ing Guild thought they were safeguarding the universe from technology while exploiting it themselves Such measures were necessary since the Bene Tleilax always viewed war, poverty, and religion as mere products or markets Since most of their involvements in these areas involved human exploitation, Tleilaxu technology stressed genetic fabrications arid psycho-neural adepts They provided hu-manoid, sentient tools Face dancers, gholas, sex toys, generals, twisted Mentats, subverted Suk doctors, Guild navigators and artificial melange are major examples of their wares The Tleilaxu Kwisatz Haderach, a result of their dabbling in archetypes and pure essences, might have been another had it not willed its own death Their greatest successes were, of course, the Duncan Idaho gholas Throughout their involvement in the Impenum from their discovery through the fall of the God Emperor Lcto II and the rise of the Sioiid-Duncan union, the TleiUxu were the objects of almost universal loathing, fear, and disbelief Even in the fiercely competi five business and politics of the Comno and Atreides eras they were singled out and resented for their parsimony A naive interpretation might find this revulsion surprising Did not the Tleilaxu supply Houses Major and Minor with technological necessities weapons and toys7 This they did, for a pnce but inherent m their offerings was the guilt that came to buyers from their violations of the Budenan edicts The frequency of the epithet Dirty Tleilaxu demonstrated how soiled people felt as a result of their sinful commerce with the inhabitants of Tleilax, and an entire corpus of superstitions and phobias arose from the resultant anxieties The Fremen, for example, usually rejected Tleilaxian metal eyes, be cause they felt that the user would be darkly enslaved and wear an evil collar On Gamont, it was believed that face dancers were erotic demons capable of becoming incubi or succubi, and the lower orders of die Bene Gessent identified Tleilaxu sperm with deformed and retarded children Among the more educated and less superstitious, the Tleilaxu were thought of as too cruel to be human, and the Bene Gessent Reverend Mothers frequently taunted the face dancers with the threat of the gom jabbar The 'human distrans ' was one of the causes of this attitude, and such beings were gener ally considered unclean, a degeneration of humans into machines In addition, the gholas were often thought of as reanimated dead, and many houses practiced cremation in fear of the ghola possibility Face Dancers, because of the essential duplicity ot then- natures, were rarely trusted and were generally despised Even the God Emperor Leto II, usually distinguished by his tolerance, hated the Tleilaxu Certainly, any Atreides had good reasons to loathe them for their constant belligerence The Tleilaxu threats to the Atreides included the equipment to tram the Laza tigers that tned to attack young Leto II TRUTHSAYER 491 TRUTHSAYER and Ghanima; the attempted ghola-slavery of Chani and Paul Atreides and assassination of the twins and Paul; two direct assaults on Hwi Noree, one of which included Leto II himself; and the crucial delay of the ghola to replace Duncan-the-Last.