cond Jihad With the possible exception of the Sardaukar, no other troops were more fanati cal or more skilled in killing The scanty 212 FENRING HASIMIR records that remain from this era of over fifty-three hundred years ago appear to indicate that whenever the Sardaukar and Fremen Fedaykin engaged m battle, the Fedaykin soundly defeated their foes Beyond what appears to be the military superiority of the Fedaykin, they had one further advantage over the Sardaukar In fact this advantage may explain why the Fremen warriors were so much the superior While the Sardaukar were wamors who, through a vicious upbringing, had instilled cruelty and pndc into their very being, the Fremen were Fedaykin because of their extreme faith in Paul Muad'Dib Such a difference made the Fedaykin fanatics beyond the pale of human imagination A skilled warrior who is driven berserk by a holy mission will necessarily overcome an equally skilled wamor who fights merely because it is what his nature dictates For the Sardaukar, it was the fighting that counted, but for the Fedaykin, only victory mattered Thus, driven by their loyalty to the cause of Paul Muad'Dib, the Fedaykin were virtually unstoppable But when, m 10208, Paul Muad'Dib was blinded ui the attempt against his life, the central reason for die existence of the Fedaykin ended Unlike that of the Sardaukar, the history of the Fedaykin was brief, lasting less man fifty years During the final years of the Second Jihad, moreo\er, it appears that the Fedaykin were already becoming disenchanted with their Muad'Dib Fedaykin veterans, returning from off-world battles, were uncomfortable with a vastly transformed Arrakis The old sietches no longer seemed to be part of their lives, and the court of Muad Dib was even more alien to them These veterans soon became a source of discontent among the population, and it is believed that a number of mem actually played roles in the attempt on Muad'Dib* s life Such a possibility is certainly not fitr-fetched Service in the Fedaykin forced the Fremen out of "the ways of the fathers," and onto worlds they were ill-prepared to understand Those who survived the service were forever changed, and as the reasons for their sacrifice grew more distant, they must have resented die man whom they held responsible for the battles in the first place Muad'Dib was a logical target for their unhappmess In the end, however the Fedaykin simply and quietly ceased, their time being passed Paul Muad'Dib may well have planned for just such an end for the Fedaykin The army was loosely structured and did not boast a very strong hierarchy of officers In fact not one single name of a Fedaykin officer remains, a strange fact for an army that once conquered the known worlds It would be logical to assume that Paul Muad'Dib wanted just such an arrangement so that the remnants of the Fedaykin would have no single organization or center to rally to once the) found themselves without a place in th