ong and painful period needed to resolve hostilities between the two groups of women The integration of the four groups not only renewed the vigor of the original breeding line but also added genetic characteristics which enhanced this cultures' eventual technological progress THE BENE GESSERRETTE Voice Suzette comments on the rejuvenation of the Bene Gesserat by breeders in the northern territories Her era saw the formation of women s groups that sought openly to produce a savior Voice Lucienne says that eventually the north gained a self-proclaimed savior, a man born out of peasant gene-camers and educated in the ancient traditions He believed himself a god emperor and set out to gam an empire His conquests reunited the northern and south ern gene-earners reopening communication through the female espionage agents he planted within the hareem system He also sought through intermarriage of the anstorcracy of the north to reunite the two northern lines From women within the hareems and women within the northern Bene Gesserat was established the Bene Gesserrette its mother house located m Wallachia, an area at the junction of the northern and southern units Here the southern and northern breeding records were reunited in an updated Summa The old Bene Gesserat twining programs were reactivated across the north and sent to the newly occupied territories across a Western Ocean Voice Mana reports that within three centuries the northern and southern units had been inte grated Both units remained secret but while the southern unit retained its traditional hareem structure, the northern operated under the guise of an educational religious order pro viding cloistered education for aristocratic BENE GESSER1T HISTORY 123 BENE GESSERIT HISTORY females and occupational training for working class females THE BENE GESSERIT The northern cul ture experienced an improvement of tech nology, leading within less than a century to radical social revisions The Mother House recognized the usefulness of technology and trained women to gam powerful positions within the northern group, particularly m the advanced western group One women's group in the western territory became independent of the Mother House, calling themselves Daughters and trying to assert political claims by making their breeding charts the basis for social acceptability They publicized their breeding charts, set standards of etiquette, bred male children for political office, and viciously attacked units of die Mother organization They no longer believed in group consciousness, and they bred for a purely secular savior, trying to nullify the power of any other breeding group Within two and a half centuries, the Mother House had successfully excommunicated diem, deprived them of public validity, and retained only breeders who had not participated in the splinter group For information concerning the technological era, the reports of three Voices become valuable Voice Maura Macume det