Chapter 333 Contradictions and Struggles

Duke Leto returned to his castle. He walked into the conference room, sat in a chair and said nothing, but showed a worried expression.

"My Lord, what did they say?" Duffy couldn't help asking.

Duffy had just tested the shield of the coalition government and truly understood what the adjective "indestructible" should mean in reality.

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

If Atreides could obtain this shield technology, not to mention the Harkonnen family, even if the royal family was added, they would not be able to pose any threat to Atreides.

Atreides would be invincible!

To put it another way, even if Atreides could not obtain this shield technology, as long as they became allies with the coalition government, they would be able to protect themselves in the Galactic Empire.

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

Duke Leto raised his head and said with a melancholy face: "They want to help us become the emperor of the galaxy."

Swish——

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

Everyone's eyes were focused on Duke Leto's face, some were incredulous, some were shocked.

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

Duffy carefully checked the silent beam of the conference room, confirmed that the sound in the conference room could not be transmitted outside, and then asked cautiously: "What condition?"

Leto's concubine Jessica was in a state of turmoil.

Jessica is the mother of Paul, the protagonist of "Dune", and also a member of the Sisterhood. She gave birth to a child for Duke Leto under the order of the Sisterhood to promote the breeding plan planned by the Sisterhood for thousands of years.

The Sisterhood is actually a religious organization.

But unlike other religious organizations, the Sisterhood neither waits for the savior nor worships the savior, they create the savior.

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

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

He will sit on the Golden Lion Throne and rule the empire. Most importantly, he can be controlled by the Sisterhood.

The Sisterhood calls this man Kwisatz Haderak.

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

Among the royal envoys who are about to come to the Atreides Family to read the will is the Virgin Mary from the Sisterhood. This Virgin Mary is Jessica's teacher and has come specially to observe whether Paul has the potential to become Kwisatz Haderak.

At this critical moment, the United Government came out of nowhere and proposed to help the Atreides Family become the new Galactic Emperor, which was something the Sisterhood had never expected.

If the Atreides ascended the Golden Lion Throne and ruled the Galactic Empire without the help of the Sisterhood, then the Quesatz Haderak, which the Sisterhood spent thousands of years to create, would have nothing to do with the Sisterhood.

Jessica's heart was torn.

On the one hand, as Paul's mother, she hoped that Paul could live according to his own will; on the other hand, as a member of the Sisterhood, she hoped to complete the Sisterhood's breeding plan and create a savior who would obey the Sisterhood.

Before today, she had never felt so torn, because at that time she only had the choice of being a member of the Sisterhood, but the emergence of the United Government gave her an additional choice as Paul's mother.

Jessica lowered her head to hide her inner uneasiness.

Duke Leto and Dufey didn't notice her abnormality. Duke Leto said to Dufey: "Their condition is to take away the entire Arrakis."

Take away a planet?

The United Government is so capable?

Dufey was stunned.

But he quickly reacted, frowning and asking, "Arrakis is the only place where spice is produced. Let's not talk about how they plan to take Arrakis away. But without Arrakis, there will be no spice. How can we travel in the future?"

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

Spice is not only related to interstellar travel, their sisterhood also needs spices to cultivate truth speakers who can use sound to control people's behavior. Without Arrakis, the sisterhood will no longer exist!

"They plan to give us a program for calculating the navigation trajectory." Duke Leto smiled bitterly. He didn't know whether it was reliable to use the program to replace the navigator. "At that time, they will add a protective shell to the program to prevent others from using this program to create artificial intelligence."

"Just a navigation program?" Duffy's brows did not relax.

He had no objection to replacing the navigator with a navigation program, but spice was not only related to interstellar travel.

The Galactic Empire feared computers like tigers and leopards, so for a long time, all scientific research and massive paperwork of the Galactic Empire were completed by Mentat trained with spices.

Once the spice supply is cut off and Mentat is destroyed, who will do the scientific research and paperwork in the future?

If the navigator is to be replaced by a program, then the Mentat must also be replaced by a program.

This requires a lot of programs.

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

The Union Government came from other galaxies, and taking Arrakis away meant leaving the Milky Way.

The Union Government leaving the Milky Way was a good thing for the new Galactic Empire, but after the Union Government left the Milky Way, where could they find the Union Government to solve their problems?

"Once we let them take Arrakis away, we will have to restart the research on computers and artificial intelligence." Duffy said in a heavy tone.

Although it was more than 10,000 years ago, Duffy was very familiar with the history of more than 10,000 years ago, and knew how tragic the price the ancestors paid to suppress the intelligent rebellion at that time was.

"But."

Duffy changed the subject and said in a resounding voice: "This is completely acceptable to us, because if we do not cooperate with the United Government, the best outcome for Atreides is to be trapped in Caladan and go from bad to worse."

"But if we cooperate with the United Government, Atreides can sit on the Golden Lion Throne and rule the galaxy!"

Duffy continued: "As for the hidden dangers of artificial intelligence, we can control the scope of computer technology research and only allow people we trust to study computer technology, and store a large number of spices for emergency use."

As a Mentat with countless wisdom stored in his mind, Duffy has long been dissatisfied with the Galactic Empire's behavior of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.