(10202 10208) The first ghola of Duncan Idaho was a gift to the newly crowned emperor Paul Atreides from the Spacing Guild Hayt was delivered to the new court by the first Guild ambassador Ednc, during the presentation of diplomatic credentials Havmg been regenerated m the Bene Tleilax axolotl tanks, Hayt was an exact physical duplication of the ongmal Duncan Idaho In fact due to the methods of regeneration the Tleilaxu were using at the time, Hayt's flesh was Duncan s The ghola Hayt differed from the ongmal in only four wajs he had no memory of his life as Idaho, bis natural eves had been replaced by lead colored metal ones a change resulting from Tleilaxu whimsy rather than any miury he had been educated as a mentat and a Zensunm philosopher, and he was conditioned to be a weapon that could have destroyed the Atreides Many historians maintain that the Hayt gift should have been rejected His Bene Tleilax eyes and regenerated flesh evoked all IDAHO DUNCANHAYT 320 IDAHO DUNCAN HAYT of Sulgar's Iretnen superstitions, and the Naib strongly advised Paul to reject the ghola Paul himself was uneasy with a being who appeared and acted like ail old, trusted friend, but who was merely an appearance rather than a reality Nonetheless, the Idaho-Atreides bond held true and the ' young master" could not reject even die image of his beloved teacher and comrade Paul Atreides was still a young roan, and he sorely felt the loneliness and isolation of his role as emperor and his character as Kwisatz Haderach Just as loneliness partly motivated Paul s love for Chain, so too be sought is Hayt the solace of his past amid an antagonistic empire But Stiigar and Paul were well advised to fear Hayt The ghola himself admitted that his purpose was to destroy Paul and advised his own rejection Hayt had been purchased from the Bene Tleilaxu by tile Spacing Guild The purchase was part of & conspiracy involving the Guild, the Bene Tleilax, and the Bene Gessent, all of whom feared the young emperor's control of the priceless melange The agents were the Reverend Mother Cams Helen Mohaim, Ambassador Ednc, the Princess I nil an, and the face dancer Seytale They cloaked their machinations behind Ednc's ability as a Guild navigator to be concealed from Paul's and Alia's prescience Hayt was conditioned to accomplish two initial subtle purposes before the assassination of Paul First, through Havt's echoing of Idaho's and the Atreides' morality and through the circumlocutions of Zensunm philosophy, he was to blunt Paul's judgment The conspirators wanted to encourage Paul to differ entaate between the critical positive and nega ave aspects of life and religion, thus poisoning Paul's psyche and creating an empire he could not live in.