Following her elevation to the Regency, the public record indicates that she was unavailable except for official duties, such as greeting pilgrims and sitting in judgment of cases brought to her for trial. During the same years in which she held herself aloof from family and friends, Alia indulged m massive doses of melange, ostensibly for the purpose of broadening her prescient vision. Since we have reliable accounts of her confession that she lacked her brother's prescient ability, and that the spice-trance most often failed her, it seems reasonable to assume that her purpose in entering the spice-trance with such regularity was" quite different from that staled. The same drug which had initially keyed her sensitivity to her ancestral voices could be depended upon to keep those same voices from becoming blurred or unavailable. Alia's heavy melange consumption was just another means of maintaining contact with her internal advisors. {The Bene Gesserit were not alone in this view, Bronsoof Ix, in The Atreides Imperium, dismisses Alia as "a self-made disaster." A simitar opinion is held by LOTS Karden, author of Truth and Fancy in the Oral History, published some eight hundred years after the B.G. Report.) Alia's actions during her Regency are depicted in the Report as those of a power-hungry woman aided by the memories of generations of ambitious rulers and princelings. Her every maneuver, including her marriage to the fust Duncan Idaho ghola. is seen as having been performed in order to solidify her own position, and her manipulation of the children in whose names she ruled is declared the most devious maneuver of all: Not content with having destroyed herself, she set about to lead her niece and nephew into similarly destructive ways.