Brian Herbert - Dune Sequel 01 - Dune Revenant

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DUNE REVENANT

(20525 A.G.) The present inquiry of the Fish Speaker Schools

has its origins in a long forgotten crisis. Knowledge of the events

surrounding the millennia called the Scattering, and subsequently,

the great Integration that followed is critical to understand the peo-

ple of that ancient time. The discipline of the Spice Dreamers and

their ability to reconstruct and disseminate the personae of "our

past humanity" has provided us a tool of utmost importance.

Through their efforts, we have discovered a wealth of archaeologi-

cal information, a temporal strata opened to us that has allowed a

reconstruction of what in ancient times would have been called "his-

tory". 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 in-

fluenced 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 com-

mon name of Guldur, although, as a historian, he knew the Ty-

rant 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 sev-

eral structures on various Fish Speaker worlds would have suf-

ficed. All the major schools were convening here on the planet

Ouadra, however, for its rich history dating back to the first dozen

Fish Speaker Schools. Known in ancient times as Chapterhouse,

Oudara was home of the Idah-Mirabla School, the school Duinain

acted as chosen representative for during these celebrations.

Hundreds of events surrounded the Millennial Celebrations, each

suited to the quasi-familial roles and goal-groups the various schools

were founded on, as well as lectures to be given by representatives

of each of the Fish Speaker Schools. Duinain looked across at the

banners of the various groups and listed them off to himself,

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 assem-

bly, all over the course of several standard months. The celebra-

tions 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 en-

tered 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 calen-

dar 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 Du-

inain 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

Scattering was ended and the Returning commenced, a great over-

coming took place. Today we stand here as a testament to both

our individual Schools' irreconcilable uniqueness as well as our

ability to retain the Individual amidst such an Integration. We are in

agreement that the archaic concept of humanity, although of only

minor significance to Individual life, once was a rallying word for

pre-Integration beings. While Persona Shifting and Multiple

Memories have become common traits among Individuals in all

the major Schools, the question of how these changes came about

has long remained a mystery. The origins of the Fish Speaker

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

torical 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 ac-

quired 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 Mul-

tiple Memories, and could share Personas passed on within a

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

cently 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 abil-

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

consensual hallucination allowed history to be re-experienced, as

easily as reading a history book had been ten millennia ago.

Duinain paused as he was joined at the podium by a young con-

duit named Jal from the Noree-Ampre School. The Noree-Ampre

school maintained a strong backbreeding with the original Ixian

genepool, that had been in fashion these days, which also suited

the schools members to the technical expertise of large-scale

Spice Dreaming. Anyone could learn to fold the consciousness of a

few proximate people, but there were a lot of threads to track and a

level of discretion to drop insignificant threads, that required a

Spice Dreamer with the Ixian background to manage such a large

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

bled 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 hallucina-

tion, each thought woven to the fabric of the desired target. Dui-

nain’s last thoughts before the dream were on Jal, who was an al-

phaline 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 moni-

tor 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.”

She always calls him Paul, never the ghola. When I was young,

mother Schwangyu had always referred to me as the ghola,

never as Duncan. But Sheeana is no longer Bene Gesserit.

He watched the pair in combat training below, and Sheeana

turned up the listening device to eavesdrop. Paul was angry.

“Where is Duncan? Isn’t he going to be teaching me to use

plasma weapons?”

_Where is Duncan?_ I remember when the original Paul

used to request

my company, while I watched on with his father, Duke Leto. So

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 mil-

lennia; 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 suc-

cessful 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

preceding it, they would bring back to life the strangest attractor

of the

ancient world, they would create a ghola of Paul Atreides.

Paul cried out as Miles landed a blow. _Alright, lad, that_s

enough

hand-to-hand for today, let_s move on to those plasma weapons

you spoke of

earlier._ Miles glanced up at the observation window, and both

Duncan and

Sheeana knew what his face told.

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 be-

fore 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

to create such a wild story where an imaginary man-god is fab-

ricated and

then reconstructed as a ghola who is less than his origin is such a

bizarre

tale that it must be true._

A voice from the crowd sounded "Of course you are familiar

with the

idea of Ghola Degradation Theory..."

As the voice continued to counter the Spice Dreamer findings,

Duinain

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 ques-

tions 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 pro-

duced the

Integration, Duinain infrequently found himself alone these

days, due to

the increased interest in Integration origins due to the Mil-

lennial

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.

The Tleilaxu memories are not history, they are the key to all

of our

futures.

Duinian had a strong backbreeding to the original children of

Duncan

and Murbella, and although the practice of Duncan ghola_s

continued up

until two hundred years before, the Idah-Mirabla school kept to

the actual

offspring, unlike the solipsistic Hayt-Idaho school, that crossbred

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 con-

structed a dozen

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

it. The

present faded, and Duinain heard the years recede with a

sound he always

likened to the wind rushing through the reeds from his child-

hood. The

association pleased him, and over the years he had nurtured

it, so the

hours spent in his small boat on that river by his childhood

home were

never lost. Soon there was no room in his consciousness for

anything other

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 tra-

dition 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 mo-

ment 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

on, a cooler world in comparison, much more temperate,

much like

Chapterhouse. They had nicknamed this first world Stopover,

and, this

world further resembled Chapterhouse in that it had no moon.

We even chose to remove that detail. To much romance in a

moon for the

homeworld of a sisterhood that forbade even music.

Sheeana needed a world with at least one moon. _We are

building a new

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

sake 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._

Sheeana knew Duncan_s Mentat training often hindered his

ability to be

a mystic. Her suggestion to him came out in one word:

_Zensunni._

One of Duncan_s past incarnations had been as a Zensunni

philosopher,

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DUNEREVENANT(20525A.G.)ThepresentinquiryoftheFishSpeakerSchoolshasitsoriginsinalongforgottencrisis.KnowledgeoftheeventssurroundingthemillenniacalledtheScattering,andsubsequently,thegreatIntegrationthatfollowediscriticaltounderstandthepeo-pleofthatancienttime.ThedisciplineoftheSpiceDreamersandtheirab...

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