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'''Komos''', later known as '''Ix''', is the ninth planet of the system of [[Eridani A]]
 
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'''Komos''', later known as '''Ix''', is the ninth planet of the system of [[Eridani A]]. Initially a tributal of [[Richese/DE|Richese]], it spawned the [[Butlerian Jihad/DE|Butlerian Jihad]]. It was isolated for centuries until joining the Imperium, discreetly trading technology with other worlds.
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  +
Surely
 
one of the great ironies of history lies
 
in the fact that the planet which
 
conceived the anti-machine Jihad also
 
birthed the supreme technology of Ix.
 
==Features==
 
==Features==
 
*diameter at equator: 40,000 kilometers
 
*diameter at equator: 40,000 kilometers
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computerized only at a very elementary
 
computerized only at a very elementary
 
level, it had not been destroyed in the
 
level, it had not been destroyed in the
first stages of the Great Revolt. In the first stages of the Jihad, Komos was nearly deserted. In [[198 BG/DE|198 BG]], with the Jihad about
+
first stages of the Great Revolt.
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  +
After the artificially induced abortion of their daughter, [[Sarah Butler|Sarah]], caused by a thinking machine director of the hospital, Jehanne approached [[Urania]], the priestess of [[Kubebe]] to create a movement against the domination by Richese, appalled by the evidence concerning the actions of the hospital director. Jehanne and her husband, [[Thet'r Butler]], the [[Logistos]] of [[Xania]] formed the [[Front for the End of Koman Exploitation]], a rebel organization against Richese.
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  +
During the tribute collection week they seized the tribute fleet for transport to Richese where they discovered the chief Richesan programmers and scientists had been mostly willing participants in the actions of the machines in altering the population of Komos. These revelations resulted (principally with the aid of Urania) to the [[Butlerian Jihad/DE|Butlerian Jihad]].
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  +
In the first stages of the Jihad, Komos was nearly deserted. In [[198 BG/DE|198 BG]], with the Jihad about
 
to leave Richese for the far reaches of
 
to leave Richese for the far reaches of
 
the galaxy, [[Jehanne Butler]] ordered
 
the galaxy, [[Jehanne Butler]] ordered
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The survival of those machines, as well as
 
The survival of those machines, as well as
 
the astonishing fecundity of the planet,
 
the astonishing fecundity of the planet,
ensured that many of the new settlers
+
ensured the survival of many of the new settlers. So
would live. So
 
 
began the transition of agrarian Komos
 
began the transition of agrarian Komos
to highly technological Ix. This population was provided
+
to highly technological Ix.
  +
  +
This population was provided
 
with two great advantages.
 
with two great advantages.
  +
*First, the oddly isolated position of the system and planet, who were on the fringes of human settlement. The ravages of the Jihad, especially severe in the sector of Eridani A, resulted in even greater isolation. For several centuries after the Jihad those on Komos were cut off from contact with the rest of humanity (at first involuntarily but then by choice).
   
  +
*Second, the immediate riches of the vast agricultural development of Komos produced a life of ease for the inhabitants, who thus had leisure time in which to think and experiment. The resettled technicians and mechanics of Richese naturally turned to machine technology as one way to occupy their time, taking great care to avoid the development of population controlling machines. There was some early resistance to this technology, but as the decades passed and the planet remained alone in a forgotten corner of the universe, decisive steps in the rebirth of truly sophisticated technology were taken.
First, the
 
position of the planet; the system was oddly isolated within its
 
galaxy, which in turn was on the
 
fringes of human settlement and the
 
ravages of the Jihad, especially severe
 
in the sector of Eridani A, resulted in
 
even greater isolation. Indeed, for
 
several centuries after the Jihad those
 
on Komos were cut off from contact
 
with the rest of the human race. At first
 
this isolation was involuntary; after
 
that, it was by choice.
 
 
Second, the
 
immediate riches of the vast
 
agricultural development of Komos
 
produced a life of ease for the
 
inhabitants, who thus had leisure time
 
in which to think and experiment.
 
The resettled technicians and
 
mechanics of Richese naturally turned
 
to machine technology as one way to
 
occupy their time, taking great care to
 
avoid the development of population controlling
 
machines. There was some
 
early resistance to this technology, but
 
as the decades passed and the planet
 
remained alone in a forgotten corner of
 
the universe, decisive steps in the
 
rebirth of truly sophisticated
 
technology were taken.
 
