revealed in his refusal to accept Hawat's resignation refueled Hawat s unfaltering loyalty to House Atreides Himself an expert in sabotage and counter-sabotage, Hawdt ferreted out many a Harkonnen intrigue He may have deplored the need, but he did not hesitate to use bribes, deceit, or even murder if service to his Duke called for them From experience, Hawat had become eternally suspicious As Duke Leto once said of him, "He sees assassins m every shadow' Perhaps Hawat s most significant service to the Atreides was his acute assessment of the Fremen Using the data Gurney Halleck brought him, Hawat shrewdly saw that previ ous estimates of the Fremen population were ridiculously low And, once he began to learn the qualities of the desert people, he knew without a doubt that they were a poten tial corps of fighters as strong and as deadly as the Sardaukar Hawat did extensive research and prepared filmthpb on the Fremen culture His first analysis of the Fremen religion, which familiarized Leto and Paul with such terms as * Mahdi" and "Lisan al-Gatb ' embodied all the essentials The old Mental quickly grasped Fremen ways and seemed especially sensitive m retognumg Iheir concerns as, for example, their preoccupation with water reclamation their reticence with strangers, their passion for freedom their obsession with exchisivism His advice to Duke Leto was sound when he urged caution in com mandeenng the Desert Botanical TesUng Sta tions lest the action antagonize the Fremen for whom the bases had some deep signifi cance Hawat also realized that the Guild's refusal to allow the Atreides to orbit a weather satellite was based not on financial considers tions but on their fear of an Atreides discovery of Arrakis s true value The accuracy of 302 his foresight was subsequently substanti