this moment had been almost nine dosadi generations in preparation : the careful breeding of a specific individual who carried in one body the talents required for this assault on `` x , '' the exquisitely detailed education of that weapon-in-fleshly-form ... and there 'd been all the rest of it - whispers , unremarked observations in clandestine leaflets , help for people who held particular ideas and elimination of others whose concepts obstructed , the building of a rim-warren communications network , the slow and secret assembly of a military force to match the others which balanced themselves at the peaks of dosadi power ... all of these things and much more had prepared the way for those numbers introduced into her computer terminal .