   
 
===As Ix===
 
===As Ix===
Now the planet was known by its inhabitants as Ix (derived from an ancient system of reckoning which identified the number we know by the symbol 9 as Ix)
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Now the planet was known by its inhabitants as Ix (derived from an ancient system of reckoning which identified the number we know by the symbol 9 as IX)
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  +
By [[110 BG/DE|110 BG]], [[Aurelius Venport/DE|Aurelius Venport]] and [[Norma Cevna]], pioneers in the field of interstellar travel to a point beyond the capabilities of the new technology, they were reluctantly forced to take their research elsewhere.
   
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Within a century the universe healed from the Butlerian Jihad but was technologically devastated. The riches of Komos had combined with the benefits of the finest scientific work to make the planet unique in the universe: a center of scientific and technological research and development center. Of course all the scientific centers and industrial complexes were concealed underground, while the surface maintained the appearance of a bucolic world devoted to agriculture.
By [[110 BG/DE|110 BG]], [[Aurelius Venport/DE|Aurelius Venport]] and [[Norma Cevna]] had
 
pioneered in the field of interstellar
 
travel to a point beyond the capabilities
 
of the new technology, and so they
 
were reluctantly forced to take their
 
research elsewhere. But, within a
 
century of their leaving, the riches of
 
Komos — had combined with
 
the benefits of the finest scientific work
 
being done in a technologically
 
devastated universe to make of the
 
planet something unique. In effect, Ix
 
had become a research and
 
development center for all types of
 
scientific inquiry. The most
 
extraordinary care was exercised to
 
maintain the appearance of a bucolic
 
world devoted to agriculture. All
 
scientific centers and the few
 
manufacturing complexes permitted
 
were concealed below ground. Above
 
ground, all one saw was the life of the
 
farmer and the rancher.
 
   
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By [[25 BG]], the Ixians had begun to explore into the settled worlds in order to judge the state of civilization of the outer universe, and to ascertain if there was any threat to their anonymity. There was a consideration for trade in the fields of technology but the feeling regarding the Jihad and computing machines prevented this. The deliberate isolation of Ix continued until the first century of the rule of [[House Corrino/DE|House Corrino]].
By [[25 BG]], the Ixians had begun
 
to venture back into the settled worlds.
 
Their trips were solely exploratory,
 
made in order to judge the state of
 
civilization within the rest of human
 
society and to ascertain if there was
 
any threat to their anonymity. The
 
possibility of trade in technological
 
items was discussed but firmly rejected
 
when the depth of feeling regarding the
 
Jihad and computing machines was
 
determined.
 
   
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Their anonymity was threatened once the
The deliberate isolation of Ix
 
 
[[Spacing Guild/DE|Spacing Guild]] reintroduced space
continued until the first century of the
 
 
travel into common use; in time their system would attract the
rule of House Corrino. Once the
 
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attention of an expansionary society, and Ix would be destroyed once their machines were discovered. In order to avoid
Imperium had been established and the
 
Spacing Guild had reintroduced space
 
travel into common use, the situation of
 
Ix changed. It became apparent that in
 
time their system would attract the
 
attention of an expansionary society
 
carried through the stars by the Guild:
 
Once their machines were discovered,
 
as they would be ultimately, the Ixians
 
had no doubt of their fate: Ix would be
 
destroyed. In order to avoid
 
 
annihilation, the Ixians made the first
 
annihilation, the Ixians made the first
move themselves. With a caution
+
move themselves and cautiously sent an ambassador to Emperor
  +
[[Saudir I]] in [[55 AG]], a daring and risky move, like the Spacing Guild did some decades ago.
equalled only by the first contacts of
 
the Guild with the Imperial house, the
 
Ixians sent an ambassador to Emperor
 
Saudir I in [[55 AG]].
 
