Many forces sought control of the Atreides twins and, when the death of Leto was announced, this movement of plot and counterplot was amplified. Note the relative motivations: the Sisterhood feared Alia, an adult Abomination, but still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides. The Church hierarchy of Auqaf and Hajj saw only the power implicit in control of Muad'Dib's heir. CHOAM wanted a doorway to the wealth of Dune. Farad'n and his Sardaukar sought a return to glory for House Corrino. The Spacing Guild feared the equation Arrakis = melange; without the spice they could not navigate. Jessica wished to repair what her disobedience to the Bene Gesserit had created. Few thought to ask the twins what their plans might be, until it was too late.
"What do I want? What do I want? I... have not been chasing my ass all over the galaxy trying to pull out chunks of my brain. I... have not been sneaking fembots and skreeths into the places where I live. YOU want something! You. You want what's inside my head. You want what I know about wormholes. Because I... can leap tall galaxies in a single bound! I can scorch planets with a wave of my hand and you — and you — and you... you can't do jack."
— John Crichton, Farscape
"Each of you know the child of the Lamb. Through ADAM, our souls shall pass into her holy blood and will be reborn as a single immaculate body. But the Beast is upon us, children. It wears a hide of iron and its hands are death and change. It would seize the child from us and with her, paradise itself!"
— Father Simon Wales, BioShock 2
"Someone's going to a lot of trouble to hunt down Emma Smith. Possibly a whole army of someones. Her astral projection levels are impressive, but not necessarily related to her prime function. Whatever Emma sees in her dreams is way beyond subjective experience. Revenant stalkers we know all about — it's everything else she sees that's got us so interested.
Zurn wants you to drop everything and focus on bringing the kid in. You're not going to do that. You appear to be building something out there — let's play out this 'trust' angle and see if we can get Emma to come to you. We believe that every time she projects or dreams she opens herself up to whoever's after her.
She can't hide forever."
Zurn wants you to drop everything and focus on bringing the kid in. You're not going to do that. You appear to be building something out there — let's play out this 'trust' angle and see if we can get Emma to come to you. We believe that every time she projects or dreams she opens herself up to whoever's after her.
She can't hide forever."
— Kirsten Geary, The Secret World
