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* The Ordos is led by a group of four mechanically-conjoined rulers known as the Executrix - all of whom share a [[HiveMind single mind.]] Their sole representative is the Speaker, a [[HumanoidAbomination cyborg...man thing]] that [[VoiceOfTheLegion they speak through.]] [[FridgeHorror Nobody knows what happened to the original lineage of House Ordos.]]
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* The Ordos is led by a group of four mechanically-conjoined rulers known as the Executrix - all of whom share a [[HiveMind single mind.]] Their sole representative is the Speaker, a [[HumanoidAbomination [[TranshumanAbomination cyborg...man thing]] that [[VoiceOfTheLegion they speak through.]] [[FridgeHorror Nobody knows what happened to the original lineage of House Ordos.]]
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** Contaminators: [[{{HumanoidAbomination}} Faceless, fleshy and misshapen creatures]] that turn the people they kill into [[SpawnBroodling more of their own kind]] thanks to a [[TheVirus man-made virus.]]
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** Contaminators: [[{{HumanoidAbomination}} [[{{GeneticAbomination}} Faceless, fleshy and misshapen creatures]] that turn the people they kill into [[SpawnBroodling more of their own kind]] thanks to a [[TheVirus man-made virus.]]
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* The Ordos is led by a group of four mechanically-conjoined rulers known as the Executrix - all of whom share a [[HiveMind single mind.]] Their sole representative is the Speaker, a [[HumanoidAbomination cyborg...man thing]] that handles [[VoiceOfTheLegion all of their communication abilities.]] [[FridgeHorror Nobody knows what happened to the original lineage of House Ordos.]]
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* The Ordos is led by a group of four mechanically-conjoined rulers known as the Executrix - all of whom share a [[HiveMind single mind.]] Their sole representative is the Speaker, a [[HumanoidAbomination cyborg...man thing]] that handles [[VoiceOfTheLegion all of their communication abilities.they speak through.]] [[FridgeHorror Nobody knows what happened to the original lineage of House Ordos.]]
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* The most depraved of all of the Tleilaxu's creations are the means by which they create them: [[UterineReplicator the Axlotl Tanks.]] Fleshy, immobile cyborgs connected to giant vats used to birth almost all of their biological marvels, be they Gholas or Face Dancers. The worst part? The Bene Tleilaxu are so [[StayInTheKitchen monstrously misogynistic]] that all women born to them are ''forcibly lobotomized and converted into these horrific machines.''
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* The most depraved of all of the Tleilaxu's creations are the means by which they create them: [[UterineReplicator the Axlotl Tanks.]] Fleshy, immobile cyborgs connected to giant vats used to birth almost all of their biological marvels, be they Gholas or Face Dancers. The worst part? The Bene Tleilaxu are so [[StayInTheKitchen monstrously misogynistic]] that all women born to them are ''forcibly lobotomized lobotomized'' and converted into these horrific machines.''
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* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
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* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his slave, Serena Butler and murdered her young son, Manion Butler.]] And thus began the Butlerian Jihad.
* The most powerful of humanity's [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] constructs, [[DigitalAbomination Omnius]], is a HiveMind that, like his fellow Titans, sees humanity as little more than livestock. However, unlike the Titan Erasmus, who saw Humans as worthy of cruel experimentation, decided that the human race was too untrustworthy to enslave and gave the order to systematically annihilate the species, beginning the Butlerian Jihad and a revulsion towards thinking machines that lasted for ''millennia.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his slave, Serena Butler and murdered her young son, Manion Butler.]] And thus began the Butlerian Jihad.
* The most powerful of humanity's [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] constructs, [[DigitalAbomination Omnius]], is a HiveMind that, like his fellow Titans, sees humanity as little more than livestock. However, unlike the Titan Erasmus, who saw Humans as worthy of cruel experimentation, decided that the human race was too untrustworthy to enslave and gave the order to systematically annihilate the species, beginning the Butlerian Jihad and a revulsion towards thinking machines that lasted for ''millennia.''
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* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Erasmus is a Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity Machine that not only did it make is fascinated by humans decadent and dependent in the same way a cruel child is fascinated with a spider's legs. He will perform twisted experiments on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus becamefind out what makes them tick, even going so irate with humanity far as to murder one of his slaves just so he could paint a picture of his organs. But none of that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his slave, Serena compares to throwing the infant Marion Butler and murdered her young son, Manion Butler.]] And thus began off of his ''balcony'' in a fit of rage, unwittingly kickstarting the Butlerian Jihad.
* The most powerful of humanity's [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] constructs, [[DigitalAbomination Omnius]], is a HiveMind that, like his fellow Titans, sees humanity as little more than livestock. However, unlike the Titan Erasmus, who saw Humans as worthy of cruel experimentation, decided that the human race was too untrustworthy to enslave and gave the order to systematically annihilate thespecies, beginning the Butlerian Jihad and a revulsion towards thinking machines that lasted for ''millennia.''species.
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became
* The most powerful of humanity's [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] constructs, [[DigitalAbomination Omnius]], is a HiveMind that, like his fellow Titans, sees humanity as little more than livestock. However, unlike the Titan Erasmus, who saw Humans as worthy of cruel experimentation, decided that the human race was too untrustworthy to enslave and gave the order to systematically annihilate the
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* Futars are [[CatPeople cat-like humanoids]] bred by the Tleilaxu to serve as manhunters. Subhuman in their intelligence, the Honored Matres controlled them through a perverse mix of intimidation, emotional imprinting and even [[BestialityIsDepraved sex.]]
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* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even rumored that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.]]'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
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* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even rumored that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.]]'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
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* The most powerful of humanity's [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] constructs, [[DigitalAbomination Omnius]], is a HiveMind that, like his fellow Titans, sees humanity as little more than livestock. However, unlike the Titan Erasmus, who saw Humans as worthy of cruel experimentation, decided that the human race was too untrustworthy to enslave and gave the order to [[KillEmAll systematically annihilate]] the species, beginning the Butlerian Jihad and a revulsion towards thinking machines that lasted for ''millennia.''
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* The most powerful of humanity's [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] constructs, [[DigitalAbomination Omnius]], is a HiveMind that, like his fellow Titans, sees humanity as little more than livestock. However, unlike the Titan Erasmus, who saw Humans as worthy of cruel experimentation, decided that the human race was too untrustworthy to enslave and gave the order to [[KillEmAll systematically annihilate]] annihilate the species, beginning the Butlerian Jihad and a revulsion towards thinking machines that lasted for ''millennia.''
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** [[ThirstyDesert The planet is dry.]] ''Very'' dry. So much so that the local [[ProudWarriorRace Fremen]] have to recycle and purify the water from both themselves]] and [[HumanResources their own dead.]] In fact, ''spitting'' is considered a gracious compliment in their culture.
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** [[ThirstyDesert The planet is dry.]] ''Very'' dry. So much so that the local [[ProudWarriorRace Fremen]] have to recycle and purify the water from both themselves]] themselves and [[HumanResources their own dead.]] In fact, ''spitting'' is considered a gracious compliment in their culture.
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** [[ThirstyDesert The planet is dry.]] ''Very'' dry. So much so that the local [[ProudWarriorRace Fremen]] have to recycle and purify the water from both [[IAteWhat themselves]] and [[HumanResources their own dead.]] In fact, ''spitting'' is considered a gracious compliment in their culture.
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** [[ThirstyDesert The planet is dry.]] ''Very'' dry. So much so that the local [[ProudWarriorRace Fremen]] have to recycle and purify the water from both [[IAteWhat both themselves]] and [[HumanResources their own dead.]] In fact, ''spitting'' is considered a gracious compliment in their culture.
