s for Zimaona have yet been located among the nduttan crystals) The number of acknowledgments and children born of legal marriages to Znnaoman natives increases steadily over the next twenty years, and it is among the transfer records from Zimaona that we see for die first tune, beginning in 10233, folders with a beige tab, showing that the soldier in question refused return to Arrakis and was mustered out on the planet The use of the beige tab was an innovation restricted to Zimaona and suppressed even there after just two years It may be that the beige tabs were having a destructive effect on morale-6,000 soldiers refused return in those two years-and the folders of those who ended their enlistments on Zimaona returned to the use of the green tab specified for general purposes elsewhere throughout the empire The total number of Fremen who refused return to Arrakis, therefore, is buned m die mass of general transfer records, but their numbers are hinted at in the two-year innovation of Zimaona Rakis Reference Catalog 3-M530 provides another revealing insight into the decline ot the Fremen soldiery The conquest of Carillon dunng Paul Muad Dib s Jihad was one of the more protracted and difficult ones, taking eighteen months before the mam re sistance was crushed The Rakis Finds crys tal numbered 3-M530 includes the Table of Organization and Equipment for the Fremeii forces at the close of the first year of the campaign, when they had reached their maximum of about 250,000 men According to the TOE, roughly 25,000 of these were support personnel supply, medical, military government, and the like This ratio of support troops to combat troops--1 to 9-was unbelievable to their enemies and unprece dented in military history The Sardaukar at their most efficient, say at the end of the 7000s with millennia of experience behind them and no challenge to their supremacy never achieved a better rauo of support to combatants than 3 to 1 Forty years later there was not the ghost of a resistance on Carillon, nor had there been for thirty-five years Problems of law en forcement were handled by local and regional constabularies, and the Fremen garrison was the only military force on the planet It consisted of one reinforced regiment, about 3 200 men Yet this regiment was backed by a supply and administrative structure num benngover20,000 The support to-combatant ratio was over 6 to 1 m a peaceful world where the noise of battle had not been heard for over a generation Moreover, the examination of the names on the rosters of the support personnel-and this is admittedly an imperfect measure-shows only about one in ten to be Fremen While the troops under arms continued to be drawn from Arrakis, me maintenance of planetary supply, provi siomng, quartering, and medical service was almost entirely in the hands of Canllomans L One last and striking piece ol evidence will illustrate the decline which all these records show In 10221, an interesting legal document makes its first appearance On the planet Finally in that year, a Fremen soldier sued a native in the local courts for assault The outcome of the trial is of no consequence what is significant is that the suit was brought at all A decade earlier, the attacker would FISH SPEAKERS 222 not have survived the assault, or if he had, would not have lived to go to court The next several decades see an increase in the number of civil and criminal cases involving Fremen in the courts of Finally, showing that the Fremen were changing The} were adapting to local society and accepting the local law There is no reason to believe that Finally was different in this respect from the other garrisoned planets The evidence of the century points to just one conclusion The Fremen army that swept through the empire during Paul's Jihad was, a hundred years later, a broken reed, top heavy with bureaucrats, dependent on local support, and often manned by sick and un willing conscripts It may well be that its total strength declined, too, for Leto never allowed a census on Arrakis, and the strength of his military mm was the most closely guarded of secrets Had it not been for Leto's spice based stranglehold on die Spac ing Guild and nis consequent absolute monopoly on transportation and communication, the Fremen army could not have secured a single planet against a determined resistance after about 10260, let alone have held the Empire together THE REVOLT OF THE FREMEN The revolt of certain units of the Sardaukar, led by Duncan Idaho (11099), is dealt with in more detail in entries DUNCAN IDAHO-! 1099 and SARDAUKAR Suffice it tn say here mat this revolt must have been the major motivation for the foundation of the Fish Speakers Leto must have realized that m the Fremen army he had a tool of doubtful effectiveness whose political reliability was shaky The me of a charismatic figure (such as Duncan Idaho in any of his incarnations) was a potential danger since Idaho was a direct tie to the days of glory-someone who could invoke the name of Paul AtreKJes with a conviction and claim equal to mat of Leto It is shortly after the revolt that we first hear of the formation of the Fish Speakers, and we are now in a position to appreciate that the Fish Speakers were the effect of a clear sequence of causes GWE and WE M NOTE 'At present, the most avidly sought after docu taents m the military section are those which would establish whether Leto in this first century ot his rule employed auxiliary units of native troops on the planets of his empire Further references DUNCAN IDAHO 11099 SARDAUKAR Yauzheen Pursewarden fiision cf ihe Fish Speakers (Centralia Johun Univ Press) FLOWMETER.