Rakis Ref Cat 3, 6, 7 9-A83 IDAHO, DONCAN-13381, Delivered with a melange addiction The Bene TleHax and the Space Guild hoped mat Leto iTs affection for his Dunean would force the God Emperor into revealing the location of his enor mous spice hoard to Duncan-13381 This stratagem appeared to work Responding to a post-hypnotic command, Dunean led the Spacing Guild ambassador to the board They were allowed a brief moment of triumph and then slain by the waiting Fish Speakers IDAHO. DOHCAW-13663 (d 13723) Beot known for his lasgun attack on Leto 11, in which one of the God Emperor's vestigial legs was harmed, and for his sixty-year span He is, with the exception of Duncan-the-Last. the longest lived of all the Duncans- something of a major achievement The "Welbeck Fragment" indicates that prior to 13663 nine Duncans had suffered violent deaths and nineteen had died of natural causes These figures are now known to be highly inaccurate Leto II's dianes in the Dar-es-Balat hoard have already indicated that over twenty Dunean gholas failed to survive the first-contact interview with the Fish Speakers, and the initial survey of the dianes reveals that there were well over seventy Duncans delivered by the Bene Tleilax While the Duncans were often subverted either by psychological elements introduced by the Bene Tleilax or physical abnormalities, Duncan-13663 appeared for most of his life to be a return to the original prototype This "throwback ' may have been an attempt to lull the God Emperor prior to the delivery of the seriously modified Dunean the Last However, he manifested the fanatical loyalty and affection toward the Atreides associated with most of the gholas and the original He was distinctive, however, m one major characteristic He was the only Dunean who was monogamous a factor that surely con tnbuted to his stability Early in his career, he married the Museum Fremen Irte, who lived in Govgoa (originally Jacurutu) on Arrakis, and who strongly resembled Lady Jessica Atreides Together thev had two sons and a daughter The psychological itnphca tions here are fascinating While there was considerable conjecture but little evidence that the woman was a ghola of the original, planted in Goygoa by the Bene Tleilax, Leto n tolerated the situation and did not interfere His motives for this are unclear perhaps he did it out of cunosity, perhaps out of reverence for his grandmother's memory However, the time Duncan-13663 spent with the Museum Fremen and his family aggravated his own sense of uselessness and heightened the bitterness that seemed always to precede the Duncans deaths Duncan-13663 learned of his impending termination from the Ixian ambassodor He was being replaced because of his advanced age (most of the Duncans refused melange and so did not benefit from its geriatric properties) and because the God Emperor felt the need to have the Dunean genes more widely available in his breeding program Like Dun

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