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* Robots were frequently used to enslave humans, rounding them up like cattle and transported them across the stars to be worked to death...if they didn't starve to death on the way.* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his owner and murdered her young son, Manion Butler.]] And thus began the Butlerian Jihad.
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his owner and murdered her young son, Manion Butler.]] And thus began the Butlerian Jihad.
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* Robots were frequently used to enslave humans, rounding them up like cattle and transported them across the stars to be worked to death...if they didn't starve to death on the way.way.
* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized hisowner slave, Serena Butler and murdered her young son, Manion Butler.]] And thus began the Butlerian Jihad.
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* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his
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* The reason behind evil of robots: ancient human conquerors, Titans, who overthrew Old Empire, changed robot programming to make them more aggressive, which helped in their mission. However, one of them, Xerxes, chose to relegate much of the ruling to machine, in order to spend more time indulging in pleasures. Thus came the Omnius.
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** It gets worse. The Fremen have been enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad aren't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. Once they were the persecuted. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.]]
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** It gets worse. The Fremen have been enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad aren't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. [[PersecutionFlip Once they were the persecuted. persecuted.]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.persecutors.]]
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* And they came out swinging by [[OmnicidalManiac destroying all life on]] [[AirstripOne Rakis]] from orbit. Were it not for the incredible foresight of the Bene Gesserit, the Sandworms would have been rendered extinct along with the Spice. And all Spice users.
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* And they came out swinging by [[OmnicidalManiac destroying all life on]] [[AirstripOne [[PleaseSelectNewCityName Rakis]] from orbit. Were it not for the incredible foresight of the Bene Gesserit, the Sandworms would have been rendered extinct along with the Spice. And all Spice users.
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** The planet is dry. ''Very'' dry. So much so that the local [[ProudWarriorRace Fremen]] have to recycle and purify the water from both [[IAteWhat themselves]] and [[HumanResources their own dead.]] In fact, ''spitting'' is considered a gracious compliment in their culture.
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** [[ThirstyDesert The planet is dry. dry.]] ''Very'' dry. So much so that the local [[ProudWarriorRace Fremen]] have to recycle and purify the water from both [[IAteWhat themselves]] and [[HumanResources their own dead.]] In fact, ''spitting'' is considered a gracious compliment in their culture.
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** And their monopoly on space travel is ''absolute.'' If you violate the Great Convention or do anything to upset the Guild, they will deny you their Heighliners. No Heighliners, no travel, no trade. And there's nothing you can do about it.
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* The Fremen may be a ProudWarriorRace, but their daily fight for survival means that honor is optional against outsiders. They will wait for hours in the sand for the chance to strike and destroy spice harvesters before the planet's ruling house even has a chance to retaliate.
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* The Fremen may be a ProudWarriorRace, but their daily fight for survival means that honor is optional against outsiders. They will wait for hours in the sand for the chance to strike and destroy spice harvesters before the planet's ruling house even has a chance to retaliate. The worst example of this are claims made by Baron Harkonnen of Fremen women ''[[WouldHurtAChild throwing their infants]]'' at Sardaukar soldiers so that their men have an opportunity to strike. Considering that he reports this to the Emperor himself with his Truthsayer right beside him, ''he's not bluffing.''
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* The son of Paul Atreides and the ''GodEmperor'' of the known universe after his death. His prescient abilities have allowed him to foresee a terrible future where mankind would be annihilated by a mysterious "Enemy" should the status quo be maintained. The "Golden Path'' required to save humanity required some ''very'' drastic measures: He must be the most repressive tyrant in history, restrict all space travel and terraform Arrakis, thereby rendering Sandworms extinct. The most drastic of all of these steps, however, is how he becomes the only source left of the Spice Melange: by literally ''becoming a Sandworm-human hybrid.''
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* The son of Paul Atreides and the ''GodEmperor'' of the known universe after his death. His prescient abilities have allowed him to foresee a terrible future where mankind would be annihilated by a mysterious "Enemy" should the status quo be maintained. The "Golden Path'' Path" required to save humanity required some ''very'' drastic measures: He must be the most repressive tyrant in history, restrict all space travel and terraform Arrakis, thereby rendering Sandworms extinct. The most drastic of all of these steps, however, is how he becomes the only source left of the Spice Melange: by literally ''becoming a Sandworm-human hybrid.''
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!!The Honored Matres
* After The Scattering has made mankind's extinction an impossibility, the Old Empire is being repopulated by the Human diaspora, seeking to scavenge what is left of the Atreides Empire. The greatest and most feared of all of these factions are the Honored Matres, a [[AmazonBrigade matriarchal, warrior-driven society]] obsessed with the [[BreadMilkEggsSquick physical, mental and sexual subjugation]] of their enemies. They use a twisted, sexist version of the Bene Gesserit's Prana Bindu training to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil force men to obey them through sexual means,]] giving them impressive martial and political power.
* And they came out swinging by [[OmnicidalManiac destroying all life on]] [[AirstripOne Rakis]] from orbit. Were it not for the incredible foresight of the Bene Gesserit, the Sandworms would have been rendered extinct along with the Spice. And all Spice users.
* After The Scattering has made mankind's extinction an impossibility, the Old Empire is being repopulated by the Human diaspora, seeking to scavenge what is left of the Atreides Empire. The greatest and most feared of all of these factions are the Honored Matres, a [[AmazonBrigade matriarchal, warrior-driven society]] obsessed with the [[BreadMilkEggsSquick physical, mental and sexual subjugation]] of their enemies. They use a twisted, sexist version of the Bene Gesserit's Prana Bindu training to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil force men to obey them through sexual means,]] giving them impressive martial and political power.
* And they came out swinging by [[OmnicidalManiac destroying all life on]] [[AirstripOne Rakis]] from orbit. Were it not for the incredible foresight of the Bene Gesserit, the Sandworms would have been rendered extinct along with the Spice. And all Spice users.
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!!The Honored Matres
Fremen
*After The Scattering Life on a DeathWorld has made mankind's extinction an impossibility, turned the Old Empire is being repopulated native Fremen tribes, already hardened by [[FantasticRacism generations of persecution]], into [[TheSpartanWay natural born killers and survivalists.]] On such a dry and hellish world, the Human diaspora, seeking to scavenge what is left of the Atreides Empire. The greatest Fremen have no qualms against [[AbsoluteXenophobe killing intruders]] and most feared of all of these factions are the Honored Matres, a [[AmazonBrigade matriarchal, warrior-driven society]] obsessed with the [[BreadMilkEggsSquick physical, mental and sexual subjugation]] of [[HumanResources dehydrating their enemies. corpses for water.]] Which they also do with their ''own dead.'' Water is more valuable than even Spice to the Fremen - Stillsuits recycle it, women will [[GoldDigger sleep for it]] and the most gracious compliment one can give in their culture is ''spitting.''
* The Fremen may be a ProudWarriorRace, but their daily fight for survival means that honor is optional against outsiders. Theyuse a twisted, sexist version of will wait for hours in the Bene Gesserit's Prana Bindu training sand for the chance to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil force men to obey them through sexual means,]] giving them impressive martial strike and political power.destroy spice harvesters before the planet's ruling house even has a chance to retaliate.
* Their crysknives, whittled from Sandworm teeth, are the Fremen's weapon of choice and a strong symbol of their culture. And theycame out swinging by [[OmnicidalManiac destroying all life on]] [[AirstripOne Rakis]] do not unsheathe them unless they are ready and willing to shed blood. When you see its glint, [[OhCrap prepare to die.]]
