aged or betrayed the atomics, in other cases, mere were simply top many attackers to allow even the largest stockpile any real chance of destroying all of the attackers' homeworlds Nevertheless, the widespread use of atom ics dunng the Jihad led to profound anti-atomic feelings among all the survivors, which resulted in the Great Convention of 337, which codified the earlier principles of "massive retaliation" into Imperial law, and to which all of the Houses were adherents SINCE THE GREAT CONVENTION Although all of the Houses maintained their atomics stockpiles until me reign of Emperor Leto, mere are only two instances of their use Each was brought about by an insane leader somehow compelling his own forces to use atomics, whereupon all Houses within striking distance combined then forces and obliterated the House The first of these was House B'ganne, in 410 Apparently not believing that the other Houses would stand by the Convention when push came to shove, Duke Quentm decided to use the B'ganne atomics to force the surrender of the planet Formanms, whose atomics Quentm had seized in a very clever coup When the commander of Formanms refused to surrender, Duke Quentm began bombarding the surface of the planet with the B'ganne atomics House B'ganne was a Major House, but it was probably the perfect target for a test of the Convention, since Duke Quentm was a rival of the Emperor, Wallach I, and had a manner and personality that had earned him the nickname "the Foul He had antago mzed nearly every one of his neighbors and "allies" with his highhanded, needlessly cruel, and generally improvident behavior Thus it was with some relish that the Formanm garrison commander sent a wave to every possible system, informing them of what Quentm was doing, and invoking the Con vention Everyone who heard the call real ized that this was the test of the convention and thanked his personal icons that it would be such an easy decision to make The obliteration of House B'ganne was the true ratification of the Great Convention The Convention was never invoked again, except once in the case of Yware, a totally mad pretender to the throne, who somehow obtained a small cache of atomic weapons and used them to attack the Imperial Seat in 5506 His home world ' was a hollow planetoid circling Fallow Eight it had a population of approximately ten thousand and took only three hydrogen warheads be fore it split open The actions-known as The Gathering-of Emperor Leto, who forced the Houses to turn over their family atomics to him during his reign, closed the subject and ended millennia of dependence on stockpiled terror W D I FEDAYKIN The most dreaded wamors of their time more feared than the Sardaukar of the Padishah Empire, considered by some to have been the equal of the Fish Speakers To a man the Fedaykm were Fremen who served Paul Muad Dib in his first battle against the House Comno and the Harkormen Forces and then as his elite troops in the Se