destroyed Leto saw no need to preserve that knowledge, and he feared the potential harm it would cause if it should fall into the hands of what he termed the "wicked " Under Leto's rule some sietches actually returned to the practice of sacrificing virgins, a ntual that appeared m the earliest Fremen days on Dune But this regression to a semibarbanc past was short-lived The ultimate result of Leto's policy, when coupled with the ecological reversal occurring on Dune, was to make the Fremen into little more than museum exhibits The planet grew green, the people grew soft, the villages grew more and more isolated from each other, while enemies grew fewer and less troublesome As Fremen survival needs were more easily met, educational needs diminished Unlike the people of Caladan, who turned to the arts for revitahzation, the Fremen people simply began to die They had known nothing of life except endless struggle Once that FREMEN JIHAD 232 FREMEN JIHAD straggle was removed, the Fremen lost their will to live As the planet grew nch with water, the Fremen people like the great worms that needed the deep, dry desert to live, began to die quietly, unmourned and virtually forgotten ID the year 2549 of his reign, Leto de clared Fremen an endangered population and ordered his Fish Speakers to move those that still lived to reservations These reservations later evolved into the "Fremen Museums* which tried to replicate the ancient sietch ways PF Further references FISH SPEAKERS FREMEN JIHAD Hwen Urtom tr The Little Book of Riddles Studies in Atreidean History 534 (Paseo last of Galacto-ftemen Culture) FREMEN JIHAD.