* Paul's prescience fromorbit. Were it not a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the incredible foresight deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Bene Gesserit, the Sandworms would Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong, Timur and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
** It gets worse. The Fremen have beenrendered extinct along enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad aren't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. Once they were the Spice. persecuted. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.]]
!!Bene Gesserit
* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even rumored that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.]]'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
* Their testing of Paul Atreides' "humanity" by seeing how capable he is of resisting his own instincts. The test? Seeing how long Paul can keep his hand in a box that simulates ''the feeling of being burned alive.'' And he has to do this with a poison needle held to his neck. After he passes the test, Paul withdraws his hand expecting to find only a ''blackened stump.'' Paul is forced into this test when he's barely old enough to take a ''driving test'' and allSpice users.
his mother can do is hope that the test doesn't kill him because of her allegiance to the Bene Gesserit. And he still has his dukedom, the death of his family and a galactic holy war to look forward to. And you thought your teenage years sucked.
** The poison needle itself: The Gom Jabbar. Only 3-4 centimeters in length yet poisonous enough to kill a human whale like Vladimir Harkonnen almost instantly. It's part of the toolkit of every imperial household and nearly every single Bene Gesserit sister.
-->'''Gaius Helen Mohiam:''' I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you can escape me.
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* The Fremen may be a ProudWarriorRace, but their daily fight for survival means that honor is optional against outsiders. They
* Their crysknives, whittled from Sandworm teeth, are the Fremen's weapon of choice and a strong symbol of their culture. And they
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** It gets worse. The Fremen have been
!!Bene Gesserit
* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even rumored that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.]]'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
* Their testing of Paul Atreides' "humanity" by seeing how capable he is of resisting his own instincts. The test? Seeing how long Paul can keep his hand in a box that simulates ''the feeling of being burned alive.'' And he has to do this with a poison needle held to his neck. After he passes the test, Paul withdraws his hand expecting to find only a ''blackened stump.'' Paul is forced into this test when he's barely old enough to take a ''driving test'' and all
** The poison needle itself: The Gom Jabbar. Only 3-4 centimeters in length yet poisonous enough to kill a human whale like Vladimir Harkonnen almost instantly. It's part of the toolkit of every imperial household and nearly every single Bene Gesserit sister.
-->'''Gaius Helen Mohiam:''' I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you can escape me.
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* ''Dune 2000'' and ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'' give us the Buzzsaw, a Harkonnen tank that is literally just a gigantic circular saw with a vehicle built around it. Clicking on it shows that its operators are [[BloodKnight far too enthusiastic]] about their profession.
* A favored weapon of House Harkonnen is the inkvine whip, made from the titular toxic plant. The wounds inflicted by this weapon leave deep, permanent scars colored red by their dye. And they are ''always painful.'' Gurney Halleck, a former Harkonnen slave, has one of these scars ''[[FacialHorror right across his face.]]'' In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', they are used as [[AbnormalAmmunition artillery weapons.]] [[SarcasmMode Fun.]]
* A favored weapon of House Harkonnen is the inkvine whip, made from the titular toxic plant. The wounds inflicted by this weapon leave deep, permanent scars colored red by their dye. And they are ''always painful.'' Gurney Halleck, a former Harkonnen slave, has one of these scars ''[[FacialHorror right across his face.]]'' In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', they are used as [[AbnormalAmmunition artillery weapons.]] [[SarcasmMode Fun.]]
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* ''Dune 2000'' and ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'' give us the Buzzsaw, a Harkonnen tank that is literally just a gigantic circular saw with a vehicle built around it. Clicking on it shows that its Their operators are always [[BloodKnight far too enthusiastic]] about very, very eager to kill.]]
* Devastators: enormous mechs used as heavy artillery by House Harkonnen and powered by an onboard nuclear reactor. Harkonnen, naturally, places such little value on human life that theirprofession.
pilots suffer from perpetual radiation sickness.
* A favored weapon of House Harkonnen is the inkvine whip, made from the titular toxic plant. The wounds inflicted by this weapon leave deep, permanent scars colored red by their dye. And they are ''always painful.'' Gurney Halleck, a former Harkonnen slave, has one of these scars ''[[FacialHorror right across his face.]]'' In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', they are used as[[AbnormalAmmunition [[AbnormalAmmo artillery weapons.]] [[SarcasmMode Fun.]]
* Devastators: enormous mechs used as heavy artillery by House Harkonnen and powered by an onboard nuclear reactor. Harkonnen, naturally, places such little value on human life that their
* A favored weapon of House Harkonnen is the inkvine whip, made from the titular toxic plant. The wounds inflicted by this weapon leave deep, permanent scars colored red by their dye. And they are ''always painful.'' Gurney Halleck, a former Harkonnen slave, has one of these scars ''[[FacialHorror right across his face.]]'' In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', they are used as
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!!Bene Gesserit
* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even rumored that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.]]'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
* Their testing of Paul Atreides' "humanity" by seeing how capable he is of resisting his own instincts. The test? Seeing how long Paul can keep his hand in a box that simulates ''the feeling of being burned alive.'' And he has to do this with a poison needle held to his neck. After he passes the test, Paul withdraws his hand expecting to find only a ''blackened stump.'' Paul is forced into this test when he's barely old enough to take a ''driving test'' and all his mother can do is hope that the test doesn't kill him because of her allegiance to the Bene Gesserit. And he still has his dukedom, the death of his family and a galactic holy war to look forward to. And you thought your teenage years sucked.
** The poison needle itself: The Gom Jabbar. Only 3-4 centimeters in length yet poisonous enough to kill a human whale like Vladimir Harkonnen almost instantly. It's part of the toolkit of every imperial household and nearly every single Bene Gesserit sister.
-->'''Gaius Helen Mohiam:''' I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you can escape me.
* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even rumored that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.]]'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
* Their testing of Paul Atreides' "humanity" by seeing how capable he is of resisting his own instincts. The test? Seeing how long Paul can keep his hand in a box that simulates ''the feeling of being burned alive.'' And he has to do this with a poison needle held to his neck. After he passes the test, Paul withdraws his hand expecting to find only a ''blackened stump.'' Paul is forced into this test when he's barely old enough to take a ''driving test'' and all his mother can do is hope that the test doesn't kill him because of her allegiance to the Bene Gesserit. And he still has his dukedom, the death of his family and a galactic holy war to look forward to. And you thought your teenage years sucked.
** The poison needle itself: The Gom Jabbar. Only 3-4 centimeters in length yet poisonous enough to kill a human whale like Vladimir Harkonnen almost instantly. It's part of the toolkit of every imperial household and nearly every single Bene Gesserit sister.
-->'''Gaius Helen Mohiam:''' I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you can escape me.
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* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
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* Robots were frequently used to enslave humans, rounding them up like cattle and transported them across the stars to be worked to death...if they didn't starve to death on the way.* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
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!!The Fremen
* Life on a DeathWorld has turned the native Fremen tribes, already hardened by [[FantasticRacism generations of persecution]], into [[TheSpartanWay natural born killers and survivalists.]] On such a dry and hellish world, the Fremen have no qualms against [[AbsoluteXenophobe killing intruders]] and [[HumanResources dehydrating their corpses for water.]] Which they also do with their ''own dead.'' Water is more valuable than even Spice to the Fremen - Stillsuits recycle it, women will [[GoldDigger sleep for it]] and the most gracious compliment one can give in their culture is ''spitting.''
* The Fremen may be a ProudWarriorRace, but their daily fight for survival means that honor is optional against outsiders. They will wait for hours in the sand for the chance to strike and destroy spice harvesters before the planet's ruling house even has a chance to retaliate.
