Dune 4 - God Emperor Of Dune

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God Emperor of

Dune

Frank Herbert

Excerpt from the speech by Hadi Benotto announcing

the discoveries at Dar-es-Balat on the planet of Rakis:

IT NOT only is my pleasure to announce to you this

morning our discovery of this marvelous storehouse

containing, among other things, a monumental

collection of manuscripts inscribed on ridulian crystal

paper, but I also take pride in giving you our arguments

for the authenticity of our discoveries, to tell you why

we believe we have uncovered the original journals of

Leto II, the God Emperor.

First, let me recall to you the historical treasure which

we all know by the name of The Stolen Journals, those

volumes of known antiquity which over the centuries

have been so valuable in helping us to understand our

ancestors. As you all know, The Stolen Journals were

deciphered by the Spacing Guild, and the method of the

Guild Key was employed to translate these newly

discovered volumes. No one denies the antiquity of the

Guild Key and it, and it alone, translates these volumes.

Second, these volumes were printed by an Ixian dictatel

of truly ancient make. The Stolen Journals leave no

doubt that this was in fact the method employed by

Leto II to record his historical observations.

Third and we believe that this is equal in portent to the

actual discovery, there is the storehouse itself. The

repository for these journals is an undoubted Ixian

artifact of such primitive and yet marvelous

construction that it is sure to throw new light on the

historical epoch known as "The Scattering." As was to

be expected, the storehouse was invisible. It was buried

far deeper than myth and the Oral History had led us to

expect and it emitted radiation and absorbed radiation

to simulate the natural character of its surroundings, a

mechanical mimesis which is not surprising of itself.

What has surprised our engineers, however, is the way

this was done with the most rudimentary and truly

primitive mechanical skills.

I can see that some of you are as excited by this as we

were.

We believe we are looking at the first Ixian Globe, the

noroom from which all such devices evolved. If it is not

actually the first, we believe it must be one of the first

and embodying the same principles as the first.

Let me address your obvious curiosity by assuring you

that we will take you on a brief tour of the storehouse

presently. We will ask only that you maintain silence

while within the storehouse because our engineers and

other specialists are still at work there unraveling the

mysteries.

Which brings me to my fourth point, and this may well

be the capstone of our discoveries. It is with emotions

difficult to describe that I reveal to you now another

discovery at this site-namely, actual oral recordings

which are labeled as having been made by Leto II in the

voice of his father, Paul Muad'Dib. Since authenticated

recordings of the God Emperor are lodged in the Bene

Gesserit Archives, we have sent a sampling of our

recordings, all of which were made on an ancient

microbubble system, to the Sisterhood with a formal

request that they conduct a comparison test. We have

little doubt that the recordings will be authenticated.

Now, please turn your attention to the translated

excerpts which were handed to you as you entered. Let

me take this opportunity to apologize for their weight. I

have heard some of you joking about that. We used

ordinary paper for a practical reason-economy. The

original volumes are inscribed in symbols so small that

they must be magnified substantially before they can be

read. In fact, it requires more than forty ordinary

volumes of the type you now hold just to reprint the

contents of one of the ridulian crystal originals.

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