer with the Ixian background to manage such a large

event. As Jal prepared for the trance, Duinain prepared the

assembled crowd to receive the dream.

Within moments the place and the moment began to fade from

Duinain’s thoughts, and like the mundane dreams it was named

for, the Spice Dream began to work upon his consciousness,

and the consciousness of the assembly.

We can never experience the Spice Dream of another, yet we

know they all coincide within the intents of the Spice Dreamer.

As Jal continued the process, folding consciousness, turning

back the moments both from physical and psychical evidences, the

million assembled Individual began to share the historical

hallucination, each thought woven to the fabric of the desired

target. Duinain’s last thoughts before the dream were on Jal, who

was an alphaline bred direct from Hwi Noree herself, her silhouette

cutting the light from the Sun-Sweep Window.

She is beautiful as was the consort of God.

And then they were transported.

The ghola Paul Atreides was alone in the courtyard when

Miles Teg entered. The boy looked around, quite aware that his

progress was being watched from above by perhaps Sheeana or

one of the other sisters. Paul was right of course, Sheeana and

Duncan Idaho were awaiting the practice session in order to

monitor his progress. Duncan was outraged, and he said so to

Sheeana.

“What is the purpose of all this Sheeana?”

“Don’t go there Duncan, we both know things are at work around

us that are larger than your discomfort at training Paul.”

many lives

and I_ve returned to this.

As Sheeana spoke to Duncan, and watched Paul and Miles

training below,

she realized the concept of ghola never seemed natural to a

Bene Gesserit,

even though they had manipulated genetic lines for so many

millennia; they

always allowed a natural birth from two parents. The idea of

genetics

engineering shared the disapproval that computers gained

after the

Bulterian Jihad, the technology around the field forbidden by its

edicts

included computerized biotechnology. Only the Bene Tleilax

practiced it,

and they always denied they did, while the Bene Gesserit used

conventional

breeding. But it was now the second generation of Bene

Gesserit sisters

that were comfortable with the use of Tleilaxu axlotl tanks for

custom

growing gholas. Not only had they produced their own

successful Duncan

Idaho, but they had also surpassed all when the produced a

young Miles Teg.

The next project seemed inevitable, overseen by Sheeana and

her band of

renegade sisters. The creation of a ghola unlike any ghola

project

Paul_s reactions are too slow to survive. He is a relic of a past

age.

Duncan gazed out at Paul, and sensed the strange feeling that

everything he

did was being watched by some unknown observer.

The Spice Dream receded. The assembly_s mummers grew

as they awaited

Duinain’s response. As the din of conversation rose in the Great

Hall, Jal

gave a knowing look to Duinain as she left the sceneum.

Her eyes tell me that she thinks they're pleased with

the

demonstration. But will they believe the truth's behind what

their

consciousness has just experienced, for all of our sakes.

_What we have revealed is a key the proof for once and for

all that

their truly lived a man named Paul Atreides. The evidence

before us is

obvious. Why would the memories lie? Many have claimed that

the very idea

of a Kwitash Hederach was a myth constructed by the Master

Face Dancers,

somehow interwoven within our very cellular memories. I offer

this memory

as proof that Paul Atreides did exist. Why create a twice fallen

god? The

historical Law of Least Probability demonstrates that it would

been absurd

half listened as he watched the Sun-Sweep Window and

thought of the fact

that it was a representation of all ancient calendars up until

its

creation. When the voice was finished, Duinain resumed his

findings,

letting the light paths from that grand window somehow focus and

guide him.

The lecture continued for some time. After the flood of

questions and

personal greetings, some hours later, Duinain found himself

alone in the

cloisters of his chambers. He reclined back into the chair

where he had

done most of his research. A historian of that era that

produced the

Integration, Duinain infrequently found himself alone these

days, due to

the increased interest in Integration origins due to the

Millennial

Celebrations. Even the Spice Dreaming could be done alone,

but it was

much more vivid to have multiple dreamers reconstructing a

memory or a

scene from the ancient past. Jal would be along soon enough,

with a few

other of the students of the Idah-Mirabla school. Duinian would

get back to

the Tleilaxu memories, that was where his current priorities lay.

in with

subsequent Duncan gholas. Idah-Mirabla was more like a

family than a

school, a relic preserved from its founders. Duinain himself

was one of

three gholas born on the same day, although rarely interacted

with his two

twin _brothers._ As an historian, his focus had always been in

the past.

Duinain had perfected the technique of multiple Spice

Dreamers

reconstructing the same historical moment in a revolutionary

way. Each

Spice Dreamer became responsible for the thread of a single

character in a

past moment, and as the long dead personas interacted

through the dream,

each dreamer kept a tight hold on his assigned persona. Some

target moments

even had auxiliary Spice Dreamers focusing on interpersona

communication or

even collective subtexts. This way, more internal detail could be

obtained

and the scenes came across with a greater resolution of internal

dialogue

and stray thoughts that were historian_s bread and butter.

His thoughts wandered back to a Spice Dream he had

constructed a dozen

times before, to a time that he felt had an historical poetry about

it. The

than the Spice Dream, and the dilation of time brought him back

to the time

soon after the destruction of the original Rakis. His target was a

no-ship

in search of a home_

Sheeana emerged from the no-ship with a sense of wonder

and completion

as her feet touched the sand of this new world. A desert. She

thought,

although other voices whispered, _ for the taking.._ --She

turned her

thoughts to the stream of responsibilities that were to follow. She

had no

precedent to guide her, only an adherence to Bene Gesserit

tradition that

must hold where all other traditions had unraveled. She was the

tradition

now; what had been was one thing, but what lay ahead for her

and those who

followed her was quite something else.

The planet had five moons; Sheeana liked this fact the

moment Duncan

had reported it upon the planet_s discovery by the no-ships

sensors. She

had already rejected permanent settling of another world the

had stopped

mythology,_ she had said to Duncan. Stopover proved its

namesake accurate,

and within a month they returned to their no-ship _leaving their

moonless

haven for the void of foldspace.

Time passed. Scytale paced his cell pondering the cells

within his

nullentropy tube. The sandworms rumbled in the converted

cargo hold.

Sheeana worked with her fellow renegade sisters in private

sessions. The

Duncan awoke one night soon after a nightmare vision, he saw

a ghostlike

Dune returned, and was overcome with the feeling that this was

a gauntlet

that humanity could not surpass by simple destruction of the

world. He saw

Fremen there, and Muad_Dib was there, inviting him, warning

him. He told

Sheeana that it was an oracular dream, but it was not the future

he saw,

not a prescient vision. He had failed to explain it more.

_I don_t see the future,_ Duncan insisted and his emphasis

on that

final world somehow was a clue to Sheeana of what he did

see, _things

simply appear in the net of my extended awareness. They must

not be thought

of as visions of the future._

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archaeologicalinformation,atemporalstrataopenedtousthathasallowedareconstructionofwhatinancienttimeswouldhavebeencalled"history".RememberthatMultipleMemoriesandPersonaShiftingwerenotcommontraitsofourhumanancestors.ThisfactwasamongthemostalarmingandrevolutionaryofallthosemadebytheSpiceDreamers--peopl...

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