redbugpest wrote:SandChigger wrote:Hey, Leto, there's an interesting point: why
didn't Jessica go ahead and have another child, a girl, after Paul? That would have shut the BG up, no?

That would have only apeseed them in regards to preserving the bloodline, so it could still be crossed the Harkonnens. There would still have been concerns and questions about what Paul was and what to do with him.
Of course, had Jessica produced a female at any other point, the whole storyline would be changed. I prefer to think that Jessica had finally given in to BG pressure when she became pregnant with Alia.
WRONG!
Paul and Jessica in the desert:
This is the way it had to be, Leto, she thought. "A time of love and a time
of grief." She rested her hand on her abdomen, awareness focused on the embryo
there. I have the Atreides daughter I was ordered to produce, but the Reverend
Mother was wrong: a daughter wouldn't have saved my Leto. This child is only
life reaching for the future in the midst of death. I conceived out of instinct
and not out of obedience.
"... the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience."
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
Sandrider: "Keith went to Bobo's for a weekend of drinking, watched some DVDs,
and wrote a Dune Novel."