   
  +
==In the Imperium==
Once the shock of the news had
 
been assimilated, the possibilities of the
+
Saudir was shocked with this new information, but the possibilities became obvious: If a
situation became obvious. If a
 
 
controlled source of technology were
 
controlled source of technology were
 
available to the Imperial house, the
 
available to the Imperial house, the
Guild, and the Great Houses, they
+
Guild, and the [[Great Houses/DE|Great Houses]], they
 
could have the advantages of machines
 
could have the advantages of machines
 
without their dangers to the
 
without their dangers to the
sociopolitical system. Any other
+
sociopolitical system. Any solution, such as any one of the powers
solution, such as any one of the powers
 
 
of the Imperium seizing control of Ix,
 
of the Imperium seizing control of Ix,
would destabilize the Imperium. An
+
would destabilize the Imperium.
  +
arrangement was made: Ix would
 
  +
The two sides arranged that Ix would
 
remain isolated; the Guild would make
 
remain isolated; the Guild would make
 
certain that no unapproved visitors
 
certain that no unapproved visitors
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manufacturing center for Ix. The
 
manufacturing center for Ix. The
 
interests of all parties were served by
 
interests of all parties were served by
these balanced concessions, so typical
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these balanced concessions.
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===Under the Atreides===
of the Imperium. This state of affairs
 
obtained throughout the millennia of
 
the domination of House Corrino.
 
 
After the defeat of House
 
After the defeat of House
Corrino by the Atreides and the
+
Corrino by the [[House Atreides/DE|Atreides]] and the
subsequent ascension of Leto II, the
+
subsequent ascension of [[Leto II Atreides]], became increasingly public but changed a little. Leto's attitude toward Ix was at
 
least as ambiguous as that of other
position of Ix changed little, except that
 
 
powers whose existence Leto
it became increasingly public. During
 
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permitted.
the last few centuries of Leto's reign,
 
  +
however, the policies of the emperor
 
 
During the last few centuries of Leto's reign,
with respect to Ix underwent a subtle
 
 
however, the policies of the emperor underwent a subtle
 
but consistent change. Leto ceased to
 
but consistent change. Leto ceased to
 
enforce so strictly the ban against
 
enforce so strictly the ban against
thinking machines, and even began to
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thinking machines, and began to
 
use certain Ixian products himself
 
use certain Ixian products himself
 
which would have been anathema in
 
which would have been anathema in
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navigators. The scientists of Ix believed
 
navigators. The scientists of Ix believed
 
that Leto was unaware of their progress
 
that Leto was unaware of their progress
on these constructions; indeed he was
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on these constructions who was
 
clandestinely assisting them by
 
clandestinely assisting them by
 
providing them with certain necessary
 
providing them with certain necessary
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channels which the Ixians believed to
 
channels which the Ixians believed to
 
be their own discovery.
 
be their own discovery.
 
Leto's attitude toward Ix was at
 
least as ambiguous as that of other
 
powers whose existence Leto
 
permitted. The entire question of
 
maintaining a powerful interstellar
 
civilization without the use of
 
computers or other thinking machines
 
has troubled humanity since the days of
 
the Butlerian Jihad, Whatever the
 
ultimate solution of the problem, surely
 
one of the great ironies of history lies
 
in the fact that the planet which
 
conceived the anti-machine Jihad also
 
birthed the supreme technology of Ix.
 
   
 
==Societal structure==
 
==Societal structure==
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The Komans thought of the
 
The Komans thought of the
family as an organic entity. It was to be
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family as an organic entity, to be
 
cared for in the same way that their
 
cared for in the same way that their
  +
land or crops were tended or cultivated. The future of each family was based on the resources of the adults and their ancestors, and that future achieved form
land was tended or their crops were
 
cultivated. The adults, and their
 
ancestors, provided the resources out of
 
which the future of the family would be
 
created, and that future achieved form
 
 
and life in their children. Fathers
 
and life in their children. Fathers
 
retained control of the lives of their
 
retained control of the lives of their
progeny for their lives; when a father
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progeny until their death. An adult individual was considered fully independent for the first time, when his father died.
died each of his adult sons, whether
 
married or not, became a fully
 
independent individual for the first
 
time.
 
   
 
Koman women had no legal status; they could not appear in court or inherit
Women on Komos, though they
 
 
without the appointment of a guardian, however they possessed great powers
enjoyed no legal status in that they
 
 
within the family and society at large. The religion of Komos was
could not appear in court or inherit
 
 
controlled by priestesses and similarly, the religious
without the appointment of a guardian,
 
nonetheless possessed great powers
 
within the family and society at large.
 
