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The '''Dune universe''' (or '''Duniverse''') is the fictional universe (including characters, events and setting) created by [[Frank Herbert]] in his [[Dune novels]]. The Duniverse has been expanded through the [[Dune Encyclopedia]], the [[New Dune novels]] of [[Brian Herbert]] and [[Kevin J. Anderson]], the [[Dune movies]] and the [[Dune games]]. However, there is ongoing debate as to whether these later additions should be treated as [[canon]] alongside Frank Herbert's original novels.
==Dune novels==
===The Original Novels===

''Main Article: [[Dune]]''

''Main Article: [[Dune Messiah]]''

''Main Article: [[Children of Dune]]''

''Main Article: [[God Emperor of Dune]]''

''Main Article: [[Heretics of Dune]]''

''Main Article: [[Chapterhouse: Dune]]''

Separate from these novels Frank Herbert also published a book of poetry called [[Songs of Muad'Dib]] and a story called The Road to Arrakeen in the collection [[Eye]].

===The Dune Encyclopedia===

''Main article: [[Dune Encyclopedia]]''

Edited by Dr. Willis E. McNelly, a long time friend of Frank Herberts, this collection of articles looks to explain and expand many aspects of the Duniverse. However, it intentionally contains incorrect information (as it is supposedly part of the propaganda that is the Rakis Horde) and was completed before the last three Dune novels, so many parts of it contradict the actual books. While officially it is not "[[canon]]" many fans take it to be so, preferring it over the recent prequel novels by [[Brian Herbert]] and [[Kevin J. Anderson]].

=== The House Trilogy ===

==== House Atreides ====

''Main article: [[Dune: House Atreides]]''

The first book of the Houses trilogy, it tells the life of a young [[Leto Atreides]] and how he becomes the new [[Dukes|Duke]] of [[House Atreides]]. It also explores the lives of various other characters from [[Dune]], like [[Duncan Idaho]] and [[Shaddam Corrino|Shaddam IV Corrino]], and introduces several new characters, like [[Rhombur Vernius]]

==== House Harkonnen ====

''Main article: [[Dune: House Harkonnen]]''

The second book of the Houses trilogy, it spans the most amount of years of the three Houses books. It tells of how [[House Atreides]] grows in power, the inhabitants of [[Ix]] suffering under the opression of the [[Bene Tleilax|Tleilaxu]] and the [[Sardaukar]] and the family problems of [[House Harkonnen]]

==== House Corrino ====

''Main article: [[Dune: House Corrino]]''

The last book of the Houses trilogy.

===Legends of Dune Trilogy===

==== The Butlerian Jihad ====

''Main article: [[Dune: The Butlerian Jihad]]''

==== The Machine Crusade ====

''Main article: [[Dune: The Machine Crusade]]''

==== The Battle of Corrin ====

''Main article: [[Dune: The Battle of Corrin]]''

===Dune 7 and 8===

''Main article: [[Hunters of Dune]]''

''Main article: [[Sandworms of Dune]]''

===Paul of Dune===

Another prequel trilogy by [[Brian Herbert]] and [[Kevin J. Anderson]], this series is set to focus on the time period between [[House Corrino]] and [[Dune]] with the main subject being the early life of Paul Atreides. The three titles are tentatively Paul of Dune, Jessica of Dune and Irulan of Dune.

===Junior Dune===

Very little is known about this planned series of books. All that has been released is that the targeted audience will be pre-teens, hence the current section title "Junior" Dune.

===Other Dune Books and Stories===

''Main article: [[Dreamer of Dune]]''

''Main article: [[The Road to Dune]]''

''Main article: [[Whisper of Caladan Seas]]''

''Main article: [[Whipping Mek]]''

''Main article: [[Hunting Harkonnens]]''

''Main article: [[Dune (storybook)]]''

''Main article: [[Secrets of Frank Herberts Dune]]''

==Dune movies==

[[Dune (movie)|Dune]] Dir. David Lynch (1984)

[[Dune (miniseries)|Frank Herbert's Dune]] Dir. John Harrison (2000)

[[Children of Dune (miniseries)|Children of Dune]] Dir. Greg Yaitanes (2003)

==Dune games==

===Dune I===
''Main article: [[Dune (computer game)]]''

===Dune II===
''Main article: [[Dune II]]''

===Dune 2000===
''Main article: [[Dune 2000]]''

===Emperor: Battle For Dune===
''Main article: [[Emperor: Battle for Dune]]''

===Frank Herbert's Dune===
''Main article: [[Frank Herbert's Dune]]''

===Dune===

''Main article: [[Dune (board game)]]''

==Failed Dune Projects==

===Jodorowsky's ''Dune''===

''Main article: [[Jodorowsky's Dune]]''

A failed attempt by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky to film ''Dune'' which would have starred [http://www.surrealism-artlinks.com/Artist/salvador-dali/ Salvador Dali] as the Emperor and taken great liberties with the original text.

