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The tight controls have bene put in place because last time Belarusians voted for a president, the country was swept by giant protests.

I am thrilled that “Dune: Prophecy” has gotten a pickup and that we can continue telling the story of Valya and Tula Harkonnen and the rise of the Bene Gesserit.

We also learn that Valya earned her leadership of the Sisterhood, the forebearers of the Bene Gesserit, through mass murder.

Given the present circumstances, who wouldn’t want to escape into a universe where women could leave their inferior situation and join the Bene Gesserit, “a new family made up of women unafraid of their power”?

The Sisterhood engineers bloodlines, manipulating matches between great houses to cultivate leaders the Bene Gesserit can control, thereby influencing the flow of power.