ean Prime and Duncan-the Last, Duncan-13663 could not tolerate the realiza- IDAHO 13724 329 IDAHO 13724 tion that he was useless or antiquated Uncommonly his attack on the God Emper or was not impulsive He planned the assassi nation after the Ixians made the lasgun accessible He was survived by his wife and children, who were later the cause for a particularly poignant moment in the lives of Duncan the-Last and Sioaa Atreides IDAHO, DC]NCAN-13724(d 13791) or Dun can-the-Last, as he is popularly known, was along with Duncan-10208 the most notewor thy of all the gholas of the famed Atreides right hand Retaining many of the charactens tics of Duncan tame, he also embodied all the adjustments the Bene Tleilax had made in the gholas over more than thirty-seven hundred years of production There is also evidence that Duncan-10208 was the tern plate for Duncan-13724 While this conclu sion involves considerable reliance on sec ondary evidence, one supporting fact is that Duncan-!he~Last had DI-!0208's invisibility of prescience However, there were (rajts in the final Duacan that also reflected other predecessors For example, he preferred the monogamy of Duncan 13663 and had the especial!) astute niiliUry instincts of M 11181, 'the Genera!" Most significantly, there are additional indications that Duncan-the-Last had been conditioned to resist the persuasions and compulsions of the God Emperor Leto n to a far more thoughtful and reflec tjve degree man even the typically recalcitrant Duncans usually had In addition and to a far lesser degree of certainty, it is suspected that he was conditioned in much the same manner as Hayt although more successfully, and that his rebellion against the God Emperor was stimulated by Hwi Noree's presence and, specifically, by her statement, "I was designed to please an Atreides Leto says his Duncan is more an Atreides man many more born to mat name ' Her attraction to him can be partially explained by ms historical attractiveness to women, and his embodiment of me Atreides character la fact, the reactions of the Fish Speakers to the later Duncans indicate that he had, in some manner, begun to function as a human aphrodisiac, a condition revealed in Leto's diaries by the observation that Duncan 13724 frequently excited the Fish Speakers to exces sive and dangerous displays of their abilities However, his attraction to Hwi is more enig matic and may have resulted (as could have hers) from pre awareness appetites and pat terns built in by the Tleilaxu and the Ixians Perhaps Duncan 13724 was pro grammed resistant to Siona Atreides an aver sion that would have disappeared with the God Emperor s death To better understand the nature of Duncan the-Last and his unique role in the fall of the God Emperor it is important to consider why Leto II always desired the company of a Duncan Idaho One reason was pragmatic Leto needed the Duntans gene;* for his pro gram of breeding individuals who were mvisi ble to the