re: Having a hard time getting into Dune

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Duke Atreidis is on alert of the Harkonens trying to get back in Arakis and he totally whiffs on this hole in his armor?????

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One, a lot of people in his inner circle have been hurt by the Harkkonens and that is why they are so loyal to the Duke.

Lady Jessica and Yueh have a discussion about his wife Wanna at some point, to which Jessica intuits that Wanna is dead and that the Harkkonens were responsible.


Two, the Suk school conditioning is considered unbreakable, so there is no reason to suspect him.

The Baron figured out that he could use Yueh’s love for Wanna to break the conditioning but had to keep that very quiet and dispose of Yueh afterward lest that open a massive can of worms. Hence why he created the perception that the traitor was Lady Jessica to various people inside and outside the situation as misdirection.