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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and

events portrayed in this story are either fictitious

or are used fictitiously.

DUNE

Whipping Mek

A Tale of the Butlerian Jihad

this booklet, or portions thereof, in any form.

DUNE

WHIPPING MEK

A TALE OF THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

hen the armored Jihad warship arrived, the population of Giedi

Prime expected news of a great victory against the evil thinking

machines. But with only a glance at the battle-scarred vessel, young

Vergyl Tantor could tell that the defense of Peridot Colony had not gone at all as

planned.

On the crowded fringe of Giedi City Spaceport, Vergyl rushed forward,

pressing against the soldiers stuck there as ground troops, like himself: wide-

eyed green recruits or veterans too old to be sent into battle against Omnius’s

combat robots. His heart hammered like an industrial piston in his chest.

He prayed that his adoptive brother, Xavier Harkonnen, was all right.

The damaged battleship heaved itself into the docking circle like a dying sea

beast beached on a reef. The big engines hissed and groaned as they cooled from

the hot descent through the atmosphere.

Vergyl stared at the blackened scars on the hull plates and tried to imagine

the kinetic weapons and high-energy projectiles that combat robots had inflicted

upon the brave jihadi defenders.

If only he had been out there himself, Vergyl could have helped in the fight.

But Xavier—the commander of the battle group—always seemed to fight against

his brother’s eagerness with nearly as much persistence as he fought against the

machine enemy.

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When the landing systems finished locking down, dozens of egress hatches

opened on the lower hull. Middle-ranking Jihad commanders emerged,

bellowing for assistance. All medically qualified personnel were called in from

the city; others were shuttled from across the continents of Giedi Prime to help

the wounded soldiers and rescued colonists.

Triage and assessment stations were set up on the spaceport grounds.

Official military personnel were tended first, since they had pledged their lives to

fight in the great struggle ignited by Serena Butler. Their crimson-and-green

uniforms were stained and badly patched; they’d obviously had no chance to

repair them during the many weeks of transit from Peridot Colony. Mercenary

soldiers received second-priority treatment, along with the refugees from the

colony.

Vergyl rushed in with the other ground-based soldiers to help, his large

brown eyes flicking back and forth in search of answers. He needed to find

someone who could tell him what had happened to Segundo Harkonnen. Worry

scratched at Vergyl’s mind while he worked. Perhaps everything was all right . . .

but what if his big brother had been killed in a heroic rally? Or what if he was

injured, yet remained aboard the battered ship, refusing to accept help for

himself until all of his personnel were tended to? Both of those scenarios would

have fit Xavier’s personality.

For hours, Vergyl refused to slow down, unable to fully grasp what these

jihadi fighters had been through. Sweating and exhausted, he worked himself

into a trancelike stupor, following orders, helping one after another of the

wounded, burned, and despairing refugees.

He heard muttered conversations that told of the onslaught that had wiped

out the small colony. When the thinking machines had attempted to absorb the

settlement into the Synchronized Worlds, the Army of the Jihad had sent its

defenders there.

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