Chapter 289: Monopoly of spices! Mentat is unemployed after graduation?

Chapter 289 Monopoly of spices! Mentat is unemployed after graduation? The merit of following the dragon!

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Rakadan planet, surface!

After Leto took the spaceship back to the Atreides Manor, he returned to the internal conference room. He sat in a chair in silence, frowning, and seemed to be worried.

Seeing this, the Atreides executives around him suddenly became a little restless. Could it be that the negotiation did not reach a cooperation!

After a long while, Hawat stepped forward and asked Leto: "Duke, what did the Universal Corporation say?"

Ever since Hawat saw the shield technology of the Universal Corporation, he has had a strong desire to cooperate with the corporation.

As a Mentat with extremely high military attainments, Hawat knew very well what this shield technology meant to the Atreides family!

If the Atreides family can obtain this advanced shield technology, let alone the small Harkonnen family, even if the Corino royal family comes, they will have to kneel down to the Atreides family.

From now on, the Atreides family will become the head of the imperial family, and even the Corino royal family can only be inferior to them.

Even if they can't get this shield technology, as long as they reach a cooperative relationship with the Universal Corporation, the strength of the fleet of the Universal Corporation is enough for the Atreides family to walk sideways in the Galactic Empire.

So at this moment, Hawat is eager to know the results of the negotiation between Leto and the Universal Corporation.

Facing the eager eyes of the crowd, Duke Leto raised his head, sighed lightly, and said with a little worry: "The executive of the Universal Corporation wants to be the emperor of the empire!"

As soon as the voice fell, the whole conference room suddenly became quiet, and everyone's brain suddenly buzzed and fell into a shutdown state.

Some of them looked stunned and terrified, some were thoughtful, and some were happy, trying to follow the giant enterprise to overthrow the rule of the Corino royal family.

But then again, colluding with other civilizations to seize power is a rebellious act.

Betting on the fate of the Atreides family and seizing power with the Universal Corporation, wouldn’t it be too dangerous!

If this goes wrong, the Atreides family will be exterminated.

"Don't stare at me, this is just one of the requirements of the Universal Corporation."

Duke Leto shook his head helplessly and continued to tell everyone the news that the giant enterprise also wanted to get Arrakis and control the spices.

Of course, it also included the interest exchange and redistribution of the imperial power proposed by Song Zhaomei.

After listening to these contents, Hawat's expression changed from worry to joy. In his opinion, this is a great opportunity for the revival of the Atreides family!

As a pure humanoid computer Mentate, Hawat only stands from the perspective of family interests and gives advice to Duke Leto.

If they can reach a cooperation with the Universal Corporation, the Atreides Family will get quite a lot.

Even if Leon, the executive who supports the Universal Corporation, becomes the emperor and becomes the lackey of the Universal Corporation, and destroys other families, what can he do?

At worst, they will redistribute and reshuffle, but this time, the host is the Universal Corporation and the Atreides Family.

I would rather die than die, as long as the Atreides Family does not suffer!

But at this moment, the person who has a completely opposite state of mind to Hawat is Leto's wife, Lady Jessica.

The news that the executive of the Universal Corporation wants to be the emperor of the galaxy is like a bolt from the blue to her.

Jessica is Paul's biological mother and a senior member of the Sisterhood. She accepted the order of the organization and gave birth to a child for Duke Leto.

The purpose is for the breeding plan of the Sisterhood!

The breeding plan of the sisterhood is to specifically select the top dignitaries as the target, combine with them to give birth to children, and finally cultivate the legendary "King of Prophecy".

Of course, their breeding is not random, but has a certain principle.

Under the stimulation of spices, the mother who has been eating spices since childhood, plus the genes of the father, can make the child awaken the memory of the maternal ancestors and the paternal ancestors.

Once this gene lock is opened, it is equivalent to the child automatically inheriting the memory and wisdom of all the awesome people in the two families, and the child will become a human being almost like a "god".

It has the computing power of the humanoid computer Mentate, the ability to predict the future like a navigator, and a strong sound control!

Since there has been no real uprising of the lower class in the Dune universe, their class IQ and knowledge are very different.

