Creativity!
Always dangerous to entrenched power. Always coming up with something new. New things could destroy the grip of authority. Even the Bene Gesserit approached creativity with misgivings. ... The trouble was that creative ones tended to welcome backwaters. They called it privacy.
(Chapterhouse: Dune, p. 243)
This is why Odrade knew how important Duncan was to their plans. They needed his creativity. They needed to make sure they didn't get stuck in old patterns of behavior. They needed the element of surprise!
Further down on this same page was a reference to "HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLE DISEASES". This came from a "simulflow" Odrade, an Atreides, had during a conversation with Streggi. It amazes me that either Frank Herbert had envisioned this as the first place we would meet Raquella, daughter of Vor Atreides and founder of what became the Bene Gesserit, or that Brian Herbert thought to weave this in to the prequel story. The ability to make connections over eons amazes me. The only other author I have known to be able to tell a story over such an expanse of time is James Michener, especially in The Source.
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