th fact and common sense argue for this conclusion ATREIDES, SIONA 100 ATREIDES SIONA The only reason to suppose differently is that by calling into question the existence of Paul Atreides and his acts, many hundreds of university scholars have been able to publish countless articles and books so that they may receive promotion and tenure S G Further references ATREIDES, DUKE LETO ATREIDES 1ADY JESSICA HARKDNNEN KWISATZ HADEJUCH ATREIDES CHANI Because tbe literature concerning Paul Atreides is so extensive the reader is referred to the partial listing contained in die Bibliography appended to this volume ATREIDES, SIONA IBM FCIAD AL-SEYEFA (13698 13953) Daughter of Moneo Ibn Fuad al-Lichna Atreides, Leto n & last majordomo, and his commanded breeding partner, Seyefa Nycalle Siona led the rebellion which terminated in me God Emperor's Fall She was the end of Leto's millennia-long experiment in human evolution, the first of the new Atreides line, capable of disappearing from prescient view In her, Leto had created the means of humanity s continued survival and of his own destruction Seyefa left Fish Speaker service when Siona was a year old, and the child remained with her parents in quarters near Leto's Citadel until she was ten She was then sent, at Leto's orders, to the Fish Speaker school in On a Valuable as parental guidance was, the training Moneo and Seyefa provided for their daughter served only as groundwork for the education she would receive from her Fish Speaker teachers and from Leto himself Seyefa (bed a year after Siona's admission to the school Her death was the earliest event for which Siona held the God Emperor to blame, she was to tell her father many years later that her mother would have survived tiie fever which lolled her bad someone been at home to care tor her Since Leto monopolized Moneo's time and had ordered Siona sent away to school, her mother's death was his fault, Sioaa reasoned Despite her gnef, Siona performed well at tbe school, for her teachers refused to accept anything less than her best Almost a century later she wrote I saw papil after pupil make mistakes in the simplest exercises aad be given a gentle rcpn Hand or be completely overlooked If / made evea die slightest error-one target missed in a gunning drill1-I was made to repeat the entire sequence This was the first hint I was given that the instructors had been told to give me special attention and I hated it The Fish Speaker teachers had been given other orders as well More so than any of the other pupils Siona was exposed to the Oral History and its many contradictipns of the official ' 'received version of events While some of the faculty at Onn felt uncomfort able about teachings which so closely skirted heresy, Jhey could console themselves with the idea that Siona was, after all, an Atreides And the God Emperor alone decided what was best for his descendants Siona spent nine years at the Fish Speaker schoo