* Their crysknives, whittled from Sandworm teeth, are the Fremen's weapon of choice and a strong symbol of their culture. And they do not unsheathe them unless they are ready and willing to shed blood. When you see its glint, [[OhCrap prepare to die.]]
* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong, Timur and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
** It gets worse. The Fremen have been enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad aren't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. Once they were the persecuted. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.]]
* Life on a DeathWorld has turned the native Fremen tribes, already hardened by [[FantasticRacism generations of persecution]], into [[TheSpartanWay natural born killers and survivalists.]] On such a dry and hellish world, the Fremen have no qualms against [[AbsoluteXenophobe killing intruders]] and [[HumanResources dehydrating their corpses for water.]] Which they also do with their ''own dead.'' Water is more valuable than even Spice to the Fremen - Stillsuits recycle it, women will [[GoldDigger sleep for it]] and the most gracious compliment one can give in their culture is ''spitting.''
* The Fremen may be a ProudWarriorRace, but their daily fight for survival means that honor is optional against outsiders. They will wait for hours in the sand for the chance to strike and destroy spice harvesters before the planet's ruling house even has a chance to retaliate.
* Their crysknives, whittled from Sandworm teeth, are the Fremen's weapon of choice and a strong symbol of their culture. And they do not unsheathe them unless they are ready and willing to shed blood. When you see its glint, [[OhCrap prepare to die.]]
* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong, Timur and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
** It gets worse. The Fremen have been enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad aren't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. Once they were the persecuted. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.]]
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!!The Fremen
Honored Matres
*Life on a DeathWorld After The Scattering has turned made mankind's extinction an impossibility, the native Fremen tribes, already hardened Old Empire is being repopulated by [[FantasticRacism generations the Human diaspora, seeking to scavenge what is left of persecution]], into [[TheSpartanWay natural born killers the Atreides Empire. The greatest and survivalists.]] On such most feared of all of these factions are the Honored Matres, a dry [[AmazonBrigade matriarchal, warrior-driven society]] obsessed with the [[BreadMilkEggsSquick physical, mental and hellish world, the Fremen have no qualms against [[AbsoluteXenophobe killing intruders]] and [[HumanResources dehydrating sexual subjugation]] of their corpses for water.]] Which they also do with their ''own dead.'' Water is more valuable than even Spice to the Fremen - Stillsuits recycle it, women will [[GoldDigger sleep for it]] and the most gracious compliment one can give in their culture is ''spitting.''
* The Fremen may be a ProudWarriorRace, but their daily fight for survival means that honor is optional against outsiders.enemies. They will wait for hours in use a twisted, sexist version of the sand for the chance Bene Gesserit's Prana Bindu training to strike [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil force men to obey them through sexual means,]] giving them impressive martial and destroy spice harvesters before the planet's ruling house even has a chance to retaliate.political power.
*Their crysknives, whittled from Sandworm teeth, are the Fremen's weapon of choice and a strong symbol of their culture. And they do not unsheathe them unless they are ready and willing to shed blood. When you see its glint, [[OhCrap prepare to die.]]
* Paul's presciencecame out swinging by [[OmnicidalManiac destroying all life on]] [[AirstripOne Rakis]] from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible orbit. Were it not for the deaths incredible foresight of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong, Timur and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
** It gets worse. The FremenBene Gesserit, the Sandworms would have been enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad aren't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' rendered extinct along with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. Once they were the persecuted. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.]]
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* In one scene, Feyd smokes a joint while [[ForTheEvulz setting fire to a butterfly.]]
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* A favored weapon of House Harkonnen is the inkvine whip, made from the titular toxic plant. The wounds inflicted by this weapon leave deep, permanent scars colored red by their dye. And they are ''always painful.'' Gurney Halleck, a former Harkonnen slave, has one of these scars ''[[FacialHorror right across his face.]]'' In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', they are used as [[AbnormalAmmunition artillery weapons.]] [[SarcasmMode Fun.]]
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!!Leto Atreides II
* The son of Paul Atreides and the ''GodEmperor'' of the known universe after his death. His prescient abilities have allowed him to foresee a terrible future where mankind would be annihilated by a mysterious "Enemy" should the status quo be maintained. The "Golden Path'' required to save humanity required some ''very'' drastic measures: He must be the most repressive tyrant in history, restrict all space travel and terraform Arrakis, thereby rendering Sandworms extinct. The most drastic of all of these steps, however, is how he becomes the only source left of the Spice Melange: by literally ''becoming a Sandworm-human hybrid.''
* After 3,000 years of repression, Leto Atreides II commits the final step required for the Golden Path: [[DeathSeeker allowing himself to be assassinated,]] intentionally crumbling his own empire and allowing the Human race to colonize the stars at a pace never before seen in history. All to teach Humanity a lesson against stagnation.
* Oh, and that "Enemy" predicted to wipe out mankind? It's Omnius. ''[[OhCrap He's back.]]''
* The son of Paul Atreides and the ''GodEmperor'' of the known universe after his death. His prescient abilities have allowed him to foresee a terrible future where mankind would be annihilated by a mysterious "Enemy" should the status quo be maintained. The "Golden Path'' required to save humanity required some ''very'' drastic measures: He must be the most repressive tyrant in history, restrict all space travel and terraform Arrakis, thereby rendering Sandworms extinct. The most drastic of all of these steps, however, is how he becomes the only source left of the Spice Melange: by literally ''becoming a Sandworm-human hybrid.''
* After 3,000 years of repression, Leto Atreides II commits the final step required for the Golden Path: [[DeathSeeker allowing himself to be assassinated,]] intentionally crumbling his own empire and allowing the Human race to colonize the stars at a pace never before seen in history. All to teach Humanity a lesson against stagnation.
* Oh, and that "Enemy" predicted to wipe out mankind? It's Omnius. ''[[OhCrap He's back.]]''
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!!The Honored Matres
* After The Scattering has made mankind's extinction an impossibility, the Old Empire is being repopulated by the Human diaspora, seeking to scavenge what is left of the Atreides Empire. The greatest and most feared of all of these factions are the Honored Matres, a [[AmazonBrigade matriarchal, warrior-driven society]] obsessed with the [[BreadMilkEggsSquick physical, mental and sexual subjugation]] of their enemies. They use a twisted, sexist version of the Bene Gesserit's Prana Bindu training to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil force men to obey them through sexual means,]] giving them impressive martial and political power.
* And they came out swinging by [[OmnicidalManiac destroying all life on]] [[AirstripOne Rakis]] from orbit. Were it not for the incredible foresight of the Bene Gesserit, the Sandworms would have been rendered extinct along with the Spice. And all Spice users.
* After The Scattering has made mankind's extinction an impossibility, the Old Empire is being repopulated by the Human diaspora, seeking to scavenge what is left of the Atreides Empire. The greatest and most feared of all of these factions are the Honored Matres, a [[AmazonBrigade matriarchal, warrior-driven society]] obsessed with the [[BreadMilkEggsSquick physical, mental and sexual subjugation]] of their enemies. They use a twisted, sexist version of the Bene Gesserit's Prana Bindu training to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil force men to obey them through sexual means,]] giving them impressive martial and political power.
* And they came out swinging by [[OmnicidalManiac destroying all life on]] [[AirstripOne Rakis]] from orbit. Were it not for the incredible foresight of the Bene Gesserit, the Sandworms would have been rendered extinct along with the Spice. And all Spice users.
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** It gets worse. The Fremen have been enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad isn't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. Once they were the persecuted. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.]]
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** It gets worse. The Fremen have been enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad isn't aren't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. Once they were the persecuted. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.]]
