Urania Demlen was an especially arrogant and unrepentant man, whose disdain for his fel low man's intelligence was equalled only by his respect for his own-and that of his machines As his quite pndeful and voluntary description of his work on Richese droned on, Urania's feelings overcame her training and her face began to betray her revulsion Ultimately even Demlen noticed and interrupted his stream of self-coagratulatory can dor to ask what was upsetting her Urania told him his work violated fundamental pnn ciples of respect for human life, not to men non the offense to the worship of the Goddess At the mention of the Goddess Demlen exploded in a fit of honest and atid outrage and in his fury after s iggesting that there was more worth reverence in one of his machines than in the worship of a sup posed goddess invented by a clutch of bucolic bumpkins on a pigsty of a planet Demlen turned toward the icon of Kubebe as if to spit on it Before he could commit the act Urania had killed him with her ceremom al knife That night the priestesses met m council and the next morning Jihad began to be preached to the faithful of Komos, against the thinking machines and all who find their gods within them Far from being eager for this Jehanne argued against it Hei statements, insofar as we can construct them seem to have antici pated much of what was to happen in the coming years-the growing ruthlessness of the crusaders the atrocities the deaths of so many innocents But the priestesses were not deterred It was not that they did not believe that these things might happen Rather they resolved on the Jihad in spite of this belief Their horror before the discoveries of Richese and the certainty that they would be duphcat ed on other planets their deep rooted out rage at the insult to dieir Goddess and their religion-these made their minds firm Too many analyses of the origins of the Jihad have ignored this motivation-the people of Komos believed their religion So too did Jehanne, but her beliefs were tempered with mercv and foresight to a degree not true of the priestesses Jehanne could not have been dislodged as the leader of the movement even had any one wished it But from this moment there was a certain tension within the leadership of the Jihad On the one hand there was Jehanne, urging mercy and restraint on the other was Urania whose goal was the extirpation of any hint of machine domination of humans and who was willing to sacrifice much and many to achieve it The tension was re solved m fa\or of Urania on Carthagos The transformation of the Jihad after Jehanne s death has been discussed at length in the various histories of the movement These discussions have focused upon the BUTLER 139 BUTLER growing ruthlessness of the crusade, and in so doing have failed to remark upon certain changes in tactics which bear directly upon the question of the nature of Jehanne's participation as leader.