By the end of the pitifully brief battle, there were two groups of Zensunni left on Bela Tegeuse: those who had submitted, and were being prepared for transport to Rossak and Harmonthep, and those who had resisted and died. The Imperium, it should be noted, had no particular need of Bela Tegeuse at the time of the Sardaukar raid. But both Rossak and Harmonthep, being young colonies, were in need of extra people, and the Sardaukar had to be used on occasion or risk losing their edge. The Zensunni, being mere peons (serfs), wound up on the losing ends of both rationales. ROSSAK. The segment of the Bela Tegeuse Zensunni who were sent to Rossak found a less friendly environment awaiting them than those they had known on either of their last two homes. Rossak was a cold, blustery world, the fifth planet of a star (Alces Minor) that appeared to clutch much of its heat to itself. The growing season was exceptionally short, and many plants mat did choose to grow vigorously were, to a greater or lesser degree, poisonous. Those colonists already scratching out an existence on Rossak had little time for ZENSUNNI, HISTORY 515 ZENSUNNI HISTORY newcomers This suited the Zensunnt, who had had more contact with outsiders than they ever cared to experience agam The new colonists sought out an area they thought might support them and went to work The Zensunm settlement barely survived the first winter They were not a large group to begin with-the bulk of those captured on Bela Tegeuse having been sent to the more congenial Harmonthep-and the unexpectedly bitter winter left many of them wim fatal attacks of pneumonia and other diseases not recognizable to them In addition to the illnesses, they were faced with near-starvation and a wide variety of poisonings It was because of one of the poisonings that the Zensunm made their largest religious leap since the original sect's break from the Meomcth Saan One of the Sayyadina, desperate with hunger, ate a portion of a native plant she had discovered and whose safety was questionable As the Sayyadina put it later, she suddenly found herself "within the minds of all the Sayyadina who had come before her" This unknown Sayyadma-unknown because all records indicate only that she died as a result of having ingested too large a portion of the poison-was the Zensunm's first Reverend Mother Her observations, given to one of her fellows before she fell too deeply into delirium, served as the basis for developing the Reverend Mother nte The nte was no doubt shaped, at least m part, by the Bene Gessent's panoplw propheticus which, to insure the safety of its members had seeded the worlds with its legends, in eluding that of the Reverend Mothers The entire Zensunm philosophy was immediately altered Rather than merely attempting to