All the smart people are gathered in the dignitaries, and the lower class is pure cattle and horses, with the same consumable human resources.

Therefore, the members of the sisterhood will specifically pick the elites of the dignitaries to reproduce with them.

After all, only by doing so can we ensure that the quality of our own seeds is good enough and the defect rate is low.

For the powerful people in the major families, the sisterhood is like a high-end private customization, and all the girls they like can be customized.

This service is simply awesome, so they enjoy it.

And the sisterhood also relied on this well-known service quality, slowly walked into the backstage of the major families, and became a force that cannot be ignored.

However, the ultimate goal of the sisterhood is not entirely to make the mother noble by the son, but to tinker with the king of prophecy-Quisatz Haderak, which is their ultimate goal.

For thousands of years, the sisterhood's breeding program has been carried out "secretly" among major families. The powerful are plowing the fields with all their strength, and the sisterhood members are also holding on to the quilt and working hard.

Finally, the son Paul created by Mrs. Jessica has great hope of becoming the one-of-a-kind "savior" and the king of prophecy!

And this time, among the envoys who were about to come to the Atreides family to read Emperor Shadam's will, there was the Virgin Helen of the Sisterhood.

The position of the Madonna of the Sisterhood is equivalent to the top leader of the organization. To put it bluntly, she is the Madam. Helen is not only the Madonna of this session, but also the teacher of Lady Jessica.

The main purpose of Helen's trip was to examine whether Paul, the seed, had the qualifications to become Quesaz Hadrak.

However, at this critical juncture, the emergence of a global giant completely disrupted the sisterhood's plan.

The executives of giant companies not only have to be emperors, but also redistribute and rectify the power structure of the empire.

This is equivalent to sweeping away pornography, including girls and clients. All previous breeding progress has been suspended, and their greatest plan to create a baby has been ruined!

Without the support of their sponsors, what else would their sisterhood have to carry out its breeding program.

After all, the sisterhood does not participate in labor and create value in essence. They mainly depend on the powerful class and rely on selling their beauty to obtain resources in order to carry out breeding programs.

If the CEO of a giant company in the world really becomes the emperor and rules the Galactic Empire, then the sisterhood, an assisted dating organization that has lasted for thousands of years, will also come to an end!

At this moment, Mrs. Jessica was very tangled and felt embarrassed.

At the same time, she felt lucky that her son Paul was no longer bound by fate and could live according to his inner wishes.

On the other hand, they are worried about the failure of the sisterhood's breeding plan, and even the imminent collapse and disintegration of the sisterhood.

As a member of the sisterhood, breeding and giving birth to a savior is their duty and their only belief in this life.

This concept has long been ingrained in their hearts, and it is impossible to change it. This is why Mrs. Jessica is worried.

At this time, Jessica lowered her head, concealing her inner panic. The sisterhood itself did not have absolute violent power.

They have neither a decent army nor powerful enough weapons, so resorting to inferior methods such as assassination will not help the situation at all.

‘Is it possible… that the sisterhood would assign members to executives of giant companies around the world and then start the breeding program again? ! ’

A new thought arose in Mrs. Jessica's heart.

But the only problem is that she doesn't know whether the executives of giant companies are willing to accept the customized services provided by the sisterhood.

While Lady Jessica was deep in thought, Duke Leto and Hawat were still discussing specific matters of cooperation.

"They actually want the entire Arrakis and control the spice business. This is really greedy, but... it's not impossible."

Hawat was stunned for a moment, but after thinking for a moment, he quickly realized that something was wrong:

"Arrakis is the only place of origin for spices. If the world's giant companies take complete control of Arrakis and monopolize the spices, our route system will completely collapse!"

Hearing this, Mrs. Jessica on the side was also suddenly startled, biting her lips tightly, and the panic in her heart deepened.

Spices are not only related to interstellar navigation, but the members of their sisterhood also need spices to cultivate truth masters who use their voices to control people's behavior.

Without the spice of Arrakis and the professional skill of voice control, the sisterhood's only advantage would be gone!

