and merciful to those who knew her she was little short of a saint and after her death she became one in the minds of millions As a result of the material produced by the excava turns on Rakis we are able to transform her from a legend into an historical personality Jehanne was trained as a priestess on Komos and also as a Bene Gessent Rather than following the career of a priestess either from her own decision or that of her order she married Thet r Butler the Logistos of Xania one of the ten administrative districts on Komos In the same year as their marriage 205 B G ) Jehanne went to the capitol of Pylos to enter the hospital for the birth of a child Since both parents had married late m life for their culture they were especially eager for this birth When on the delivery table Jehanne was anesthetized when she awoke she and her husband were informed that their daughter Sarah had been aborted The hospital explained that the fetus had been too deformed to survive The abortion was described as therapeutic Jehanne s control of her own bod) which as a result of her Bene Gessent training extended beyond those muscle s> stems usual ly thought of as automatic had permitted a deep knowledge of the growth of her child within the womb She was convinced that it was impossible tor her child to have been so grievously malformed as the hospital had described In time Jehanne came to believe that her child s death had at best been un necessary Using the access to official re cords provided by Thet r s position as Logistos she discovered within the archives of the hospital evidence that the hospital director- the first self programming machine on Ko mos-had instituted a program of unjustified abortions Armed w th this information she approached the priestesses of Kubebe for their aid in creating a movement against the domination by Richese At the same time that these overtures were being made to the priestesses Jehanne and Thet r had begun the formation of a secular organization Using Thet r s administrative abilities and Jehanne s g fts of rhetoric am plified by her Bene Gessent schooling a Front for the End of Koman Exploitation was formed Their movement was a speedy success as was their request of the priestesses for aid Contrary to some cjnical opinions the priestesses were tar too well entrenched with in a society of believers for their position to have been threatened Rather the priestesses likely entered the struggle for the same rea BUTLER 138 BUTLER son that the rest oi the Komans did-they were appalled by the evidence Jehanne was able to put forward concerning the actions of the hospital director and they agreed that the time had come to move against Richesc The coup on Koines was the first example of the organizational genius of Ihet r Butler and the tactical brilliance of Jehanne the choice of the tribute collection week as the occasion for the coup, the seizure of the tribute fleet for transport to Richese, the timing and execution of d lengthy and mtn cate plan which achieved total surprise and an almost bloodless victory The Komans went to Rtchese with nothing more than a successful revolution in mind They discovered there the extent to which then: hospital director was simply a reflection of a state of society beyond their imagination The degree to which machines controlled the population of Richese, and had altered the emotional and intellectual characteristics of its inhabitants over centuries, was literally incredible to the Komans Many of them never entirely believed what they saw there The revelations on Richese produced a Jihad but it was not Jehanne who made that decision The priestesses of Kubebe were the principal forces behind the change which occurred m the ranks of the rebels They were motivated by their interrogations of the chiet programmers and scientists of Richese, many of whom had been willing participants in the actions of the machines in altering the population of Richese Perhaps the critical moment m these interrogations occurred dur ing die questioning of a Doctor G Demlen by the chief priestess of Komos.