Chapter 05
Posted: 12 Feb 2008 21:26
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is
when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague
ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan
Alia enters the council meeting, knowing it is going to be a bad one, as Korba and Paul are talking. She accuses the Qizerate of being spies. Paul notices Alia has become a woman. Paul instructs Korba to lead the pilgrims in prayer in his place. Irulan wonders if Edric conceals her from Alia. Paul decides to let the location of Tupile, the sanctuary for defeated Great Houses remain a secret. Stilgar asks if Paul can locate Tupile through prescience but Paul tells him the act of seeking it out itself could hide it. Stilgar presents the next order of business, the Ixian Confederacy requests a constitution and wishes to negotiate their imperial taxes. Paul thinks the Jihad is faltering but too late to save him. He remembers his horror at the earliest visions of it, now become reality and the worse things yet to come. Paul forbids constitutions in his empire and decrees that the price of him signing the Tupile Treaty is for the Ixians to accept the tax. Stilgar then brings up that House Corrino has been putting their one legion of Sardaukar through landing maneuvers and Paul asks Irulan to send him a message to stop. Stilgar then brings a request from the Bene Gesserit to discuss preservation of the royal bloodline. Paul denies Irulan's proposal that she bear an heir due to her loyalty to the Bene Gesserit and her desires for personal power. Lastly, the Guild requests a permanent embassy on Arrakis. Korba warns that the naibs might present a danger to Steersman on Arrakis due to the long history of them blackmailing the Fremen for secrecy. Paul says they are going to send a Steersman and they wouldn't come if they saw danger. Irulan asks if Paul had seen a Steersman which he denies and explains that he can see where one has been and where they are going. Irulan takes comfort in Paul and the Guild's mutual blindness to each other and believes the conspiracy is still hidden.
when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague
ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan
Alia enters the council meeting, knowing it is going to be a bad one, as Korba and Paul are talking. She accuses the Qizerate of being spies. Paul notices Alia has become a woman. Paul instructs Korba to lead the pilgrims in prayer in his place. Irulan wonders if Edric conceals her from Alia. Paul decides to let the location of Tupile, the sanctuary for defeated Great Houses remain a secret. Stilgar asks if Paul can locate Tupile through prescience but Paul tells him the act of seeking it out itself could hide it. Stilgar presents the next order of business, the Ixian Confederacy requests a constitution and wishes to negotiate their imperial taxes. Paul thinks the Jihad is faltering but too late to save him. He remembers his horror at the earliest visions of it, now become reality and the worse things yet to come. Paul forbids constitutions in his empire and decrees that the price of him signing the Tupile Treaty is for the Ixians to accept the tax. Stilgar then brings up that House Corrino has been putting their one legion of Sardaukar through landing maneuvers and Paul asks Irulan to send him a message to stop. Stilgar then brings a request from the Bene Gesserit to discuss preservation of the royal bloodline. Paul denies Irulan's proposal that she bear an heir due to her loyalty to the Bene Gesserit and her desires for personal power. Lastly, the Guild requests a permanent embassy on Arrakis. Korba warns that the naibs might present a danger to Steersman on Arrakis due to the long history of them blackmailing the Fremen for secrecy. Paul says they are going to send a Steersman and they wouldn't come if they saw danger. Irulan asks if Paul had seen a Steersman which he denies and explains that he can see where one has been and where they are going. Irulan takes comfort in Paul and the Guild's mutual blindness to each other and believes the conspiracy is still hidden.