ceremony Liet Kynes spent more time with the child than his own father had with him but he approached her upbringing in quite a different way Whereas Pardot Kynes had seen him as an heir, a person who cou]d lead the Fremen tribes and see that the ecological transformation went on as sched uled, Liet Kynes envisioned no such future for Cham Influential she might well become in the way that Fremen women-particularly those m the Sayyadina-often were but she would not be accepted as Naib or as leader of all the tribes Under Falra s tutelage and under that of Stilgar and Misra following Falra s accidental death in 10180 Cham was raised solely as Fremen with no intereference from Impenal appointments or from out freyn ways Liet Kynes continued his father s practice of aiding the Fremen and gulling the Har konnens wherever possible and his life and work continued with relative smoothness un til the Airakeen change of fief in 10190 Like the people he led the Impenal servant greeted the departure of House Harkonnen and the arrival of I louse Atreides with guard ed optimism Unhkethem however he knew enough of the Atreides Harkonnen conflict to realize that the changeover would not go easily he also had the advantage of his court appointed position as Judge of the Change in charge of overseeing the shift in power to provide him with more information When he received a secret communication from the emperor advis ng him that all but the grossest violations on the part of the Harkonnens were to be ignored he decided that his only option was to do as his father might have done to ride out the transition and the eventual destruction of House Atreides without involving or endangering himself or the Fremen This resolve was shattered and Liet Kynes was again made a pawn of the greater forces surrounding him when he w as drawn into the aftermath of the combined Harkonnen Sar daukar attack against the Atreides The Duke Leto already dead Paul Atreides and the Lady Jessica were in desperate need of some refuge from the forces that had killed him Liet Kynes provided that refuge and sent the pair to shelter with the Fremen because he had sensed that the boy was sympathetic to the Fremen dream and capable of helping it to come true Against all his training and very nearly against his will Liet Kynes found himself unable to refuse help to the potential leader he saw m Paul Atreides This impulse cost him his life Captured by Harkonnens who cared little for his stand ing as an Impenal servant Liet Kynes was severely beaten and left in the desert to die KYNES PARDOT KYNES PARDOT His captors had deprived him of water, equipment, and stillsuit, seemingly much amused by the idea that the desert he knew so well would be the cause of his death The ecologist is believed to have perished in a pre spice mass, caught in the explosive sand exchange which occurred when such masses reached then- critical point Neither his life nor his death, however, had been in vain B} serving as an interim leader between his father and Paul Muad Dib Atreides, Liet Kynes ensured that the fiemen would survive this period, by fathering Cham, who would become the mother of Leto II, he had contributed to the continuation of the Atreides line, and by seeing that the new Atreides Duke and his mother found a place among the desert folk, he changed the course of history for millennia to come C W Further references ATREIDES PAUUMUADMB, ARRAKIS ARRAKIS ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION; KYNES, PARDOT KYNES, PARDQT.