Since the religion of Komos was
 
controlled by priestesses, the religious
 
 
life of the family was in the hands of
 
life of the family was in the hands of
 
the father's wife. Just as every male
 
the father's wife. Just as every male
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so every young woman hoped to guide
 
so every young woman hoped to guide
 
the sacred well-being of her family.
 
the sacred well-being of her family.
  +
 
The only other social entity
 
The only other social entity
worthy of note was the tribe. Members
+
worthy of note was the tribe, composed by members descended from one certain
of a tribe traced their ancestry to a
 
 
common male ancestor. They shared
 
common male ancestor. They shared
 
certain religious observances and a
 
certain religious observances and a
common burial ground.
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common burial ground. Each tribe had a chief priestesses.
==Religion==
 
Religion was matrearchical; the religion of Komos was controlled by priestesses, the religious life of the family was in the hands of the father's wife
 
   
 
==Religion==
Religious rites, from birth to
 
death, focused around the worship of
+
Religion was matriarchal; the religion of Komos focused around the worship of
the goddess [[Kubebe]]. She was a
+
the goddess [[Kubebe]] a
mother-goddess, regarded as the source
+
mother-goddess, the source
of all life, animal and plant. In common
+
of all life, animal and plant. As a result religion was controlled by priestesses and the religious life of the family was in the hands of the father's wife
with similar religions, her followers
 
believed that each year the world died
 
as a result of the absence of their
 
goddess.
 
 
While explanations for this
 
departure might vary from region to
 
region, the result was constant: the
 
"death" of the world. This death
 
explained the passage of the seasons
 
and the infertility of fall and winter.
 
   
  +
Naturally, the Komans were aware that these beliefs could not be reconciled with the astronomical facts of their star system. However Kubebe could have chosen to create winter by the revolution of their planet around their star; if she desired, she could also see to it that winter continued, rather than turning into the spring, changing the course of their planet's orbit, or not?
Naturally, the Komans were
 
aware that these beliefs could not be
 
reconciled with the astronomical facts
 
of their star system. The stories were
 
regarded as having meaning only with
 
respect to the actions of their deity. If
 
Kubebe chose to create winter by the
 
revolution of their planet around their
 
star, so be it. If she desired, she could
 
also see to it that winter continued,
 
rather than turning into the spring. That
 
might mean changing the course of
 
their planet's orbit, or it might not —
 
who knew?
 
   
  +
Religious rites, from birth to death, focused on Kubebe. In common with similar religions, her followers believed that each year the world died as a result of the absence of their goddess. Only her return can resurrect the planet from winter and to ensure it even the most serious rituals of mourning, cleansing, reinvigoration, and finally rejoicing became a yearly cycle.
As Kubebe's absence killed their
 
planet, only her return could resurrect
 
it. To ensure that return even the most
 
serious rituals of mourning, cleansing,
 
reinvigoration, and finally rejoicing
 
became a yearly cycle. These rituals
 
were directed by a tribe's chief
 
priestess, who was seen as the link
 
between the goddess and the Komans.
 
   
  +
These rituals were directed by a tribe's chief priestess, the link between the goddess and the Komans. The planet had several primary training centers for priestesses, but there was only one higher-level school from which they graduated. There
Priestesses were trained at any of
 
several primary training centers, but
 
there was only one higher-level school
 
which graduated priestesses. There
 
 
they received an introduction into the
 
they received an introduction into the
 
training of the [[Bene Gesserit/DE|Bene Gesserit]]. All
 
training of the [[Bene Gesserit/DE|Bene Gesserit]]. All
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members of the order; it is probable
 
members of the order; it is probable
 
that the chief priestesses were all
 
that the chief priestesses were all
[[Reverend Mother/DE|Reverend Mother]]s.
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[[Reverend Mother/DE|Reverend Mothers]].
   
 
Considering their vital rote in
 
Considering their vital rote in
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Kubebe played an essential part in the
 
Kubebe played an essential part in the
 
Butlerian Jihad.
 
Butlerian Jihad.
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Komos, later known as Ix, is the ninth planet of the system of Eridani A. Initially a tributal of Richese, it spawned the Butlerian Jihad. It was isolated for centuries until joining the Imperium, discreetly trading technology with other worlds.

Surely one of the great ironies of history lies in the fact that the planet which conceived the anti-machine Jihad also birthed the supreme technology of Ix.