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* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong, Timur and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
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!!The Fremen
* Life on a DeathWorld has turned the native Fremen tribes, already hardened by [[FantasticRacism generations of persecution]], into [[TheSpartanWay natural born killers and survivalists.]] On such a dry and hellish world, the Fremen have no qualms against [[AbsoluteXenophobe killing intruders]] and [[HumanResources dehydrating their corpses for water.]] Which they also do with their ''own dead.'' Water is more valuable than even Spice to the Fremen - Stillsuits recycle it, women will [[GoldDigger sleep for it]] and the most gracious compliment one can give in their culture is ''spitting.''
* The Fremen may be a ProudWarriorRace, but their daily fight for survival means that honor is optional against outsiders. They will wait for hours in the sand for the chance to strike and destroy spice harvesters before the planet's ruling house even has a chance to retaliate.
* Their crysknives, whittled from Sandworm teeth, are the Fremen's weapon of choice and a strong symbol of their culture. And they do not unsheathe them unless they are ready and willing to shed blood. When you see its glint, [[OhCrap prepare to die.]]
* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong, Timur and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
** It gets worse. The Fremen have been enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad isn't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. Once they were the persecuted. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.]]
* Life on a DeathWorld has turned the native Fremen tribes, already hardened by [[FantasticRacism generations of persecution]], into [[TheSpartanWay natural born killers and survivalists.]] On such a dry and hellish world, the Fremen have no qualms against [[AbsoluteXenophobe killing intruders]] and [[HumanResources dehydrating their corpses for water.]] Which they also do with their ''own dead.'' Water is more valuable than even Spice to the Fremen - Stillsuits recycle it, women will [[GoldDigger sleep for it]] and the most gracious compliment one can give in their culture is ''spitting.''
* The Fremen may be a ProudWarriorRace, but their daily fight for survival means that honor is optional against outsiders. They will wait for hours in the sand for the chance to strike and destroy spice harvesters before the planet's ruling house even has a chance to retaliate.
* Their crysknives, whittled from Sandworm teeth, are the Fremen's weapon of choice and a strong symbol of their culture. And they do not unsheathe them unless they are ready and willing to shed blood. When you see its glint, [[OhCrap prepare to die.]]
* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong, Timur and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
** It gets worse. The Fremen have been enslaved, persecuted and subjugated for so long that their dreams of a Jihad isn't about slaying non-believers or spreading the Zensunni faith - it's about lashing out at ''[[TheDogBitesBack an entire universe that has wronged them,]]'' with Paul as their prophet of vengeance. Once they were the persecuted. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Now they are the ones to be feared.]]
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* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
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* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong Zedong, Timur and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
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* ''Dune 2000'' and ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'' give us the Buzzsaw, a Harkonnen tank that is literally just a gigantic circular saw with a vehicle built around it. Clicking on it shows that its operators are [[BloodKnight far too enthusiastic]] about their profession.
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* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even rumored that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
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* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even rumored that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''Jesus ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.'' ]]'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
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* Before leaving them in the desert to die, two Harkonnen soldiers consider forcing themselves upon Jessica as she and Paul lay unconscious. The only reason that the two survive is because Baron Harkonnen, well aware of Imperial truthsayers, needed them to die in a "coriolis storm" for the sake of plausible deniability. Fortunately, the two awaken and kill the Harkonnen soldiers. But not before they are left to fend for themselves in the desert.
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* Before leaving them in the desert to die, two Harkonnen soldiers consider forcing themselves upon Jessica as she and Paul lay unconscious. The only reason that the two survive is because Baron Harkonnen, well aware of Imperial truthsayers, needed them to die in a "coriolis storm" coriolis storm for the sake of plausible deniability. Fortunately, the two awaken and kill the Harkonnen soldiers. But not before they are left to fend for themselves in the desert.
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* While all houses have a variety of poisons at their disposal for both intrigue and assassination, House Ordos' Deviator Gas makes its victims both [[BrainwashedAndCrazy prone to suggestion and utterly berserk.]] And they test it by releasing it ''onboard a Heighliner.''
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* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad...and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his owner and murdered her son, Manion Butler.]]
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* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad...Jihad and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his owner and murdered her young son, Manion Butler.]] And thus began the Butlerian Jihad.
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his owner and murdered her young son, Manion Butler.]] And thus began the Butlerian Jihad.
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* [[{{AppliedPhlebotinum}} Holtzmann fields]] make for good personal shields, protecting you from almost all projectiles and fast attacks. It becomes a weapon ''against'' both you and your attacker when struck by a [[FrickinLaserBeams lasgun,]] which makes such a ''horrible'' combination with the shield's energy that it produces a ''nuclear explosion'' on contact. And you have [[ParanoiaFuel no idea]] if said explosion will destroy either an army or an ''entire city.'' And it's best if you learn to control your breathing while using a personal shield, as it blocks both projectiles and atmosphere - even if you win the duel against your opponent, the exertion will asphyxiate you with your own carbon dioxide. Don't even think about using them in the deep desert, either - the Holtzmann effect does an amazing job at driving Sandworms into an [[BerserkButton apeshit rage.]]
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* [[{{AppliedPhlebotinum}} Holtzmann fields]] make for good personal shields, protecting you from almost all projectiles and fast attacks. It becomes a weapon ''against'' both you and your attacker when struck by a [[FrickinLaserBeams lasgun,]] which makes such a ''horrible'' combination with the shield's energy that it produces a ''nuclear ''pseudo-nuclear explosion'' on contact. And you have [[ParanoiaFuel no idea]] if said explosion will destroy either an army or an ''entire city.'' And it's best if you learn to control your breathing while using a personal shield, as it blocks both projectiles and atmosphere - even if you win the duel against your opponent, the exertion will asphyxiate you with your own carbon dioxide. Don't even think about using them in the deep desert, either - the Holtzmann effect does an amazing job at driving Sandworms into an [[BerserkButton apeshit rage.]]]]
** Lasgun-shield explosions are more than just a severe inconvenience - they violate the Great Convention as well. Meaning that even if you caused it by accident, it will brand you and your ''entire house'' as ''war criminals.'' Is it really any wonder why hand-to-hand combat is routine in this universe?
** Lasgun-shield explosions are more than just a severe inconvenience - they violate the Great Convention as well. Meaning that even if you caused it by accident, it will brand you and your ''entire house'' as ''war criminals.'' Is it really any wonder why hand-to-hand combat is routine in this universe?
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* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even implied that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
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* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even implied rumored that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
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* The most depraved of all of the Tleilaxu's creations are the means by which they create them: [[UterineReplicator the Axlotl Tanks.]] Fleshy, immobile cyborgs connected to giant vats used to birth almost all of their biological marvels, be they Gholas or Face Dancers. They are also [[FridgeHorror the reason nobody has ever seen a female Tleilax.]]
!!Expanded Dune
* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad...and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all.
!!Expanded Dune
* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad...and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all.
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* The most depraved of all of the Tleilaxu's creations are the means by which they create them: [[UterineReplicator the Axlotl Tanks.]] Fleshy, immobile cyborgs connected to giant vats used to birth almost all of their biological marvels, be they Gholas or Face Dancers. They The worst part? The Bene Tleilaxu are also [[FridgeHorror the reason nobody has ever seen a female Tleilax.]]
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so [[StayInTheKitchen monstrously misogynistic]] that all women born to them are ''forcibly lobotomized and converted into these horrific machines.''
!!The Butlerian Jihad
* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad...and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his owner and murdered her son, Manion Butler.]]
