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	Murbella - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Murbella goes through a manic phase after becoming a Reverend Mother, and her feelings for Duncan are not the same — a fact that worries Odrade as much as Duncan.
		Murbella's ascension to the leadership of the Honored Matres and, by necessity, the Bene Gesserit as well, is not accepted as victory by all the Bene Gesserit.
		Murbella recognises their plan at the last minute, but is powerless to stop them, realizing at the same time that Duncan's departure solves many problems for her.
	www.medbib.com /Murbella (803 words)

	Dune7: Advent
		Murbella was at the desk in her study, attempting to analyse the implications of what she had learnt the past few days.
		Murbella watched the full-figured Reverend Mother rising from her seat and walking to the front of the crowd, observing how she intentionally moved slowly, attempting to create a situation in which she was the one dictating the course of the meeting, instead of submitting to the whims of her audience.
		Murbella broke out in panic and tried to move away, but the terrible darkness was upon her in an instant and swallowed her.
	www.usul.net /fandom/advent7.htm (4605 words)

	Hunters of Dune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second plot involves Murbella's attempts to unite the Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres, while conquering rebellious factions of Honored Matres on various planets and attempting to prepare for a confrontation with an Ancient Enemy.
		Meanwhile, Murbella is trying to prevent civil war on Chapterhouse, the only known source of melange ('the spice') left in the universe (other than the sandworms on the no-ship).
		Murbella contracts Ix's competitor Richese to provide as many armed ships and weaponry as possible, in preparation for the confrontation with the unknown enemy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunters_of_Dune (1894 words)

	Dune7: Advent
		Murbella glanced at her desk, and saw the stacks of files there, still waiting to be read, begging to be approved or otherwise processed by the Mother Superior.
		Murbella knew the work was important, and she assured herself she would eventually catch up with the recently increased workload, but at that moment a different priority emerged: the need to eat.
		Murbella was upholding a tradition, one she rather enjoyed because it gave her access to sources of information about the atmosphere in Central other than her personal advisors, and allowed her to maintain a connection with her lower-ranked sisters.
	www.usul.net /fandom/advent6.htm (6029 words)

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		Murbella lay with a blue towel across her forehead, green eyes staring up at the comeyes.
		Murbella resented the constant watch over her but she had come to an accommodation with it.
		A simple word can be enough." Murbella, her oval face drawn into a look of distaste, the wide-set green eyes intent, obviously thought Odrade referred to some common signal, a word or saying the Sisters used in such situations.
	www14.brinkster.com /fumadoe/dune/Dune_6_chapterhouse_dune.txt (21299 words)

	Chapter House Dune Review
		Murbella survives the Spice Agony and becomes a Reverend Mother despite her former Honored Matre training.
		She joined the two organizations together with Murbella in charge but she must have seen how dangerous this would be.
		Soon Murbella would be assassinated by the next Honored Matre in line and the new combined organization would then be ruled by an Honored Matre.
	www.goldkeys.com /ScienceFiction/reviews/0441102670.html (1615 words)

	welcome to paul edmund norman's the gateway
		Murbella had an ever-present question on her mind: 'In what direction shall I lead my Sisters?' This new sisterhood had the potential of all the greatness of both the Bene Gesserit and the Honored Matres, but the leader was being crushed by the options open to her.
		Murbella's trial would become a core study of her new established Fish Speaker School, and would eventually lend itself to the practices of Persona Shifting and Multilive Individuals as they were today.
		Murbella began to notice the way in which Harkonnen had possessed Alia--but somehow--could not notice that Alia was overtaking her.
	www.gatewaymonthly.com /504dunerev.html (1758 words)

	welcome to paul edmund norman's the gateway
		Murbella is her own brand of artiste, the wild strain demands that she be.
		She saw herself with Murbella, across the bounds of the pocket of the multiverse that held Dune Revenant.
		Murbella walked through Chapterhouse, that was looking more like a battleground than the home of the sisterhood.
	www.gatewaymonthly.com /704dunerev.html (1983 words)

	Hunters of Dune The Ultimate Review « memoirs on a rainy day
		Murbella is trying to unite the fractioned alliance between the Sisters and the Honored Matres.
		Murbella cloaks her plans in a show of parley with Hellica, the Honored Matres in charge of Tleilax.
		Murbella maps the state of the galaxy with the worlds destroyed by the Honored Matres and the one destroyed by the machines by scourges.
	range.wordpress.com /2006/08/27/hunters-of-dune-the-ultimate-review (7284 words)

	Murbella (Arrakeen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		What do you think of Murbella, I beleive she was one of the best characters made by FH, her love for a man forced her to live in a virtual prison.
		Murbella has become one of the most interesting and important characters in the whole series...
		But onto the topic at hand, there was a movie made about Murbella and her profession as an Honoured Matre it is called Pretty Woman, you know where the really smart sexy rich guy falls for the hooker.....
	s10.invisionfree.com /Dune_Forum/ar/t110.htm (1668 words)