On the surface, the senior members of the sisterhood are privately-ordered aristocratic concubines, but they are really not pure vases, little characters to be manipulated.

In most families, the members of the sisterhood also have a certain say in the family. After all, they are one of the hostesses.

But once the spices are controlled and prohibited from being provided to them, the entire sisterhood will cease to exist. This is to cut off their livelihood!

For a moment, Mrs. Jessica had to wonder whether the giants of the world were targeting the Sisters. On the surface, they were uniting with the Atreides family, but in fact they were attacking the Sisters.

"They're going to give us a device for calculating flight trajectories."

Duke Leto shook his head in amazement and told everyone about the amazing achievements of the world's giant companies in AI and artificial intelligence, as well as the information about the bonuses of many technological points.

"This device has specific programs and protection devices as protection, which can prevent others from using this device to intercept data and create artificial intelligence."

Leto's words did not make Hawat relax his vigilance. He rolled his eyes thoughtfully, as if thinking about the rationality of it.

In fact, Hawat's attitude towards AI is quite open-minded, but spices are about more than just interstellar navigation.

Due to the strict prohibition of AI in the Galactic Empire, this resulted in the scientific research work of various departments of the empire, as well as a huge amount of paperwork and data storage requiring many portals to complete.

Each of these gates is the empire's information storage. Their minds are filled with the empire's information and secrets.

Once the supply of spices is cut off and the professional group Mentate disappears, who will organize and collect the future work and materials.

If AI devices are used to replace navigators, then other AI devices will most likely be used to replace the work of Mentat, even if it is by "skirting the edge" and bypassing the legal procedures prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence.

Then the question is, if there is a failure of the AI ​​device in the future, or any other problems, can we go to the Universal Corporation for help every time!

How much resources and work efficiency will be wasted by the time wasted back and forth.

This ridiculous practice of covering one's ears and stealing the bell seems to make sense on the surface, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, you will find that it does not work at all.

The most important thing is that once the supply of spices is cut off, the Mentat group will also come to an end.

This makes Hawat a little worried about the employment direction of these Mentat.

Good guy, before choosing this major, everyone said that you can make a lot of money and become a staff member in the home of the nobles, but as soon as you graduate, you find that they have started to use AI? Catching up with the times is a black profit!

Graduation is unemployment, right, so angry!

Hawat was worried that these Mentat would be instigated by people with ulterior motives to cause trouble and revolt, which would be troublesome.

"The Universal Corporation gave us AI devices and also monopolized the mining rights of spices. Their meaning is very clear, that is, they hope that we will accept AI and computer technology."

Hawat's expression became heavier than ever before. He knew very well what the emergence of AI meant to the major families and empires.

Once the Universal Corporation controlled the spices, special professional groups such as Mentat, navigators, and truth masters would be constrained by the corporation.

The political structure and ideology of the Galactic Empire would undergo a drastic change, but even so, the arrival of AI artificial intelligence could not be stopped.

Because this is the only way for humans in the Dune universe to connect to the real future. If they miss it, they can only hold on to the original old system and reshuffle and restart.

"My Lord Duke, I think we can totally accept it!"

At this time, Hawat changed the subject and said in a resounding voice: "If we don't cooperate with the Universal Corporation, the best possible outcome for our Atreides family is the decline of the family."

"From now on, you can only stay on Caladan, your political status will plummet, and you may even be labeled a rebel!"

"But if you choose to cooperate with the Universal Corporation, then the Atreides family will be the first family in the empire, and you will lead the Atreides to the road of true revival."

This account is easy to calculate.

The Universal Corporation controls absolutely violent weapons such as antimatter shields, hard light shields, and energy shields. A single expeditionary fleet can turn into a natural disaster and flatten the entire Galactic Empire.

Even if they resist, there is no great significance. It is nothing more than adding the casualties of hundreds of billions of the people of the empire.

But if the Atreides family chooses to surrender at this time and participate in the distribution of interests and the shaping of the political landscape of the giant enterprise, then they will get the credit of following the dragon and be the best vested beneficiaries!

Since the Atreides family now has a 100% chance of getting promoted by clinging to someone powerful, they certainly shouldn't miss it.