!!Expanded Dune
!!The Butlerian Jihad
* Why can't anyone use supercomputers, robots or AI even 20,000 years into the future? Blame the Butlerian Jihad...and the horrible, horrible things committed by the thinking machines that started it all. Thinking machines were so relied upon by humanity that not only did it make humans decadent and dependent on them for day-to-day life, they were easily used by autocrats to enslave and oppress their fellow man until the machines started being ''oppressors themselves.''
* The final straw was when the robot Erasmus became so irate with humanity that he [[MoralEventHorizon sterilized his owner and murdered her son, Manion Butler.]]
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* Emperor Shaddam IV's greed and paranoia knows no bounds, as House Richese learned the hard way during the Great Spice War. Their homeworld's only moon, Korona, was used primarily for research and development - and secretly for Spice smuggling. When the Emperor learned about this secret operation of theirs, he [[DisproportionateRetribution ordered the destruction]] of the [[DetonationMoon entire satellite,]] bombarding Richese with [[ColonyDrop meteorites]] for ''months on end.'' Lesson learned: do ''not'' fuck with House Corrino.
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* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even implied that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.''
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* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even implied that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.''
'' Entire ''religions'' have been built by their false prophecies so they could groom ''humanity itself'' into producing a messianic human being with a mind capable of transcending time and space without fault or fail.
* Their testing of Paul Atreides' "humanity" by seeing how capable he is of resisting his own instincts. The test? Seeing how long Paul can keep his hand in a box that simulates ''the feeling of being burned alive.'' And he has to do this with a poison needle held to his neck. After he passes the test, Paul withdraws his hand expecting to find only a ''blackened stump.'' Paul is forced into this test when he's barely old enough to take a ''driving test'' and all his mother can do is hope that the test doesn't kill him because of her allegiance to the Bene Gesserit. And he still has his dukedom, the death of his family and a galactic holy war to look forward to. And you thought your teenage years sucked.
** The poison needle itself: The Gom Jabbar. Only 3-4 centimeters in length yet poisonous enough to kill a human whale like Vladimir Harkonnen almost instantly. It's part of the toolkit of every imperial household and nearly every single Bene Gesserit sister.
-->'''Gaius Helen Mohiam:''' I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you can escape me.
* Their testing of Paul Atreides' "humanity" by seeing how capable he is of resisting his own instincts. The test? Seeing how long Paul can keep his hand in a box that simulates ''the feeling of being burned alive.'' And he has to do this with a poison needle held to his neck. After he passes the test, Paul withdraws his hand expecting to find only a ''blackened stump.'' Paul is forced into this test when he's barely old enough to take a ''driving test'' and all his mother can do is hope that the test doesn't kill him because of her allegiance to the Bene Gesserit. And he still has his dukedom, the death of his family and a galactic holy war to look forward to. And you thought your teenage years sucked.
** The poison needle itself: The Gom Jabbar. Only 3-4 centimeters in length yet poisonous enough to kill a human whale like Vladimir Harkonnen almost instantly. It's part of the toolkit of every imperial household and nearly every single Bene Gesserit sister.
-->'''Gaius Helen Mohiam:''' I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you can escape me.
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* [[DeathWorld Salusa Secundus]] is the former homeworld of House Corrino, turned into a prison planet after it was turned into an irradiated wasteland by a campaign of nuclear genocide. Now it is used to train the Emperor's bodyguards and death squads: [[SuperSoldier The Sardaukar.]] Salusa Secundus is so hostile, violent and unforgiving that its inhabitants have to be [[BloodKnight a murderous psychopath]] just to reach [[EnfantTerrible puberty.]] [[TheSpartanWay And House Corrino will have it no other way.]]
!!House Corrino
* [[DeathWorld Salusa Secundus]] is the former homeworld of House Corrino, turned into a prison planet after it was turned into an irradiated wasteland by a campaign of nuclear genocide. Now it is used to train the Emperor's bodyguards and death squads: [[SuperSoldier The Sardaukar.]] Salusa Secundus is so hostile, violent and unforgiving that its inhabitants have to be [[BloodKnight murderous psychopaths]] just to reach the age of [[EnfantTerrible puberty.]] [[TheSpartanWay And House Corrino will have it no other way.]]
* Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, whose rule over the Imperium makes him the de facto ruler of the ''known universe.'' His house, House Corrino, has ruled the Imperium in the ten-thousand years since the end of the Butlerian Jihad. So when House Atreides starts gaining tremendous moral and political influence over most of the other houses of the Landsraad, House Corrino is so threatened by this unheard-of danger to their political standing that their solution is to [[TheChessmaster give them fiefdom]] over planet Arrakis, leading them into a trap set and sprung by both the Harkonnens and the Sardaukar.
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* House Ordos is driven by two things: [[MoneyDearBoy profit]] and the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney efficient means]] of attaining said profit. Even if it means defying the Great Convention by violating Guild rules or dabbling in illegal technology.
* The Ordos is led by a group of four mechanically-conjoined rulers known as the Executrix - all of whom share a [[HiveMind single mind.]] Their sole representative is the Speaker, a [[HumanoidAbomination cyborg...man thing]] that handles [[VoiceOfTheLegion all of their communication abilities.]] [[FridgeHorror Nobody knows what happened to the original lineage of House Ordos.]]
* In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', the first cinematic of the House Ordos campaign has you being introduced to your Mentat advisor...and [[YouHaveFailedMe their previous]] [[LosingYourHead strategist.]]
-->'''Executrix:''' Fear is an efficient tool of management.
-->'''Strategist:''' [[AndIMustScream Let me die.]]
** Should you fail the campaign, you join your predecessor as well...
-->'''Mentat Roma Atani''': Your contract is terminated. You will now serve as an example to future strategists. [[{{MeaningfulEcho}} Fear is an efficient tool of management.]] ''(Leaves you trapped with your predecessor.)''
-->'''Strategist''': Why won't they just let us die?
!!Bene Gesserit
* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even implied that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.''
* [[DeathWorld Salusa Secundus]] is the former homeworld of House Corrino, turned into a prison planet after it was turned into an irradiated wasteland by a campaign of nuclear genocide. Now it is used to train the Emperor's bodyguards and death squads: [[SuperSoldier The Sardaukar.]] Salusa Secundus is so hostile, violent and unforgiving that its inhabitants have to be [[BloodKnight murderous psychopaths]] just to reach the age of [[EnfantTerrible puberty.]] [[TheSpartanWay And House Corrino will have it no other way.]]
* Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, whose rule over the Imperium makes him the de facto ruler of the ''known universe.'' His house, House Corrino, has ruled the Imperium in the ten-thousand years since the end of the Butlerian Jihad. So when House Atreides starts gaining tremendous moral and political influence over most of the other houses of the Landsraad, House Corrino is so threatened by this unheard-of danger to their political standing that their solution is to [[TheChessmaster give them fiefdom]] over planet Arrakis, leading them into a trap set and sprung by both the Harkonnens and the Sardaukar.
!!House Ordos
* House Ordos is driven by two things: [[MoneyDearBoy profit]] and the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney efficient means]] of attaining said profit. Even if it means defying the Great Convention by violating Guild rules or dabbling in illegal technology.
* The Ordos is led by a group of four mechanically-conjoined rulers known as the Executrix - all of whom share a [[HiveMind single mind.]] Their sole representative is the Speaker, a [[HumanoidAbomination cyborg...man thing]] that handles [[VoiceOfTheLegion all of their communication abilities.]] [[FridgeHorror Nobody knows what happened to the original lineage of House Ordos.]]
* In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', the first cinematic of the House Ordos campaign has you being introduced to your Mentat advisor...and [[YouHaveFailedMe their previous]] [[LosingYourHead strategist.]]
-->'''Executrix:''' Fear is an efficient tool of management.
-->'''Strategist:''' [[AndIMustScream Let me die.]]
