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| - This message told Byers that the man the Lone Gunmen were there to save was indeed a murderer but there was another man who was innocent. Although it was a longshot, Jimmy Bond decided to place his trust in the prison trustee and it paid off. (The Lone Gunmen: Maximum Byers)
- Considered traitors by other humans, trustees were sometimes either egotistical individuals or simply misinformed and brain-washed humans. Trustees could ascend in ranks and some were judged adequate enough to be transformed into cymeks. The trustees and their trustfulness was the object of a wager between Erasmus and Omnius. Erasmus proposed Omnius to randomly select some loyal trustees, and himself would demonstrate that he could turn them against the thinking machines. Omnius however warned Erasmus that if he was proven right and the humans indeed proved untrustful, he would vehemently order their extinction, to Erasmus' dismay, since he would have no experiments. The wage however turned against Omnius and a rebellion on Earth started, which sparked the Butlerian Jihad. During the war, Omnius sent trustees to act as spies in the League Worlds, although cautiously, so that 'exposure' to free humanity would not turn the spies against Omnius. Humans that allied with the machines were often lured with offers of immortality, by as becoming neo-cymeks or receiving a life extension treatment. The existence of spies haunted the League. The concept was a quick and easy accusation used by the Jipol against the political enemies of Iblis Ginjo or Protestants against the Jihad.
- A trustee is a person who holds property on behalf of a beneficiary.
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