	Ending of Chapterhouse and Murbella (Arrakeen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Murbella can and is already starting to overcome her love for Duncan, and no HM will kill her as she's their Great HM by their own rules(by killing the previous one).
		Murbella DID subvert the Bene Gesserit, that's why Garimi and the other Reverend Mothers left with Sheeana.
		I think Murbella's Bene Gesserit will become absorbed by the Honored Matres. If whatever they become survives the union of the two groups they will be exactly what the BG needed, to finally have the power to step into the forground in politics and openly sieze control...
	s10.invisionfree.com /Dune_Forum/ar/t955.htm (2900 words)

	Chapterhouse Dune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meanwhile, Murbella collapses under the pressure of Bene Gesserit training and pregnancy, giving in to "word weapons" that the Bene Gesserit planted to undermine her earlier Honored Matre identity.
		Murbella saves as much of the Bene Gesserit force as she can and they begin to withdraw to Chapterhouse.
		Murbella's ascension to the leadership of the Honored Matres and the Bene Gesserit is not accepted as victory by all the Bene Gesserit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chapterhouse:_Dune (2455 words)

	welcome to paul edmund norman's the gateway
		Before the Spice Dreaming technique could be employed to mine the past for truth of actions, Murbella's merger of the Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres was viewed as a result of the impending threat of the Master Face Dancers returned from the Scattering.
		Murbella was led to an ancient concept for which she appropriated the name Fish Speaker School.
		Murbella's focused on this time as the dawn of some integration between her two peoples.
	www.gatewaymonthly.com /904dunerev.html (1241 words)

	You are now entering science fiction land ... \| Gristmill: The environmental news blog \| Grist Magazine
		It does to me. And all the trouble made me read a little more closely this week, when I stumbled over an interesting passage in a new science fiction novel currently on the bestseller list.
		Murbella walked farther from the fortresslike Keep, putting it behind her, and all her responsibilities with it.
		In the encroaching desert ahead of her, and the faltering orchards behind her, Murbella saw two great Bene Gesserit dreams crashing into each other like opposing tides, a beginning absorbing an ending...
	gristmill.grist.org /print/2006/9/14/172747/962?show_comments=no (488 words)

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		Murbella listened to a Bene Gesserit Proctor working through her list of arguments detailing why she felt Murbella's plan would be effective in principle, but needed a few modifications to be able to achieve the desired effect in full.
		Apparently this was a name she had chosen for herself, referring to an obscure myth about a woman who became a witch, ate her children, poisoned her husband and conquered an entire planet before disappearing forever, reportedly to another plane of reality.
		The smile that shaped Donelid's lips suggested she had an agenda of her own, at once mocking Murbella by insinuating there were things even she didn't know, and commending the Mother Superior for performing her role so well in a plan eclipsing her own.
	www.usul.net /fandom/marco/advent_24_b2_c03.html (2277 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		They are a mixture of Bene Gesserits and Honored Matres, led by Murbella in Chapterhouse.
		A third faction did not like the way Murbella was leading them so they formed a rebel group in the northern region of Chapterhouse.
		At first the Bene Gesserits and the Honored Matres did not mix well, they always separated themselves, for example whenever Murbella had a speech, the Bene Gesserits would stand at one side of the room, and the Honored Matres stood on the other side of the room.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=New_Sisterhood (264 words)

	Frank Herbert's seventh Dune novel
		It is after they have escaped that Murbella realizes that Sheeana will instrumental in the next step of the universe and sees her in the line of Muad'Dib, the Tyrant, and the combined Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, resulting in "The bitter medicine of a Sheeana future".
		At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune, Murbella is left behind on Chapterhouse, as being the joined head of both the Bene Gesserit and the Honoured Matres, who outnumber the Bene Gesserit at least tenthousand times.
		But most clearly, Murbella is aware of the bitter medicine of a Sheeana future, and one of her goals should be to prepare the Bene Gesserit for this medicine, which might proof to be a bigger challenge than merging the two sisterhoods together.
	www.iwriteiam.nl /Dune7.html (2987 words)

	Chapterhouse:Dune
		They are [multiplying] like rabbits still in their no-ship prison and the BG sisterhood takes away the babies hoping to find genetic markers that they haven't seen before (continuing on in their quest for a perfect human).
		Odrade sees this and passes her sisterhoods internal lifetimes on to Murbella after completing her training and watching her go through the spice agony.
		In the end, the melting pot is achieved thanks to Odrade's manipulations and Murbella's Honored Matre's training.
	www.angelfire.com /mn2/greatthings/chapterhouse.html (510 words)