** Should you fail the campaign, you join your predecessor as well...
-->'''Mentat Roma Atani''': Your contract is terminated. You will now serve as an example to future strategists. [[{{MeaningfulEcho}} Fear is an efficient tool of management.]] ''(Leaves you trapped with your predecessor.)''
-->'''Strategist''': Why won't they just let us die?
!!Bene Gesserit
* For all their wisdom, planning and aspiration towards a better future for the human race, the Bene Gesserit are cold, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative witches]] whose millennia-spanning conspiracies would make the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Knights Templar]], [[TabletopGame/BattleTech Comstar]] and [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Tzeentch himself]] seethe with jealously. It's even implied that failed candidates for the [[TheMessiah Kwisatz-Haderach]] included ''Jesus Christ and Siddharta Gautama.''
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* House Ordos is driven by two things: [[MoneyDearBoy profit]] and the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney efficient means]] of attaining said profit. Even if it means defying the Great Convention by violating Guild rules or dabbling in illegal technology.
* The Ordos is led by a group of four mechanically-conjoined rulers known as the Executrix - all of whom share a [[HiveMind single mind.]] Their sole representative is the Speaker, a [[HumanoidAbomination cyborg...man thing]] that handles [[VoiceOfTheLegion all of their communication abilities.]] [[FridgeHorror Nobody knows what happened to the original lineage of House Ordos.]]
* In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', the first cinematic of the House Ordos campaign has you being introduced to your Mentat advisor...and [[YouHaveFailedMe their previous]] [[LosingYourHead strategist.]]
-->'''Executrix:''' Fear is an efficient tool of management.
-->'''Strategist:''' [[AndIMustScream Let me die.]]
** Should you fail the campaign, you join your predecessor as well...
-->'''Mentat Roma Atani''': Your contract is terminated. You will now serve as an example to future strategists. [[{{MeaningfulEcho}} Fear is an efficient tool of management.]] ''(Leaves you trapped with your predecessor.)''
-->'''Strategist''': Why won't they just let us die?
* House Ordos is driven by two things: [[MoneyDearBoy profit]] and the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney efficient means]] of attaining said profit. Even if it means defying the Great Convention by violating Guild rules or dabbling in illegal technology.
* The Ordos is led by a group of four mechanically-conjoined rulers known as the Executrix - all of whom share a [[HiveMind single mind.]] Their sole representative is the Speaker, a [[HumanoidAbomination cyborg...man thing]] that handles [[VoiceOfTheLegion all of their communication abilities.]] [[FridgeHorror Nobody knows what happened to the original lineage of House Ordos.]]
* In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', the first cinematic of the House Ordos campaign has you being introduced to your Mentat advisor...and [[YouHaveFailedMe their previous]] [[LosingYourHead strategist.]]
-->'''Executrix:''' Fear is an efficient tool of management.
-->'''Strategist:''' [[AndIMustScream Let me die.]]
** Should you fail the campaign, you join your predecessor as well...
-->'''Mentat Roma Atani''': Your contract is terminated. You will now serve as an example to future strategists. [[{{MeaningfulEcho}} Fear is an efficient tool of management.]] ''(Leaves you trapped with your predecessor.)''
-->'''Strategist''': Why won't they just let us die?
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* House Ordos is driven by two things: [[MoneyDearBoy profit]] and the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney efficient means]] of attaining said profit. Even if it means defying the Great Convention by violating Guild rules or dabbling in illegal technology.
* The Ordos is led by a group of four mechanically-conjoined rulers known as the Executrix - all of whom share a [[HiveMind single mind.]] Their sole representative is the Speaker, a [[HumanoidAbomination cyborg...man thing]] that handles [[VoiceOfTheLegion all of their communication abilities.]] [[FridgeHorror Nobody knows what happened to the original lineage of House Ordos.]]
* In ''Emperor: Battle For Dune'', the first cinematic of the House Ordos campaign has you being introduced to your Mentat advisor...and [[YouHaveFailedMe their previous]] [[LosingYourHead strategist.]]
-->'''Executrix:''' Fear is an efficient tool of management.
-->'''Strategist:''' [[AndIMustScream Let me die.]]
** Should you fail the campaign, you join your predecessor as well...
-->'''Mentat Roma Atani''': Your contract is terminated. You will now serve as an example to future strategists. [[{{MeaningfulEcho}} Fear is an efficient tool of management.]] ''(Leaves you trapped with your predecessor.)''
-->'''Strategist''': Why won't they just let us die?
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* [[{{AppliedPhlebotinum}} Holtzmann fields]] make for good personal shields...until they get hit with a shot from a [[FrickinLaserBeams lasgun.]] The result? ''Nuclear explosion.''
* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
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* [[{{AppliedPhlebotinum}} Holtzmann fields]] make for good personal shields...until they get hit with a shot shields, protecting you from almost all projectiles and fast attacks. It becomes a weapon ''against'' both you and your attacker when struck by a [[FrickinLaserBeams lasgun.]] lasgun,]] which makes such a ''horrible'' combination with the shield's energy that it produces a ''nuclear explosion'' on contact. And you have [[ParanoiaFuel no idea]] if said explosion will destroy either an army or an ''entire city.'' And it's best if you learn to control your breathing while using a personal shield, as it blocks both projectiles and atmosphere - even if you win the duel against your opponent, the exertion will asphyxiate you with your own carbon dioxide. Don't even think about using them in the deep desert, either - the Holtzmann effect does an amazing job at driving Sandworms into an [[BerserkButton apeshit rage.]]
* [[DeathWorld Salusa Secundus]] is the former homeworld of House Corrino, turned into a prison planet after it was turned into an irradiated wasteland by a campaign of nuclear genocide. Now it is used to train the Emperor's bodyguards and death squads: [[SuperSoldier Theresult? ''Nuclear explosion.''
Sardaukar.]] Salusa Secundus is so hostile, violent and unforgiving that its inhabitants have to be [[BloodKnight a murderous psychopath]] just to reach [[EnfantTerrible puberty.]] [[TheSpartanWay And House Corrino will have it no other way.]]
* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot,Atilla Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong and Leopold II '''combined.''' [[{{Understatement}} Being Muad'Dib is hard.]]
* [[DeathWorld Salusa Secundus]] is the former homeworld of House Corrino, turned into a prison planet after it was turned into an irradiated wasteland by a campaign of nuclear genocide. Now it is used to train the Emperor's bodyguards and death squads: [[SuperSoldier The
* Paul's prescience from a combination of Bene Gesserit eugenics and his Spice fixation allow him to avenge his family and liberate Arrakis from Imperial rule. With the added bonus of making him the Emperor of the Known Universe. Unfortunately, he also predicts that the Fremen will subsequently lead a violent Jihad ''in his name'', indirectly making him responsible for the deaths of 61,000,000,000 people, 90 planets and 40 ''religions.'' [[{{KnightTemplar}} And they do just that.]] [[{{NiceJobBreakingItHero}} Thanks to his good intentions]], Paul has ultimately killed more people than Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot,
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* [[FatBastard Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.]] Full-stop. A [[TheChessmaster calculating,]] [[CompleteMonster sadistic]] [[{{Ephebophile}} pederast]] who is so morbidly obese that he requires an [[{{Acrofatic}} anti-gravity harness]] to move. His [[AlwaysChaoticEvil entire House]] is driven by greed, brutality and cruelty, busying himself in the first book with [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] his two nephews into ensuring House Harkonnen's supremacy on the galactic stage.
