In the seventh and eighth generations, attempts were made to convert all the able-bodied Zensunni to the mystic disciplines of the Imperial Sar-daukar. The end result was always the same: the Zensunni either completely ignored the attempt, or feigned going along with the conversion until the instructors could no longer keep him away from weapons training At that point, the "convert" arranged to kill as many of his fellow students and instructors as possible, along with himself. In 5295, near the end of his reign. Ezhar Vll reviewed the records detailing nine generations of his ancestors' failures with the Zensunni and decided that he would not be responsible for a tenth Taking full advantage of the chance to be remembered for his benignity, the old emperor announced that it was not bis policy to punish people whose only crime lay in having had criminal forebears, and arranged for the surviving Zensunni to be transferred to Ishia (second planet of Beta Tygri), a Corrino holding which had been allowed to lie fallow since its discovery. BELA TEGEUSE. Aside from the initial wrench of having lost hah* their number, the Zensunni who were transported in 4492 from Poritrin to Bela Tegeuse were well treated and fared much better man their numbers on Saiusa Secundus. Upon landing, they were given what stock and machinery they would need and left alone on a planet very similar to the one from which they had been taken. When years had passed with no sign of the raiders* return, the Zensunni once again adopted many of the customs acquired on Poritrin. They established their homes, their farms, their grazing areas-but with differences. On Poritrin, where they had been so certain that no one and nothing was going to disturb them until the time came for their people to journey back to Nilotic al-Ourouba, they had scattered their settlements all over the planet, and left them open to visitors. On Bela Tegeuse, the settlements were larger, closer together, and more often in contact; they were also heavily walled, and sentries were posted every hoar of the day and night. It was not all grim and military, however. There was time, as there had been on Poritrin, to study the Shah-Nama, the First Book. There was time to raise fruit trees and flowering plants, to build fountains, to wonder about and pray for the half of the misr never expected to be seen again. And there was enough time-almost eight centuries of peace-to dull the pain and soften the memories of having been uprooted from the world that most of the Zensunni considered their home planet. When the Sardaukar descended again in 6049, however, none of that mattered a bit. The Zensunni fought this new invasion, true, and many of them fought valiantly; but they were faced by adversaries raised and trained in an environment too fierce for the Zensunni to imagine it.