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Duke Leto returned to his castle. He walked into the conference room, sat on a chair without saying a word, and only showed a worried expression.

"Your Majesty the Duke, what did they say?" Du Fei couldn't help but ask.

Du Fei had just tested the shield of the coalition government, and he really understood how the adjective indestructible should behave in reality.

As a Mentat, he understood what this shield technology meant.

If Atreides can obtain this kind of shield technology, let alone the Harkonnen family, even the royal family will not be able to pose any threat to Atreides.

Atreides will be invincible!

Taking a step back, even if Atreides cannot obtain this shield technology, as long as he becomes an ally with the coalition government, it is enough to protect himself in the Galactic Empire.

At this moment, Duffy is eager to know the content of the conversation between Duke Leto and the coalition government.

Duke Leto raised his head and said with melancholy: "They want to help us become the Galactic Emperor."

sieve--

In an instant, the entire conference room was as quiet as empty.

Everyone's eyes focused on Duke Leto's face, either in disbelief, or pale with shock.

"Don't look at me like that." Duke Leto showed a helpless expression, he spread his hands, and his tone was slightly weird, "They really said that, and they only put forward one condition."

Du Fei carefully checked the mute light beam in the conference room, and after confirming that the voice in the conference room could not be transmitted outside, he asked cautiously, "What conditions?"

Jessica, Leto's concubine, felt a storm in her heart.

Jessica is the mother of Paul, the protagonist of "Dune", and also a member of the Sisterhood. She was ordered by the Sisterhood to give birth to Duke Leto's offspring, which will be used to promote the breeding program that the Sisterhood has planned for thousands of years.

A sorority is actually a religious organization.

But unlike other religious orders, the Sisters neither wait for a savior nor worship a savior; they create a savior.

They believe that through long-term genetic selection, they can eventually produce a special male.

Under the stimulation of spices, this male can have all the memories of male and female ancestors, can become a humanoid computer Mentat, and can predict the future like a navigator.

He will sit on the Golden Lion Throne, rule the Empire, and most importantly, be controlled by the Sisters.

The Sisterhood referred to the man as Quesatz Hadlak.

For thousands of years, the Sisterhood's breeding program has been infinitely close to success. Jessica's son Paul is the Quesaz Hadrak that the Sisterhood has been searching for for thousands of years.

Among the royal missions coming to the Atreides family to read the decree is the Virgin Mary from the Sisterhood. This Virgin Mary is Jessica's teacher, and she made a special trip to observe whether Paul has the potential to become Quesac Hardlak.

At this critical juncture, the coalition government was born and proposed to help the Atreides family become the new emperor of the galaxy, which the Sisterhood never expected.

If House Atreides ascended the Golden Lion Throne and ruled the Galactic Empire without the Sisterhood's help, then the Quesatz Hadrak, which the Sisterhood had spent millennia creating, would have nothing to do with the Sisterhood.

Jessica was very divided inside.

On the one hand, as Paul's mother, she hopes that Paul can live according to her own will; on the other hand, as a member of the sisterhood, she hopes to complete the breeding program of the sisterhood and create a savior who obeys the orders of the sisterhood.

Before today, she had never felt so disconnected when she had only the option of being a member of the sorority, but the emergence of the coalition government gave her the option of being Paul's mother.
Jessica lowered her head to hide her uneasiness.

Neither Duke Leto nor Dufy noticed her abnormality. Duke Leto said to Dufy: "Their condition is to take away the entire Arrakis."

Take a planet?
How could the coalition government have such great capabilities?
Duffy froze for a moment.

But he quickly realized, and asked with a frown: "Arrakis is the only source of spices, not to mention how they plan to take Arrakis away, but without Arrakis, there will be no spices. How do you go on an interstellar voyage?"

Jessica pursed her lips tightly, and the waves in her heart became more violent.

Spices are not only related to interstellar travel, their sisterhood also needs spices to train truthsayers who can use voice to control people's behavior, without Arrakis, the sisterhood will cease to exist!
"They plan to give us a set of programs for calculating flight trajectories." Duke Leto smiled wryly, and he didn't know whether it was reliable to replace the navigator with a program. "At that time, they will add a protective shell to the program to prevent the Others use this program to create artificial intelligence."

"Is it just the navigation procedure?" Du Fei's brows did not stretch.

He had no problem with using navigation programs to replace navigators, but spices were not just about interstellar travel.

The Galactic Empire is as afraid of computers as tigers and leopards, so for a long time, the various scientific research work and massive paperwork of the Galactic Empire have been done by Mentats cultivated with spices.

Once the supply of spices is cut off and Mentat dies, who will do the scientific research and paperwork in the future?
If programs are to replace navigators, programs are to be used to replace Mentats.

This requires a lot of programming.

Even if the coalition government can provide these procedures to solve current problems, what should they do when they encounter new problems later? Do they always ask the coalition government for help?

The coalition government comes from other river systems, saying that taking Arrakis away means leaving the galaxy.

It is a good thing for the new Galactic Empire that the United Government leaves the Milky Way, but after the United Government leaves the Galaxy, where will they find the United Government to solve their problems?

"Once they take Arrakis away, we will have to restart computer and artificial intelligence research." Du Fei said heavily.

Although more than 1 years have passed, Duffy is very familiar with the history of that period of more than 1 years ago, and knows how much the ancestors paid at that time to suppress the intelligent rebellion.

"but."

Du Fei changed the subject and said loudly: "This is completely acceptable to us, because if we don't cooperate with the coalition government, the best ending for Atreides is nothing more than being trapped in Kaladan, and the world will go downhill."

"But if you cooperate with the coalition government, Atreides can sit on the Golden Lion Throne and rule the galaxy!"

Duffy went on to say: "As for the hidden dangers of artificial intelligence, we can control the scope of computer technology research, only allow people we trust to study computer technology, and store a large amount of spices for emergencies."

As a Mentat with countless wisdom stored in his mind, Duffy has long been dissatisfied with the Galactic Empire's behavior of giving up food because of choking. (end of this chapter)