useful since the bursts were often diffused or dfeflected Finally, the most importantly, the navigators of each fleet simply could not calculate the many and quickly shifting variables of the situation more than one hundred to two hundred seconds in advance of event and so had to get new data much more frequently than would ordinarily have been the case Comn demonstrated the handicap of navigators who relied primarily upon calculation rather than perception The most effective tactic, suicidal in ordi nary circumstances, was to match vectors with an enemy vessel, approach closely, and follow an intense lasgun barrage with a boarding party Count Sheuset clearly anticipated this Few of the Landsraad warships earned any personnel trained for hand-to hand combat, and those that were could not withstand the Sardaukar Once the Sardaukai secured a vessel, it, too, was pressed into service against the remaining Lasdsraad units The advantage Sheuset1 s fleet thus gained during the first thirty minutes more than compensated for greater Landsraad numbers The Landsraad High Council deployed seventy-one capital ships to Count Sheuset's twenty-three, but die Sardaukar captured thirty-sevea Nmeteen more, including the flagship, were blown up, mostly in the second hour when panic and desperation began to infest the Landsraad command Three finally surrendered, eleven escaped, and one has never been accounted for Two Sheuset and five allied ships were blown up and one, com manded by the Bashar Abulurd Harkonnen, fled during the early minutes of the engage ment Among the casualties of the battle which included both the commander of the Landsraad forces, Duke Efim, and Count Sheuset s younger daughter, perhaps most notable was the honor of House Harkonnen It seems likely that the Bashar Abulurd did not expect his lord to survive Comn He was stripped of rank, titles, and his Dahkotah mining interests Only Count Shuset'b inclination to magnanimity following his victory permitted Abulurd to flee alive into exile Further references lilprad Maian The Influence of Space Power on History (Salusa Secundus Gravlak) CORRINO, ATidRH (10132-10176) The wife of Padishah bmperor Shaddam IV, known primarily as the mother of Princess Irulan (St Irulan, The Virgin Irulan Inifan Atreides) and as the grandmother of Harq al Ada New material found at Dar-cs-Balat, a collec tion of Anunl's songs, poems and journals in the library of Harq al Ada and information released by the Bene Gessent Archives give substance to this shadowy historical figure Like many Bene Gcsscnt women destined to be breeders, Anunl was never allowed knowledge of her parents identity (the Sister hood often inbred closely among family lines and feared adverse reaction because of incest taboos) Now, after thousands of years, the Sisterhood feels secure enough to release the information Anunl was the daughter of a liaison between Count Mauns Paluna distaff cousin of House Cornno, and Zhaivee Elstun,