Features

  • diameter at equator: 40,000 kilometers
  • land area: 50%
  • freshwater lakes 10%,
  • salt oceans 40%.
  • polar ice: very restricted,
  • mean annual temperature: 22°,
    • average low: 2°,
    • average high: 34°.
  • planet average soil base: Unusually deep (5 to 8 meters)
  • Average annual rainfall: 1 meter.
  • Capital: Pylos

Planet is ideal for production of grain crops over much of surface; drier sections capable of sustaining large herds of grazing animals. Estimated annual production in excess of 100 billion bushels of various grains annual; livestock 200,000 head annually.

History

Komos was a province of its neighbor, Richese which controlled Komos through the threat of force: the population of Richese was close to 500 million, and their army was larger than the total population of Komos. Richese forbade Komos space vessels, while maintaining a sizable stellar army of its own.

Richese's domination of Komos was loose. Language, religion and language of Richese were not pressed on the Komans. Except for the collection of the tribute, Komos was left almost entirely alone. The citizens of Richese, when they thought of Komos at all, considered their exploitation to be benevolent and gentle, but the Komans did not think of their overlords so; the control of Komos was far less merciless than it might have been.

The limited presence of Richese in the lives of the Komans helped to make the burden of their servitude more bearable. Most of the population had no contact whatever with the government of Richese (unless they accompanied the tribute convoys into one of the district capitals after the harvest).

During the Butlerian Jihad

The farming technology of Komos had been computerized only at a very elementary level, it had not been destroyed in the first stages of the Great Revolt.

After the artificially induced abortion of their daughter, Sarah, caused by a thinking machine director of the hospital, Jehanne approached Urania, the priestess of Kubebe to create a movement against the domination by Richese, appalled by the evidence concerning the actions of the hospital director. Jehanne and her husband, Thet'r Butler, the Logistos of Xania formed the Front for the End of Koman Exploitation, a rebel organization against Richese.

During the tribute collection week they seized the tribute fleet for transport to Richese where they discovered the chief Richesan programmers and scientists had been mostly willing participants in the actions of the machines in altering the population of Komos. These revelations resulted (principally with the aid of Urania) to the Butlerian Jihad.

In the first stages of the Jihad, Komos was nearly deserted. In 198 BG, with the Jihad about to leave Richese for the far reaches of the galaxy, Jehanne Butler ordered those Richesans who did not choose to join her to be transported to Komos as a substantial number of the technicians and mechanics from Richese who survived the wars did. Most of these men and women, able to think and act for themselves, lived to form the basis for the new population of Komos.

The survival of those machines, as well as the astonishing fecundity of the planet, ensured the survival of many of the new settlers. So began the transition of agrarian Komos to highly technological Ix.

This population was provided with two great advantages.

  • First, the oddly isolated position of the system and planet, who were on the fringes of human settlement. The ravages of the Jihad, especially severe in the sector of Eridani A, resulted in even greater isolation. For several centuries after the Jihad those on Komos were cut off from contact with the rest of humanity (at first involuntarily but then by choice).
  • Second, the immediate riches of the vast agricultural development of Komos produced a life of ease for the inhabitants, who thus had leisure time in which to think and experiment. The resettled technicians and mechanics of Richese naturally turned to machine technology as one way to occupy their time, taking great care to avoid the development of population controlling machines. There was some early resistance to this technology, but as the decades passed and the planet remained alone in a forgotten corner of the universe, decisive steps in the rebirth of truly sophisticated technology were taken.

As Ix

Now the planet was known by its inhabitants as Ix (derived from an ancient system of reckoning which identified the number we know by the symbol 9 as IX)

By 110 BG, Aurelius Venport and Norma Cevna, pioneers in the field of interstellar travel to a point beyond the capabilities of the new technology, they were reluctantly forced to take their research elsewhere.

Within a century the universe healed from the Butlerian Jihad but was technologically devastated. The riches of Komos had combined with the benefits of the finest scientific work to make the planet unique in the universe: a center of scientific and technological research and development center. Of course all the scientific centers and industrial complexes were concealed underground, while the surface maintained the appearance of a bucolic world devoted to agriculture.

By 25 BG, the Ixians had begun to explore into the settled worlds in order to judge the state of civilization of the outer universe, and to ascertain if there was any threat to their anonymity. There was a consideration for trade in the fields of technology but the feeling regarding the Jihad and computing machines prevented this. The deliberate isolation of Ix continued until the first century of the rule of House Corrino.

