UET-. (10156-10191) Second plane tary ecologist of Arrafcis m the pre-Muad'Dib era Born m Sietch Tabr to Pardot Kynes and his Freraen wife, Mitha, Uet-Kynes' life served as a focal point for many of the historic disturbances of his time It was not a role he deliberately sought, but one continu ally chosen for him Even fas name-"Liet" -Bed him to evens over which he had no control, Ulwt, or "Older Liet," had once been ordered to dispatch his father, Pardot Kynes, and had chosen suicide instead This death set the course followed by generations of Frcmea thereafter, a fact acknowledged by Liet-Kynes" parents m their choice of name for their son Pardot Kynes desired a son chiefly to con solidate his position among the Fremen He was shrewd enough to realize that even his leadership of the desert people did not make him one of them Thus he married one of their woroea and fathered a son who could continue his work (The elder Kynes became a widower shortly after his son s birth and although he survived Mitha by some nine teen years he never remarried His duty had been done and he was freed, as he saw it of further domestic responsibilities ) Liet Kynes saw little of his father during his earliest childhood Many of the duties that would ordinarily have been filled by his father had been taken over by Stilgar a Fremen fifteen years Liet Kynes senior whom Pardot Kynes had seen joined to his son in blood brotherhood in 101 j8 Raised with the rest of the sietch children he was taught the ways of bled and sietch, palmary and desert He learned Fremen history as related by the Sayyadina water discipline and customs, and the fanatic hatred the Fremen had possessed for all those of House Harkonnen since the day Beast Rabban had been gi\en jurisdiction