ine, the Lady Jessica Harkonnen (10154-10256) Moreover, there is precise agreement in alt three sources concerning his birthdate 10175 But these sources are not the only reasons for believing that Paul was of House Atteides The actions of the Fremen of Swtch-Tabr can only be understood if Paul was an off-wortder and had undergone the education afforded by being noble-bom and of House Atreides According to Fremen culture, Stilgar, the Naib of Sietch-Tabr, should have put both Paul and the Lady Jessica to death upon finding them in the desert after the assassination of Dake Leto They were a threat to the sietch in two ways first, if left alive, the two nmgflt tead rivals to the vicinity of the sietch, second, as off-worldere unfamiliar with the ways of survival in the desert, they would be a drain on the resources of the sietch There was, moreover, a rather positive reason for killing them as well the water recovered from their dead bodies would augment the supplies of the sietch Many historians believe that the fact that neither Paul nor Lady Jessica were killed is confirmation of the theory that the two peo pie so named in the sourtes were not of House Atreides but themselves natives of Sietch-Tabr They reason that no other explanation could justify Stilgar's behavior But in opting for this simplest of explanations, these historians forever muddy the waters of al! later events Given Paul s lineage as that of a simple Fremen, why would members of the other sietches ever cast their lot with him1? The cultural and political development of the Fremen in the year 10191 does not allow for a sudden combining of all the forces of all the sietches, even against a common enemy No, the Fremen were too well-organized into sietches at that time for such conceited action And, most important, the tau, or oneness of a Fremen sietch was not the tau of the entire Fremen peoples Such oneness was flatly impossible to achieve given their nature For the Fremen to rally under the banner of a single hero demanded that that hero not be of an alien tau, and not be too closely associated with a single sietch Paul Muad'Dib as a blood member of House Atreides fulfills the necessary conditions perfectly Consider that as the son of Duke Leto, Paul would have been trained by the finest warriors of the age Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck Moreover, his tutor would have been the Zensunm mental Thufir Hawat, a man who, given the fact that the Fremen themselves come from a Zensunm background, was in a unique position to give young Paul that cast of mmd that would fit in well with Fremen thought and belief Moreover, one must remember that Paul was the result of the Bene Gessent breeding program for which most accurate records now exist The Lady Jessica betrayed that program by having Paul instead of a daughter Paul Atreides was, in other words, the result of a program that had been going on for thousands of years, a being who was to embody all the powers of the Bene Ge