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34 entries tagged Planets, 34 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Arrakis and Caladan: the ocean world the Atreides left.

Corrinth City: the capital of Kaitain and the seat of the Corrino EmpireCorrinth City was the chief city of Kaitain and the administrative centre of the Corrino Imperium. Hassik Corrino III taxed his subjects almost to bankruptcy to build it, and Fremen troops of the Jihad sacked it after the ascension of House Atreides.
Dar-es-Balat: the no-chamber holding Leto II's own account of his reignDar-es-Balat was the site on Rakis where the God-Emperor Leto Atreides II sealed a no-chamber containing his record of a rule that lasted millennia. Hadi Benotto excavated it, the Rakian Priesthood suppressed the reports, and the Bene Gesserit Archives obtained copies regardless.
The Sareer: the last desert on Arrakis and the ground of Leto II's CitadelThe Sareer was the only desert left on Arrakis under Leto Atreides II, 1,500 by 500 kilometres of sand walled with the material of a demolished mountain. It held his Citadel, was guarded by the D-wolves of the Forbidden Forest, and was pulled apart in the Famine Times after his death.
Alia's Temple: the fane of St. Alia of the KnifeAlia's Temple, also called Alia's Fane, was the colossal temple in Arrakeen dedicated to the worship of St. Alia of the Knife. Raised beside Paul's Keep as one of the wonders of the universe, it drew pilgrims from across the Imperium, hid dungeons beneath its maze of corridors, and became the stage for the fall of the Regent Alia Atreides.
Planet of the Handlers: futar homeworld in the ScatteringThe Planet of the Handlers was the name given by the crew of the no-ship Ithaca to an arboreal world in Human Scattering space, homeworld of the futars and of the masters who guided them. Its hospitality concealed Enhanced Face Dancers serving Omnius and Erasmus, and the landing there cost the ship far more than it knew at the time.
Planet: worlds of the Known UniverseIn the cosmography of the Imperium, a planet was a celestial body in orbit around a star, neither a star itself nor a moon, that had swept its orbital region clear as it formed. From Old Earth outward, humanity settled thousands of such worlds, from the deserts of Arrakis to the oceans of Caladan.
Arrakeen conservatoryThe Arrakeen conservatory was a luxurious private garden built on the roof of the government mansion at Arrakeen, crowded with exotic wet-climate plants and a wasteful fountain. To the Fremen it was anathema, a weirding room, yet it came to embody Liet-Kynes' dream of a green Arrakis.
Arrakeen governor's palace: the Residency of ArrakisThe Arrakeen governor's palace, known as the Arrakeen Residency, was the great house in Arrakeen from which Arrakis was governed. It passed from the Fenrings to House Atreides, fell to the Harkonnens in the Siege of Arrakeen, and was retaken by Paul Atreides.
ArrakisArrakis, known as Dune and later as Rakis, was a harsh desert world in the Canopus system and the only natural source of the spice melange. Home to the Fremen and the sandworms, it became the seat of the Atreides empire and the center of the known universe.
Bela TegeuseBela Tegeuse was the fifth planet of the Kuentsing star system and reputedly the third stopping place of the Zensunni forced migration. Generations later it was conquered by the Honored Matres.
Caladan: the ocean world the Atreides leftA rain-soaked world orbiting Delta Pavonis, held by House Atreides for twenty generations. Paul was born there, before Arrakis.
CarthagCarthag was the capital of Arrakis during the rule of House Harkonnen, the larger and more populous of the planet's two great cities. When House Atreides took the fief in 10,191 AG, Duke Leto moved the capital to the more defensible Arrakeen.
Castle CaladanCastle Caladan was the official residence of the ruling clan of the planet Caladan and the home of House Atreides for twenty-six generations, until Duke Leto Atreides I was ordered to take up the fief of Arrakis in 10191 AG.
ChapterhouseChapterhouse was the Bene Gesserit term for the planet that served as the Sisterhood's home base. In its final form it was a hidden, deliberately unsettled world shielded from prescient eyes and, in the end, remade into desert to shelter the last sandworm.
ChusukChusuk was the Music Planet, the fourth world of the Theta Shalish system, renowned across the Imperium for its premium musical instruments. It was the home of Varota, and Navachristianity was its dominant religion.
