erial family tree R M Treac has translated fragments of these ancient documents, finding references to an earlier chapter house on Salusa Secundus, apparently open during the Premen captivity cm that planet Some connection may exist between that chapter house and the women mentioned both in Aramsham's The Sardaukar Strike and Sardaukar Victorious The Kaitain records date its chapter house ongin to approximately the same time House Comno moved its court to that planet Perhaps archaeological work beginning on Kaitain will support the Archive material The venfica tion of a chapter house on Salusa Secundus will be more difficult since all requests to do archaeological surveys have been denied Discovery of a chapter house on Grumman one devoted to martial arts training, has led specialists in die Gmaz/Montam Feud histo ry to speculate on the relationship of the Bene Gessent to the early development of weaponry expertise m both Houses Harq al-Hattia in The History of Duke Leto Part I refers to the ' weirding conspiracy" and to the "women whose swords bear two edges" as chief proponents of die Assassin Conspiracy Until the discovery of the martial arts school and chapter house on Grumman, critics had accepted this reference as one of al-Harba s mythic allusions Perhaps his information was taken from the copy of Geoffroi's At Center Stage The lll-Fated House Gmai found in his private library, or it may have been that the Grumman chapter house was stili remembered in his time Records are less complete on the chapter houses on Yorba, Chusuk, and Ciemahn Banqs, mentioned only m The General Chap ter House Listings (Bene Gessent Archives) The Listings show that Chusuk was the smallest of the three perhaps because its primary concern was music and the arts areas never very important in the Sisterhood curriculum The Yorba chapter house appears to have thrived as the center for business admimstra tion education and for the accounting ser vices which handled the revenue statements for all the chapter houses off Wallach IX The Listings show that the MBA degree, Mother of Business Administration, was awarded for over four hundred years with an average of five hundred recipients each academic year Obviously business, economics, and accounting were gnen higher priorities by the order than were the arts The Listing also gi\es some information on Ciemahn Banqs but no indication of the specialty of this chapter house The graduate school was called the School of Biological and Social Sciences, but all specific information about degree requirements and professional tram ing remains censored, sealed in the Archives There is however an indication that a part of the graduate library and entire files of research work were transferred to Ix before the Ciemahn Banqs chapter house was destroyed The Ixian Institute will not make any of these records available to us This lack of information is unfortunate because of the Ciemahn Banqs razing We may never know why Leto & order