The Glorious Empire (Democratic Union)
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| Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer! | |||||
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| Anthem: Das Lied der Deutschen/Horst-Wessel-Lied | |||||
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| 'Official Language | English | ||||
| Capital | Kaitan (24,603,482) | ||||
| Largest City | Berlin | ||||
| Government | Absolute Monarchy | ||||
| Area - Total - % water |
4,820,666 km² 22.8% | ||||
| Population - Total (2006) |
2,726,000,000 | ||||
| Head of State and Head of Government | Padisah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV | ||||
| The Federation of the Glorious Empire | |||||
| Currency | 1 Spice Credt (SC) | ||||
| National animal | ' Golden Lion | ||||
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Contents
Butlerian Jihad
In a nutshell, thinking machines are created and are first used to serve man, but later begin to enslave mankind. The Butlerian Jihad is a crusade for the destruction of computers, robots, and anything that tries to replace the human mind with a machine (artificial intelligence). It is lead by Faykan Butler and after the Battle of Corrin He changes his name to Corrino and Declares himself Emperor of the Known Universe.
Salusa Secundus
House Corrino was driven from the lush planet of Salusa Secundus long before an atomic attack carried out by a rival House. This House was subsequently exterminated and no record of its name exists by the time of the overthrow of the Corrinos. The Corrinos relocated the Imperial capital to Kaitain and Salusa was left as a barren wasteland. It was publically believed that Salusa was the emperor's prison planet. However, it eventually emerged that House Corrino also made use of the planet as a training ground for the Sardaukar troops.
The Spice Melange
there is only one source of natural melange, the planet Arrakis (colloquially known as Dune). Melange is a geriatric drug that gives the user a longer lifespan, greater vitality, and heightened awareness; it can also unlock prescience in some subjects, depending upon the dosage and the consumer's physiology.
Melange, otherwise known as the spice, is the product of sandworms. Collecting it is hazardous in the extreme, since any activity on the desert surface of Arrakis attracts the worms, which are extremely large and dangerous. Thus, the mining operation essentially consists of vacuuming it off the surface with a harvesting machine until a worm comes, at which time a carry-all lifts the mining vehicle to safety. The Fremen, who have learned to co-exist with the sandworms in the desert, harvest the spice manually for their own use and for smuggling off-planet.
Spice is in general use all over the universe, and is a sign of wealth. To ingest it is the ultimate display of conspicuous consumption. The planet Arrakis is central to the inhabited worlds of the galaxy because it is the sole source of spice.
Later, an artificial method of producing the spice is discovered by the Bene Tleilaxu, who develop in secret the technology to produce melange from axlotl tanks later in the series. It was not fully successful in pushing natural melange out of the market place.
Although it is called "spice" and can be mixed with food, melange is truly a drug: it is physically addictive, it has psychotropic effects, and stopping its consumption causes death after a painful period of withdrawal (although taking spice daily extends one's life by hundreds of years). Due to its rarity and value, the group controlling spice production on Dune controls the fate of the Empire.
Imperial Sardaukar
Sardaukar are trained from infancy on the planet Salusa Secundus, House Corrino's original (and environmentally barren) homeworld as well as the formal Capital world of the Empire prior to the Butlerian Jihad. Known to the rest of the Empire as the Emperor's Prison Planet, Salusa Secondus is home to the vicious training grounds of the Sardaukar, who fight voraciously in a mock-up of natural selection - ensuring that only the best enter formal Imperial service. Like the Fremen on the planet Dune, the intense difficulties of simply surviving the barren terrain and fellow populace on Salusa Secondus leave only the toughest alive. Further, their training emphasized ruthlessness and near-suicidal disregard for personal safety. In conjunction with intense conditioning for loyalty to the Emperor, the Sardaukar are estimated as worth ten times their number in Landsraad house levies. The Sardaukar are normally organized under legions of roughly 30,000 soldiers each, and it is said that one legion alone can pacify any planet foolish enough to incur the Emperor's wrath
The Noble Houses of the Landraad
House Corrino House Corrino's ancestral planet was Salusa Secundus, the seat of imperial power since the Butlerian Jihad. Due to an unfortunate atomic explosion, House Corrino and the Golden Lion Throne moved to Kaitain. The offending house is unknown, erased from history. The harsh conditions of their homeworld encouraged the survival of the strong, and allowed the Corrinos to develop the universe's most-feared military units, the warrior-fanatic Sardaukar, the means by which House Corrino controlled the Empire.
House Harkonnen One of the great houses of the Imperium, the House Harkonnen is built on a simple foundation of fear and terror, two tactics that make the Baron Harkonnen's underlings that much more dangerous: risk death on the battlefield or suffer a slow, excruciating death in the Baron's chambers as he watches with relish. With an order based on treachery, soldiers rise through the ranks through deceit, trickery and, if necessary, assassination. Hailing from an industrial wasteland of a planet called Giedi Prime, the House Harkonnen is much like its Baron: cold, ruthless, egomaniacal, but brilliant and lethally efficient. Most of all, it's driven by a kanly (vendetta) against House Atreides. The vendetta originated when Vorian Atreides exposed the unwarranted shame of Abulurd Harkonnen at the Battle of Corrin when Abulurd Harkonnen refused an order issued by Vorian Atreides to kill millions of humans enslaved by machines. The Battle of Corrin is the battle that ended the Butlerian Jihad and founded the Imperium.
House Atreides This noble house hailing from the water planet of Caladan employs unlikely methods in its struggle to secure the spice of Arrakis: noble spirit, just ways and unfailing virtue. Ruling its homeworld Caladan for generations with justice and generosity, House Atreides has perfected a form of government that results in a well-organized society and a spiritually satisfied people. Little wonder that Caladan is the lush, prosperous paradise that it is. However, the House was also proficient in war; it had even developed an Atreides battle language
House Ordos House Ordos is a member of the Landsraad, the great council of the Imperium, and is one of the more powerful members of it. The House is from the ice planet Sigma Draconis, and is considered to be a mercantile house.
House Richese House Richese was a wealthy house before taking over the fiefdom of Arrakis, but the vast expenses required for the spice manufacturing contract, as well as an economic war with the more advanced House Vernius, bankrupted House Richese
House Vernius is one of the great houses of the Imperium, the feudal interstellar empire that forms the backdrop to the Dune novels. This house is the ruling power on the planet Ix. The main industry on Ix is machines that continuously test the bounds of the precepts set down by the Butlerian Jihad. The rival of House Vernius is House Richese, which also specializes in machinery, but doesn't create controversial machinery. The strongest ally of House Vernius is House Atreides.
World fact Book
Government Type- Feudal System
UN Catagory- Corperate Police State
Name- The Glorious Empire
Long Name- The Million World Empire of Glorious Empire
Short name- The Imperium
Military size- 50 Imperial Sardaukar Legions, 2,000,000 House Levies
Laws- Slavery is Legal
Allies- serinistad, Neferamity
Rivials- Socialist Freemen, Tetris L-Shaped Block
NOTE: This Nation is based on the Dune Novels by Frank Herbert and all of the Houses are also based on the Dune Novels by Frank Herbert. Information was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28novel%29