Their anonymity was threatened once the Spacing Guild reintroduced space travel into common use; in time their system would attract the attention of an expansionary society, and Ix would be destroyed once their machines were discovered. In order to avoid annihilation, the Ixians made the first move themselves and cautiously sent an ambassador to Emperor Saudir I in 55 AG, a daring and risky move, like the Spacing Guild did some decades ago.

In the Imperium

Saudir was shocked with this new information, but the possibilities became obvious: If a controlled source of technology were available to the Imperial house, the Guild, and the Great Houses, they could have the advantages of machines without their dangers to the sociopolitical system. Any solution, such as any one of the powers of the Imperium seizing control of Ix, would destabilize the Imperium.

The two sides arranged that Ix would remain isolated; the Guild would make certain that no unapproved visitors reached the system of Eridani A. The Ixians would continue to exploit Richese and Richese would become the manufacturing center for Ix. The interests of all parties were served by these balanced concessions.

Under the Atreides

After the defeat of House Corrino by the Atreides and the subsequent ascension of Leto II Atreides, became increasingly public but changed a little. Leto's attitude toward Ix was at least as ambiguous as that of other powers whose existence Leto permitted.

During the last few centuries of Leto's reign, however, the policies of the emperor underwent a subtle but consistent change. Leto ceased to enforce so strictly the ban against thinking machines, and began to use certain Ixian products himself which would have been anathema in his early reign. Ix was also tacitly permitted to begin investigation and experimentation with machines which had the potential to replace Guild navigators. The scientists of Ix believed that Leto was unaware of their progress on these constructions who was clandestinely assisting them by providing them with certain necessary ores and alloys through private channels which the Ixians believed to be their own discovery.

Societal structure

Most of the population remained at home on ranch or farm. The Komans were obdurately rural. Since the only state the Komans knew was Richese, they recognized no state. The most important political unit on Komos was also the chief social unit: the family.

Komos was ruled by the Exarch, a planetary governor appointed by Richese to rule at the discretion of the home government who also was given a small garrison, although the domination of Komos did not depend upon actual military force;

The Exarch was charged with few responsibilities by the home government, since nothing was more important than the sow of grain and livestock from Komos. Since Richese produced no foodstuffs itself, the population depended for its very existence on the bounty provided by their province. Beyond the office of Exarch, the planet was divided into ten administrative districts, whose bureaucratic chiefs were called "Logistoi". Each Logistos was chosen from the population of the administrative district he directed.

The Komans thought of the family as an organic entity, to be cared for in the same way that their land or crops were tended or cultivated. The future of each family was based on the resources of the adults and their ancestors, and that future achieved form and life in their children. Fathers retained control of the lives of their progeny until their death. An adult individual was considered fully independent for the first time, when his father died.

Koman women had no legal status; they could not appear in court or inherit without the appointment of a guardian, however they possessed great powers within the family and society at large. The religion of Komos was controlled by priestesses and similarly, the religious life of the family was in the hands of the father's wife. Just as every male hoped to head his own family one day, so every young woman hoped to guide the sacred well-being of her family.

The only other social entity worthy of note was the tribe, composed by members descended from one certain common male ancestor. They shared certain religious observances and a common burial ground. Each tribe had a chief priestesses.

Religion

Religion was matriarchal; the religion of Komos focused around the worship of the goddess Kubebe a mother-goddess, the source of all life, animal and plant. As a result religion was controlled by priestesses and the religious life of the family was in the hands of the father's wife

Naturally, the Komans were aware that these beliefs could not be reconciled with the astronomical facts of their star system. However Kubebe could have chosen to create winter by the revolution of their planet around their star; if she desired, she could also see to it that winter continued, rather than turning into the spring, changing the course of their planet's orbit, or not?

Religious rites, from birth to death, focused on Kubebe. In common with similar religions, her followers believed that each year the world died as a result of the absence of their goddess. Only her return can resurrect the planet from winter and to ensure it even the most serious rituals of mourning, cleansing, reinvigoration, and finally rejoicing became a yearly cycle.

These rituals were directed by a tribe's chief priestess, the link between the goddess and the Komans. The planet had several primary training centers for priestesses, but there was only one higher-level school from which they graduated. There they received an introduction into the training of the Bene Gesserit. All priestesses were at least qualified members of the order; it is probable that the chief priestesses were all Reverend Mothers.

Considering their vital rote in Komos' social history, it is not surprising that Urania, the priestesses of Kubebe played an essential part in the Butlerian Jihad.