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Organizations

30 entries tagged Organizations, 30 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Bene Gesserit and Sardaukar: the Emperor's prison-world troops.

House Ordos: the Dune Game House That Never Appeared in the BooksHouse Ordos is the third Great House of the Westwood Dune games, a cartel of rich merchant families from an ice world who fight with sabotage and banned technology. It isn't in Frank Herbert's novels or the Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson books, and this page sets out where it really comes from.
Qizarate: the Priesthood of Muad'Dib in Dune MessiahThe Qizarate was the priesthood of Paul Atreides's religion, Fremen priests who turned Muad'Dib into a god and carried his faith across the Imperium behind the armies of the jihad. By Dune Messiah it had become a wealthy bureaucracy that Paul himself could barely steer, and some of its leaders plotted his death.
Nar Trig: Swordmaster of GinazNar Trig was a Ginaz Swordmaster of the Jool Noret school, born of refugees from Peridot Colony and driven by a lifelong hatred of thinking machines. He fought through the late Butlerian Jihad beside Istian Goss, fell in with the fanatical Martyrists, and died in 88 BG on Salusa Secundus, decapitated by Chirox, the sensei mek that had trained him.
Rebels: uprisings against the Atreides ImperiumThe Rebels were the diverse movements, uprisings and revolts that rose against the Imperium across the centuries of Atreides rule, from armed revolution and terrorism to subversion and sabotage. They ranged from the Great Houses that refused Paul Muad'Dib's succession to the desert rebels of Alia's reign and the cell of Siona Atreides that finally brought down the God Emperor himself.
Bene GesseritThe Bene Gesserit were an ancient order of women who wielded power from the shadows of the Imperium through a millennia-long breeding program, mastery of body and mind, and the religious engineering of the Missionaria Protectiva. Their goal was the Kwisatz Haderach, and through him the guidance of humanity.
Bene Tleilax: gholas, Face Dancers, tanksReviled across the Imperium and needed by every part of it. The Tleilaxu axolotl tanks produced gholas, Face Dancers and Twisted Mentats to order.
CHOAMCHOAM, the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles, was the vast commercial monopoly that governed nearly all trade across the Imperium. Its directorships were the true measure of political power, and its profits, many of them tied to the spice melange, sustained the Great Houses.
FedaykinThe Fedaykin were Fremen fighters of Arrakis, first the guerrillas of the Arrakis Revolt and then the personal death commandos of Paul Muad'Dib. By the time of his children they had become the elite of the Jihad army, before Alia Atreides dissolved them and the word returned to its old meaning.
First Battle of ZimiaThe First Battle of Zimia was an assault by Agamemnon's robotic forces against Salusa Secundus, the capital of the League of Nobles. It was the first concentrated machine aggression after a century of cold war, and the defense of the city's shield generators made the reputation of Xavier Harkonnen.
First EmpireThe First Empire was the dominant form of ancient human society on Terra and its interstellar vicinity, lasting some 6395 years from 16500 to 11105 BG. Its expansion into space outran its own ability to govern, and the failure of swift communication eventually brought it down.
Fish SpeakersThe Fish Speakers are the all-female army created by God Emperor Leto Atreides II to enforce his rule and protect the Golden Path. Fanatical soldiers and priestesses, they hold his empire through thousands of years of peace and are left to Duncan Idaho and Siona when he dies.
Honored Matres: the Sisterhood's dark mirrorThey came out of uncharted space fifteen centuries after the God Emperor died, and took worlds by sexual enslavement and outright destruction.
House RicheseHouse Richese ruled the machine world of Richese, a Great House classed with Ix as supreme in machine culture. Its ruinous trade war with House Vernius of Ix broke its fortunes and left it making copies of Ixian invention.
Iblis GinjoIblis Ginjo was a former thinking machine trustee who rose to become the first Grand Patriarch of the Holy Jihad, founding the Jihad Police and the Jihad Council before his corruption led Xavier Harkonnen to kill him.
Istian GossIstian Goss was a Ginaz swordmaster of the Jool-Noret School, believed to carry the reincarnated spirit of Jool Noret. He fought through the Butlerian Jihad and reached the secret final level of Noret's fighting style at the Battle of Corrin.
Jool NoretJool Noret was a mercenary of Ginaz and the first true Swordmaster, a legendary warrior of the Butlerian Jihad whose reckless fighting style and posthumous shrine founded the Jool-Noret School of swordmasters.
Juno: the Titan lieutenant of AgamemnonJuno, born Julianna Parhi on Old Earth, was one of the original Titans and the lover and lieutenant of their leader Agamemnon. Cold, analytical, and lethal in battle, she ruled as a cymek for centuries before falling to Quentin Butler on Hessra.
Landsraad: the council of the Great HousesThe High Council of the Great Houses, overseen by the Padishah Emperor. It gave them a forum for trade, alliance and the formal feud of kanly.
Mentat: the human mind built as a computerThe Jihad outlawed machines in the likeness of a mind, so the Houses trained people instead. Mentats served as advisors, strategists and killers.
Missionaria ProtectivaThe Missionaria Protectiva was the Bene Gesserit program for seeding protective myths and prophecies among primitive cultures, so that a Sister in danger could later cast herself as a foretold figure and turn local belief to the Sisterhood's advantage.
New SisterhoodThe New Sisterhood was the order created when Murbella merged the Bene Gesserit with the Honored Matres after the death of Darwi Odrade. Forged to unite a fractured humanity, it raised fleets and the Valkyrie strike force to face the returning Thinking Machines in the war that ended at Kralizec.
Sardaukar: the Emperor's prison-world troopsRaised on the penal planet Salusa Secundus and feared across the Known Universe. The Fremen beat them on Arrakis and put Paul Atreides on the throne.
SmugglerA smuggler was anyone who sold or transported contraband or controlled substances within the Imperium. Smugglers were common on Arrakis, where they dealt chiefly in the spice melange, and Duke Leto Atreides sought an accommodation with them after taking the fief.
Sorceresses of Rossak: the telekinetic orderThe Sorceresses of Rossak were an order of telekinetic women native to the toxic jungle world of Rossak. Staunch enemies of the thinking machines, they eventually evolved into the Sisterhood that became the Bene Gesserit.
Spacing Guild: the monopoly on space travelIts Navigators took spice until prescience let them fold space, and nothing crossed the stars without them. That monopoly held the Imperium up.
Suk SchoolThe Suk Medical School trained the most trusted physicians of the Imperium. Its Imperial Conditioning was believed to make a Suk doctor incapable of taking a human life, marked by a diamond tattoo and a silver hair ring.
Swordmasters of GinazThe Swordmasters of Ginaz were warriors who earned the title by attaining a high level of skill at the Ginaz School. Regarded as superior to Sardaukar, they served the Great Houses as commanders, teachers, and personal guards.
TitansThe Titans were twenty human revolutionaries who seized the Old Empire and ruled it as brutal overlords, then preserved themselves as cymeks by transplanting their brains into mechanical bodies. Their reach gave rise to Omnius, who reduced them to powerless celebrities before the last of them fell during the Butlerian Jihad.
Tleilaxu MasterTleilaxu Masters were the elite caste of the Bene Tleilax, served by gholas and Face Dancers and immune to the Bene Gesserit Voice. The ten Masheikhs of the Ruling Council stood at the summit of their order.
Yorek ThurrYorek Thurr was a Salusan politician and the long-standing head of the Jipol secret police during the Butlerian Jihad. Secretly serving both the thinking machines and the Titans, he engineered the Omnius Scourge and other plagues that killed billions across the League of Nobles.