	Hunters of Dune \| Book Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		A process of amalgamating the two orders was just starting, under the direction of Mother Commander Murbella, a former Honored Matre herself, who had also been the lover of famed Atreides retainer Duncan Idaho.
		Murbella faces violent dissension among her mingled followers.
		Big set pieces—the attack led by Murbella on Tleilaxu; the escape by the Ithaca from a treacherous planet—alternate with more intimate moments, such as the coming together of Duncan and Sheeana.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/sfw13488.html (900 words)

	Dune Chapterhouse Summary
		She also tries to win Duncan Idaho and Murbella help by converting this last into a Bene Gesserit but Duncan resents the Bene Gesserit for many reasons and does not totally trust them, especially because he has recovered his previous lives memories and now is a Mentat.
		After having shared with Sheeana and Murbella, Odrade goes to Junction accompanied by Tamalane, Dortjula and Suipol and acolyte that is nearing the Agony (process through which a Bene Gesserit regains her past memories).In Junction, Odrade is surprised by the Honoured Matres attitude as Dama wants negotiate, something she did not expect at all.
		In a desperate last gamble, Murbella reaches Junction alone and manages to kill Logno thus converting herselfthe new Great Honoured Matre but Odrade is also killed in the battle and she converts herself in the Bene Gesserit Mother Superior.
	www.shvoong.com /books/4926-dune-chapterhouse (727 words)

	Cave Of Birds -> The end
		I got really confused at the end of chapterhouse can someone explain who daniel and marty were, what side was murbella really on, who were the ones with many faces and what duncan had in mind
		Daniel en Marty, what they are, we don't know, we can guess and I would say that they are some kind of face dancerers, an evolved race from The Scattering.
		Murbella was defenitly formed by the Bene Gesserit and as she now takes command of both Bene gesserit and Honored Matres i think she'll forge them into a single organisation, to defend against the unknown threads....
	s2.invisionfree.com /Cave_of_Birds/index.php?showtopic=70 (289 words)

	Amazon.com: Hunters of Dune: Books: Brian Herbert,Kevin J. Anderson,Scott Brick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		One can get a general idea of who "the enemy" is based on the plots and counterplots, alliances and counter-alliances, but one is not taken up with the notion that one side is much more admirable than the other.
		Murbella does not hesitate to kill viciously any and all who oppose her.
		And as the alliances shift back and forth, engaging in increasingly more violent carnage, Duncan Idaho and his fellow travelers continue to wander through the universe in their stolen no-ship, performing experiments of their own.
	www.amazon.com /Hunters-Dune-Brian-Herbert/dp/1593979754 (2243 words)

	Cait's Oz: Terri's cerebral cortex has NOT been replaced with spinal fluid \| discarded lies
		IF terri is "minimally conscious" as some have said, and has voluntary control over eye movement and other muscle groups, why has no one taught her a gestural protocol in 16 years?
		Hammesfahr's mandate was to find out whether she had the potential to improve.
		murbella, I have no idea why you're so apparently hostile to the idea that Terri's in there, but she's in there.
	discardedlies.com /entry/?2976 (2927 words)

	JiggerBug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		After two prequel trilogies to the legendary SF epic (the Legends of Dune and Prelude to Dune series), Frank Herbert's son Brian, in collaboration with Anderson, launch a new trilogy that takes up where Herbert Sr.
		This entertaining if over-the-top update begins three years after the refugee "no-ship," Ithaca, has fled Chapterhouse and the brutal Honored Matres, a corrupted faction of the all-female Bene Gesserit order led by Mother Commander Murbella.
		Duncan Idaho, Murbella's ex-love slave, guides the ship carrying reincarnated warrior Miles Teg, the dissident Rev. Mother Sheeana and 150 other refugees.
	www.jiggerbug.com /4945/hunters-of-dune-part-1.html (346 words)

	Chapterhouse Dune (spoilers!!!) - Message Board - ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Another is the ghola-child, or clone, of the military mastermind Miles Teg, who demonstrates the uncanny speed of the Honoured Matres themselves.
		Most valuable of all may be the captive Honoured Matre Murbella.
		Odrade has used the technique to bond Murbella to the ghola of Duncan Idaho, whose suspected Mentat abilities would make him another Kwizatz haderach, as dangerously uncontrollable as Paul Muad'Dib.
	p210.ezboard.com /fahirashangarfrm38.showMessage?topicID=4.topic (483 words)

	Duncan, Sheeana, & Murbella refresh my memory -- DUNE Novels Discussion Board
		It's been a while since I read Chapterhouse and heretics, and from what I remember, at the end of Heretics, Duncan Idaho (being the male equivalent of an honored matre [as well as a sword master, and mentat]) sexually bonds himself to Murbella the Honored matre who does the same in turn.
		But I've read several posts that have talked about Duncan and Sheeana's progeny (not to be confused with Duncan and Siona's prgeny).
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	www.voy.com /140609/3/276.html (172 words)

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