MILES TEG

'Miles Teg' is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.
In ''Heretics of Dune'', Miles Teg is introduced as the former Supreme Bashar of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. He is charged with the weapons training of ghola Duncan Idaho by Taraza, the Mother Superior of the Bene Gesserit. His mother Janet Roxbrough, a Bene Gesserit, taught him some of the ways of the Sisterhood before he was sent to Lampadas to train as a Mentat.

Miles Teg was a military genius and became Supreme Bashar of the Bene Gesserit, winning many victories. He had a very strong sense of honor, loyalty, and had the many characteristics of House Atreides. He is well known for doing the unexpected. He also is not a melange addict, not even resorting to the spice at old age (296 at the start of Heretics of Dune) when most others wish to extend their life.

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Heretics of Dune

Chapterhouse: Dune

Heretics of Dune

In ''Heretics of Dune'', Miles Teg was ordered to take over the weapons training of the Bene Gesserit Duncan Idaho ghola after he retired to his farm for a long time. When the Bene Gesserit Keep was stormed by the Bene Tleilax, he, the Duncan Idaho ghola and Reverend Mother Lucilla escaped into hiding in a Harkonnen no-globe discovered by his aide, Patrin. He awoke Idaho's original memories, and arranged to be rescued by his favorite student, Burzmali. They were intercepted, and Teg stayed behind, giving Lucilla and Idaho time to attempt escape. Teg was captured by the Honored Matres.

Teg was later tortured by the Honored Matres using a T-Probe. Under the severe stress and agony produced by the probe's attempts to gain control of his body and his knowledge; his mentat abilities and Atreides genes elevated him to a higher level of being. He was able to move faster than the eye could see and gained mild prescience which he described as a doubled vision which gave him intimations of danger. His accelerated speed came at the cost of incredible energy expenditure; he had to consume huge amounts of carbohydrates to regain his energy. After escaping his captors he found that his safe-house had been taken over by Honored Matres, who attempted to gain his allegiance. Seeing the terrible state their constant drive for power and contempt for the masses had lowered them to, he used his incredible speed to slaughter them and escaped once more. At the end of the book, he gathered a force of veterans who had served under him on previous campaigns from the bars of Ysai (formerly Barony) and managed to capture a no-ship from the Scattering using his tactical genius and new abilities. He then took the ship to Rakis to meet up with Sheeana and Darwi Odrade. The vast slaughter he had inflicted on the Honored Matres provoked an immense reaction from them, and they obliterated Rakis, turning the entire planet into a charred ball in order to be certain of killing him.

Chapterhouse: Dune

At the beginning of ''Chapterhouse Dune'', a ghola of Teg was birthed at his daughter, Darwi Odrade's orders. The Mother Superior Darwi Odrade wanted to use Teg's military abilities to defeat the upcoming threat of the Honored Matres. The Bene Gesserit later reawakened him to his full memories prematurely by using Reverend Mother Sheeana to imprint him. Under the intense stress caused by sexual imprinting to him because of the Bene Gesserit conditioning he received from his mother during his original life's childhood, some of Miles Teg's latent Atreides abilities awoke in ''Heretics of Dune'' and were unlocked once more; he moved with blinding speed, had a unique form of prescience, could sense immediate danger from people, and also had the ability to see no-ships.

Given that he accomplished all of the foregoing without undergoing any form of the spice agony, it left open the question of what level his abilities could rise to with spice agony.
Miles Teg led the final assault upon the Honored Matres, but was captured when the Honored Matres pretended to surrender. After Murbella successfully succeeded to the position of Great Honored Matre and Mother Superior, he was released and joined Sheeana, Duncan Idaho on their trip on the ''Ithaca''.

Miles Teg represents an exquisite product of the eugenic program of the Bene Gesserit and their meticulous training. Miles Teg is an Atreides and bears a striking resemblance to Duke Leto Atreides I not only in his appearance but in his strict sense of honor. Mother Superior Darwi Odrade is his daughter.