The other form of control is through his militant religion that takes despotism to a new and terrifying level. Will she find out how to defeat the despotic God or will she be converted to his side like her father? Moneo and his daughter Siona are both Atreides but Siona is the leader of the current rebellion and seeks the God Emperor's demise.
This breeding program allows him to continuously improve on the effectiveness of his minions, including his all-female army, the Fish Speakers, and his second-in-command Moneo, who was once a rebel but is now his most trusted aid. One is a breeding program that selects for characteristics that he deems valuable and just so happens to favor his own family line of Atreides genetics. Over the 3500 years, the God Emperor has been engaging in two major systems of control. More cunning, more patient, but equally disgruntled. Each one is slightly different than the last but all of them seem to develop fatal flaws that see them sabotaging their own survival but this iteration of Duncan seems different. At the beginning of the story, we find out that he has been continually resurrecting versions of his faithful military commander Duncan Idaho, who was turned into a Ghola, or clone, for the first time in the second book and by now has been recreated hundreds of times. The God Emperor has been in complete control of the known universe with his powers of foresight, his control over the supernatural spice melange, and his army of devoted female soldiers. No matter what occurs in the book it is all in relation to the God Emperor and this gives the book a more streamlined narrative that is easier to follow. In the previous books, the quotations were from a variety of sources and about a variety of topics but in God Emperor of Dune, all of the quotes are from Leto's lost journals that were obviously found by someone. This is signified by the quotes that begin each chapter. While there are other characters and we get to listen in on their endeavors the book has a much more singular vision than any of the books that came before. Leto II, son of Paul Muad Dib, has transformed into a mostly giant, mostly immortal sandworm that has only the face of the boy that became a god remaining. In this book, there is only one character with power and they have had it for over 3500 years. Its predecessors were stories about a myriad of characters that were all vying for power. God Emperor of Dune is the fourth book in the Dune series by Frank Herbert and it takes a different track than the previous stories.
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