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* [[FatBastard Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.]] Full-stop. A [[TheChessmaster calculating,]] [[CompleteMonster sadistic]] [[{{Ephebophile}} pederast]] who is so morbidly obese that he requires an [[{{Acrofatic}} anti-gravity harness]] to move. His [[AlwaysChaoticEvil entire House]] is driven by greed, brutality greed and cruelty, busying himself where slavery is routine and brutality is a way of life. The Baron's time in the first book with is spent [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] his two nephews into ensuring House Harkonnen's supremacy on the galactic stage.
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** Baron Harkonnen interrogates Dr. Yueh by trapping his wife Wanna in a “sadistic-looking machine”, where he and Feyd [[ColdBloodedTorture proceed to turn her limbs into crystal before smashing them into pieces until only her head and torso remained.]] Did we mention that Wanna was apparently [[{{WTHCastingAgency fourteen years old in the script?]]
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** Baron Harkonnen interrogates Dr. Yueh by trapping his wife Wanna in a “sadistic-looking machine”, where he and Feyd [[ColdBloodedTorture proceed to turn her limbs into crystal before smashing them into pieces until only her head and torso remained.]] Did we mention that Wanna was apparently [[{{WTHCastingAgency [[WTHCastingAgency fourteen years old in the script?]]
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* The most powerful of humanity's [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] constructs, [[DigitalAbomination Omnius]], is a HiveMind that, like his fellow Titans, sees humanity as little more than livestock. However, unlike the Titan Erasmus, who saw Humans as worthy of cruel experimentation, decided that the human race was too untrustworthy to enslave and gave the order to [[KillEmAll systematically annihilate]] the species, beginning the Butlerian Jihad and a revulsion towards thinking machines that lasted for ''millennia.''
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** Baron Harkonnen interrogates Dr. Yueh by trapping his wife Wanna in a “sadistic-looking machine”, where he and Feyd [[ColdBloodedTorture proceed to turn her limbs into crystal before smashing them into pieces until only her head and torso remained.]] Did we mention that Wanna was apparently [[PaedoHunt fourteen years old in the script?]]
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** Baron Harkonnen interrogates Dr. Yueh by trapping his wife Wanna in a “sadistic-looking machine”, where he and Feyd [[ColdBloodedTorture proceed to turn her limbs into crystal before smashing them into pieces until only her head and torso remained.]] Did we mention that Wanna was apparently [[PaedoHunt [[{{WTHCastingAgency fourteen years old in the script?]]script?]]
* One scene in the storyboard has the Sardaukar going against ''[[WouldHurtAChild an army of children.]]'' The only thing that is [[GoryDiscretionShot shown during the fight]] are tips of their spears and swords, which get bloodier and gorier with each swipe and stroke.
* One scene in the storyboard has the Sardaukar going against ''[[WouldHurtAChild an army of children.]]'' The only thing that is [[GoryDiscretionShot shown during the fight]] are tips of their spears and swords, which get bloodier and gorier with each swipe and stroke.
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* [[FatBastard Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.]] Full-stop. A [[TheChessmaster calculating,]] [[CompleteMonster sadistic]] [[{{Ephebophile}} pederast]] that is so morbidly obese that he requires an [[{{Acrofatic}} anti-gravity harness]] to move. His [[AlwaysChaoticEvil entire House]] is driven by greed, brutality and cruelty, busying himself in the first book with [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] his two nephews into ensuring House Harkonnen's supremacy on the galactic stage.
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* [[FatBastard Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.]] Full-stop. A [[TheChessmaster calculating,]] [[CompleteMonster sadistic]] [[{{Ephebophile}} pederast]] that who is so morbidly obese that he requires an [[{{Acrofatic}} anti-gravity harness]] to move. His [[AlwaysChaoticEvil entire House]] is driven by greed, brutality and cruelty, busying himself in the first book with [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating]] his two nephews into ensuring House Harkonnen's supremacy on the galactic stage.
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* Gholas are clones made from dead tissue, used almost exclusively for the purposes of either false flag attacks, puppet rulers or the resurrecting of important individuals.
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* Chogs. [[{{ExactlyAsItSaysOnTheTin}} Chair-dogs.]] Canines engineered to act as living, mobile thrones for their patrons. Is there really anything more to be said?
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* Chogs. [[{{ExactlyAsItSaysOnTheTin}} Chair-dogs.]] Chair-Dogs. Canines engineered to act as living, mobile thrones for their patrons. Is there really anything more to be said?
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** At one point in the first book, the Baron disciplines Feyd by [[DisproportionateRetribution forcing him to slaughter his favorite slaves.]] ''Feyd views this as a tedious inconvenience.''
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** At one point in the first book, the Baron disciplines Feyd by [[DisproportionateRetribution forcing him to slaughter his favorite slaves.]] ''Feyd views Feyd obeys this command with the emotional weight of a kid being forced to clean his room.
* Piter De Vries is the personal Mentat of Baron Harkonnen and is just as cruel and sadistic as his master. Not only that, he's a "Twisted Mentat," vat-grown by the Tleilaxu as atedious inconvenience.''way of getting around the mandatory ethics training of the Mentat schools.
* Piter De Vries is the personal Mentat of Baron Harkonnen and is just as cruel and sadistic as his master. Not only that, he's a "Twisted Mentat," vat-grown by the Tleilaxu as a
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* The Bene Tleilaxu are masters of bio-technology and both [[BodyHorror their creations]] and [[ManipulativeBastard their ambitions]] have rightfully earned them a reputation as one of the most revolting organizations in the known universe.
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* The Bene Tleilaxu are masters of bio-technology and both [[BodyHorror their creations]] and [[ManipulativeBastard their ambitions]] have rightfully earned them a reputation as one of the most revolting organizations in the known universe. Their genetic shenanigans aren't just limited to their products, but to ''themselves'' as well, looking more like RubberForeheadAliens than actual humans.
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* The most depraved of all of the Tleilaxu's creations are the means by which they create them: [[UterineReplicator the Axolotl Tanks.]] Fleshy, immobile cyborgs connected to giant vats used to birth almost all of their biological marvels, be they Gholas or Face Dancers. They are also [[FridgeHorror the reason nobody has ever seen a female Tleilax.]]
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* Chogs. [[{{ExactlyAsItSaysOnTheTin}} Chair-dogs.]] Canines engineered to act as living, mobile thrones for their patrons. Is there really anything more to be said?
* The most depraved of all of the Tleilaxu's creations are the means by which they create them: [[UterineReplicator theAxolotl Axlotl Tanks.]] Fleshy, immobile cyborgs connected to giant vats used to birth almost all of their biological marvels, be they Gholas or Face Dancers. They are also [[FridgeHorror the reason nobody has ever seen a female Tleilax.]]
* The most depraved of all of the Tleilaxu's creations are the means by which they create them: [[UterineReplicator the
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** One of the storyboards show the protagonists having to enter (and leave) the Emperor's palace through a gateway shaped like a ''clown presenting his bare ass.'' What. The. Fuck.
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** One of the storyboards show the protagonists having to enter (and leave) the Emperor's palace through a gateway shaped like a ''clown presenting his bare ass.'' What. The. Fuck.
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* House Harkonnen's [[ColdBloodedTorture torture and execution of Duke Leto]]. They clip off his limbs one-by-one using red-hot shears. For the ''coup de grace'', the Baron cuts Leto's head off ''himself.''
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** At one point in the first book, the Baron disciplines Feyd by [[DisproportionateRetribution forcing him to slaughter his favorite slaves.]] ''Feyd has few if any problems with this.''
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** At one point in the first book, the Baron disciplines Feyd by [[DisproportionateRetribution forcing him to slaughter his favorite slaves.]] ''Feyd has few if any problems with this.views this as a tedious inconvenience.''