EarthEarth, also called Old Earth, Terra, or Old Terra, was the planet of the al-Lat system on which the human species first arose. By the age of the God Emperor it survived chiefly as ancestral memory and as fragments of Terran life carried across the worlds of the Imperium.
Giedi PrimeGiedi Prime, later renamed Gammu, was the industrial homeworld of House Harkonnen, orbiting the star Ophiuchi B. A planet of factories, arenas, and an oppressed populace, it later passed to Atreides administration and eventually became a Bene Gesserit base.
GinazGinaz was an ocean world of scattered archipelagos and the ancestral home of House Ginaz. Its fierce warrior culture, ruled by the Council of Veterans, produced the legendary Swordmasters of the Imperium.
HagalHagal was the Jewel Planet, the second planet of Theta Shaowei. Mined out in the time of Shaddam I, it left behind the blue-green Hagal quartz of the Padishah Emperor's throne.
Imperial Opal PalaceThe Imperial Opal Palace was the residence of the Padishah Emperors of House Corrino, standing in Corrinth City on the capital world of Kaitain. Within its great audience hall stood the Golden Lion Throne, beneath the legend "Law is the ultimate science."
IxIx was the ninth planet of its star system and the great center of machine manufacture in the Known Universe. Its workshops produced the Imperium's most advanced technology, often skirting the proscriptions left by the Butlerian Jihad.
JunctionJunction was a world of the Spacing Guild, with meeting halls built to hold the tanks of its Navigators. In Chapterhouse: Dune it has fallen to the Honored Matres and becomes the scene of the war's last battle.
KaitainKaitain was the second capital of the Corrino Empire, the paradise world to which the Padishah Emperors moved their court from Salusa Secundus. It was the seat of Shaddam IV until the fall of his empire in the Desert War.
KolharKolhar was a cold, barren world near the Rossak system that Norma Cenva transformed into the manufacturing center for the first spacefolder vessels. Decades after the Butlerian Jihad it was reduced to a radioactive wasteland by Manford Torondo's atomics.
LankiveilLankiveil was a cold maritime world of the Corrino Empire whose chief export was whale fur. Held by House Harkonnen, it was governed for a time by Abulurd, who renounced the Harkonnen name in favour of his wife's family name, Rabban.
Old EarthOld Earth, also called Terra, was the planet of the al-Lat system on which the human species first arose. After the Butlerian Jihad it dwindled to a memory, preserved in ancestral recollection and in the scattered Terran flora and fauna seeded across the worlds of the Imperium.
PoritrinPoritrin was the third planet of Epsilon Alangue, held by many Zensunni Wanderers to be their planet of origin, and in the expanded universe a slave world where Zensunni captives laboured for the League of Nobles.
RossakRossak was a lush jungle world that served as a stop on the migration of the Zensunni Wanderers, and the place where an awareness-spectrum narcotic first unlocked the genetic memory of their Sayyadinas.
Salusa Secundus: the prison that bred terrorHouse Corrino's first homeworld became the empire's penal planet once the court moved to Kaitain. Its cruelty was said to breed the Sardaukar.
Shield WallThe Shield Wall was a towering mountain range in the northern reaches of Arrakis that sheltered a small region from the planet's coriolis storms and kept the sandworms from human settlements. Paul Atreides breached it with the Family Atomics during the Battle of Arrakeen.
SynchronySynchrony was the distant capital world of the reborn Thinking Machine empire, raised by the evermind Omnius and his counterpart Erasmus far from human space. It became the stage for the final reckoning of Kralizec, where Omnius was banished and the long war between man and machine reached its end.
TleilaxTleilax is the lone planet of the Thalim star and the homeworld of the Bene Tleilax, a religious and xenophobic people known for their Face Dancers, their gholas and the twisted Mentats trained there.
TupileTupile was the sanctuary region of the known universe, a group of worlds whose location was kept secret by the Spacing Guild. Under House Corrino it sheltered defeated and renegade Great Houses sent into exile.
Wallach IXWallach IX was the ninth planet of the Laoujin system and the seat of the Mother School of the Bene Gesserit. From it the Sisterhood trained its acolytes, convened its councils, and plotted against the House of Atreides.