s execution would show him what kind of leader Siona might be expected to become Could she inspire companions to follow her in what was almost certainly a suicide mission, could she get the group through the defenses and back again, could she recognize the coded Journals as items equally as important as the plans she had come to steal? (It mattered little whether Siona herself realized initially what the volumes were or not, what would matter would be her willingness to chance carrying off the extra weight) Besides testing Siona, did Leto in fact desire the Journals to be taken and decoded? He is known to have feared that his actions would be misunderstood in times to come unless he arranged for revelations to be made His speech with Holy Sister Quinttmus Violet Chenoeh, recorded m the Bene Gesserit's papers and made public after her death, was one attempt to reveal his intentions to his subjects This convenient placement of two of his Journals may well have been a second Withm a few weeks of the Citadel raid, Siona had arranged for copies of the stolen books to be sent to the Bene Gessent school in Wallach DC, to the Spacing Guild High Command (via its representative on Atrakis), and to the Inquisitors of IK Each group was to attempt a translation, with all results to be reported m full to Siona, their cooperation shows how seriously they regarded the effort The rebels assumed that the Ixians would find the cipher's key first After all, they had provided not only the paper but the dictatel that Leto had wntten them with-that might seem a headstart of sorts But the Guild, approaching the problem from a direction the mechanically minded Ixians did not consider, succeeded m breaking the God Emperor's code Siona originally received only the Guild Key and a translated copy After careful study of the key and the translation, she became cunous enough to ask how the mtn cate cipher had been solved The answer- given only after clearance from the Guild High Command-impressed even the zealous Siona with the importance the Guild had placed on solving the problem first To achieve their primacy, they had spent much of their most precious coin melange The most sensitive Steersman available had been given a dose of spice equivalent to that needed to pilot a dozen heighhners He was then told what was required of him and left alone with the Stolen Journals The Key was completed within the day The Steersman, accustomed to using melange induced prescience to pick out the optimum course for a ship, focused that same power on finding the one true solution to the cipher The two activities were more similar than might have been expected, because Leto had used a code with several solutions, but only one-that recorded m the Key-deciphered both volumes completely and consistently In 13730, six years after Leto's assassma lion, Siona arranged for the publication of an abridgement of the Stolen Journals That version, standard for centuries, lacked all but the most savage introspective passages and focused on the violence mat often served as the foundation for Leto's Peace A history of subjugation it produced its desired effect by creating in its readers an overpowering anger against the inhuman monster so long dominant One of Leto s most frequent prophecies-that he would be remembered for many generations as Shaitan-was fulfilled, as the Stolen Journals combined with the Oral History to give liberated humanity a portrait of the God Emperor as a heartless manipulator C W SUK SCHOOL 485 SUK SCHOOL Further rttenmeeK ATREIDES LETO n JOURNALS OF ATRHDES SIONA, Radi Kharlan Atreufes The Hoty Books