Rabelais, Milton, McCaitney. Shum-wan, Astiki, Camwold, and a host of others put together There ts much more documentary evidence about al-Harba and his life than exists for any of his contemporaries except those of Great Houses, with their professional historians The Rakis Hoard has done nothing to upset the conclusion that the Harban plays were the fruits of the genius of Harq al-Harba WE M Further references: HARQ AL-HARBA Karen Ambem Champagne in My Slipper The Autobiography as told to Ruuvars Dillar {Zimaona Ktnat), Izhaaiicas Bauf The Great Cryptogram Rakis Rcf Cat 31-BL904,J T Duub,fla(f-a Dozen Harbas Rakis Rcf Cat 42 BL65 Cybete Hank The Prince/The Playwright (Ztoaona Kinat) Tovat GwmstaJ, Chronicles of the Conquerors (Caladan INS), A J Kulwan, The Man Who Wai alHarba Rakis Ref Cat 75-BL791 F S Mank Monuments ofAtreideon Drama 5 v (Grumman Hartley Univ Press), Pander Oulson, Si Aba Huntress of a Billion Worlds Rains Ref Cat 2 A439 Naib Guaddaf Judgment on Arrokeen Rakis Ref Cat 29-7182 B"h Jnon Piitpmail A! Ada h al Harba Rakis Ref Cat S-BL469 Tonk Shaio Arrakeen Corners Rakis Ref Cat 61 BL757 Kurt Zhuurazh, Al Ada and altiarba Rakis Ref Cat 27 BL637 AMPOLJROS, LEGEND OF. A pre-Guild legend appearing on many planets, including Arrakis, Ix, Kronin, Reenol, Ecaz, Caladan, Bela Tegeuse, Giedi Prime, Gamont and all the planets of Niushe It tells the story of the "starsearcher ' spacecraft Ampoliros, m reality a limited-range interplanetary causer of class three, power amplitude 7 In the legend the Ampoliros takes on grander proportions, becoming a class nine, power amplitude 35, long-range explorer with the military capability of a support fighter In the legend's simplest form. Captain Fregonokon and her crew of fourteen had set off toward the Ntushe system in the year 480 BXj , a significantly difficult journey in those days before faster-than-hght travel About two-thirds of the way to their destination they came upon an abandoned cargo ship adnft tn space Upon returning from examining the empty ship they resumed their journey Two weeks later the entire crew was stricken by what must have been an anticytologic rmcrospore Ihe manifestations were high fever, sweating, dizziness and dementia magnum In a word, the crew went mad They experienced the rarest form of psychosis, group paranoia In a matter of three weeks they became convinced that all of civiliza tion had been destroyed by an invasion force of hideous aliens who attacked with unstoppable weapons from imisihle starships They radioed this information to all receivers using the widest spectrum of emergency bands The crew told of their decision to strap themselves to their guns and fly until they ran out of stores, searching for the invisible aliens, hoping to attack and destroy at feast some of them before starvation or the aliens killed them The Ampoliros was never found It is said to be still searching the stars ever ready to attack, the time-dilation effect of near-light speed travel making the crew almost immortal The legend was often used to explain to children how allowing themselves to be car ned away by imaginary fears could lead to real difficulties It was also used to suggest to adults that too much idle time was destruc tive to a well-tuned army or skJled work force "Forever prepared and forever unready' was often a phrase used to deride the crew of the Ampoliros and the state of any tactical force that has waited too long to be tested m a real tight The legend was at tunes embellished by such changes as having some of the crew die of fever or abandon ship alone m deep space Another version says they went mad not from microspore infestation but from the colossal, crushing loneliness of deep space In its various forms the legend describes the crew as suffering real or fanciful symptoms such as emotional seizures tremors of the AMTAL ANTEAC eye muscles, ego hemorrhagmg and brain-cell fusion Often the story speaks of the crew engaging m attacks on other friendly vessels, planets, asteroids, and even imaginary targets such as scanner blips and psycho-projections The legend is first recorded as being part of the folk culture of Bela Tegeuse, from there it was earned to most of die planets of the pre-Guild system Of course, in the post-Guild era it spread to scores of other planetary systems The legend is said to have been still popular well into the second millennium of Lord Leto ITs reign But its popularity diminished as space travel came to be less of a factor in the daily lives of most communities Further references.