weet to medium dry (the greener, the sweeter) The Atreides oenologists have developed a sparkling Delkai from the dry end of the range that if disgorged annu ally after the third year m the bottle ages well and seems to improve with travel This sparkling Delkai ts not surprisingly the wme which the Atreidet> family must frequently serves when ritual or propriety indicates that a Caladaman fla\or is desired D M SUUGEE [A word must be added for Suugee the highly alcoholic beverage dis tilled from Pundi Rice Although mainly a cheap and effective drink reserved to the peasantry it enjoyed a brief vogue among the most discriminating classes during the Pauline Imperium -Ed ] Further reference Biizal ven Tinuum A Gastronome s Guide to the Great Houses tr Suun Sen Yao (Caladan INS) CALENDAR, STANDARD IMPERIAL The sys tem of chronology used for official purposes throughout the Impenum since 5000 Its ba sis is the time in which Kaitam completes one revoluUon around its primary 360 days, 3 56 seconds The units of measurement are CALENDAR 147 CALENDAR 60 standard seconds to a standard minute, 60 standard minutes to a standard hour, 24 standard hours to a standard day, 6 standard days to a standard week, 5 standard weeks to a standard month, 12 standard months to a standard year ORIGIN When House Comno shifted its capital from Salusa Secundus to Kaitain in 1487, the emperors already knew that they were not only moving to a much more pleas ant world but to a stable and regular planet as well The saying "You don't need a watch on Kaitain" was doubly significant it re ferred not only to the mote leisurely pace of the planet but to the ease of keeping tune by natural means The Alman Comno emperors followed the immemorial custom, when arriving on Kaitain, of dividing the natural day into twenty-four parts, those parts into sixty, and those again into sixty They retained the terms hour minute, and second for these divisions even though the Kaitamian hour, for example, differed from the Salusan hour (as it did by lesser or greater amounts from the "hours' of the great majority of inhabited worlds) ProUdmationi., edicts, bulletins, aid the like-anything warranting both dating and preservation-were promulgated throughout the Impenum bearing the Kaitamtan date followed by, e g , ' 'given in the seventeenth day, fourth month, tenth year of Saluso VII" Only the Spacing Guild had a continuing need to reference the local dates of one planet to those of another, and they employed their own method-pulsed, regular tones on the Hdizman Waves aimed at the mail drops- as the standard to which local times were compared Those outside the Guild who had the occasional desire or need to relate the day, month, and year of on