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28 entries tagged Planets. Every entry is sourced from Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, the later companion titles, or the official reference material.

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 colloquially as the Arrakeen Residency, was the largest building in Arrakeen and the seat of planetary power on Arrakis. 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.
CaladanCaladan was a lush oceanic world orbiting Delta Pavonis, the ancestral seat of House Atreides for more than ten thousand years. Birthplace of Duke Leto I and Paul Atreides, it was a planet of rain, orchards, and fisheries before the family was ordered to 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 of the Theta Shaowei star system, the source of many of the crown jewels of the known universe. Mined out under Shaddam I, it yielded the blue-green quartz throne of later Padishah Emperors.
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 the primary world of the Spacing Guild, headquarters of the Guild and its bank and home to the only Navigator school. Its surface was almost entirely covered with landing fields and repair bays for Heighliners.
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 favor 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 a quiet agricultural world of the Epsilon Alangue system, held in Zensunni belief to be the homeworld of the Zensunni Wanderers and remembered by the Fremen as their planet of origin.
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 SecundusSalusa Secundus was the harsh homeworld of House Corrino during its early history and, after the court moved to Kaitain, the empire's prison planet. Its brutal environment was widely believed to be the secret breeding ground of 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 was the sole planet of the Thalim star system and the homeworld of the Bene Tleilax, a society of genetically altered, religious, and xenophobic humans known for their biological laboratories and their Face Dancers.
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.