===Dune: The Series===

After the success of the 2000 miniseries Frank Herberts Dune several ideas for a TV series based on Dune were explored, but none of them have, to date, came to fruition.

===Dune: Generations===
''Main article: [[Dune Generations]]''

A MMORPG based on the Duniverse and made by Cryo Interactive. Unfortunately the company went out of business before the game could be completed.

===The Butlerian Jihad===

The Butlerian Jihad was to be a novel co-written by Frank Herbert and Dr. Willis E. McNelly about the Butlerian Jihad, as described in the Dune Encyclopedia. Only a rough draft of two chapters were ever written, and those were written entirely by Dr. McNelly due to Frank Herbert's passing.

The [[Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad|book]] was in fact later written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

===Emperor: Alliances===

''Main article: [[Emperor Alliances]]''

A never produced sequel to the video game [[Emperor: Battle for Dune]].

===Dune Role Playing Game===

''Main article: [[Dune (RPG)]]''

A role playing game along the lines of Dungeons and Dragons, this was in production for several years before it was finally canceled

==Dune online==
Dune has a sprawling presence on the world wide web. It has spawned websites dedicated to everything from news coverage to RPG's to simple synopsis' of the novels. The most prominate forms of online presence are news sites/forums and clan sites. One of the larger news site is [[FED2k]].

The [[clans]] were groups of players of Dune 2000 and Emperor: Battle for Dune who joined together in separate groups in order to enhance there enjoyment of the game and to foster rivalries.

User:EmoDeathMachine

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EmoDeathMachine:

'''Name:''' Joe...<br>
'''Location:''' FL, USA<br>
'''Age:''' 18

Umm.... Major Dune Fan? Major Computer Geek? Knowledgeable in the ways of the wiki?

Yes. Yes. And Yes.

User:Flaze

2006-11-18T16:51:55Z

EmoDeathMachine:

This user is to have everything he submits deleted. He has defaced many articles which I have since fixed. He places a number of links at the bottoms of pages. [[User:EmoDeathMachine|EmoDeathMachine]] 08:51, 18 November 2006 (PST)

Sardaukar

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The '''Sardaukar''' are an army from [[Frank Herbert]]'s [[Dune universe]]. They are the soldier-fanatics of the Padishah Emperor and the Corrino dynasty.

Sardaukar are the soldiers of [[House Corrino]] who rules the known universe (the Imperium) at the time of ''Dune''. Until [[Paul Atreides]] organizes the [[Fremen]] on [[Arrakis]], they are the foremost soldiers in the universe and are feared by all. The Sardaukar are the key to House Corrino's hold on the Imperial throne. They are sometimes referred to as House Sardaukar, suggesting the emperor's elite troops enjoy high social status in Herbert's feudal society.

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 Secundus 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 Secundus 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, each composed of ten brigades 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. However, the Sardaukar have become far more complacent during the reign of Emperor [[Shaddam IV Corrino|Shaddam IV]], when appropriations for training went down while the number of Bursegs (generals) increased. By the time of the novel ''Dune'' (the coming of Paul Atreides as the prophesied Muad'Dib), the Sardaukar were defeated by the Fremen on Arrakis and House Corrino lost the Imperial throne to House Atreides.

During [[Children of Dune]], Princess Wensicia, daughter of the deposed Emperor [[Shaddam IV Corrino|Shaddam IV]], initiates a plot for the return to power of her family and the Sardaukar. However, her son [[Farad'n Corrino|Farad'n]] voluntarily surrendered them to the new Emperor, [[Leto II Atreides]]. Leto later disbanded the Sardaukar and replaced them with the [[Fish Speakers]].

Before the time of the novel ''[[God Emperor of Dune]]'', one of Leto II's many [[ghola|gholas]] (clones) of [[Duncan Idaho]] led the remnants of the Sardaukar in an unsuccessful revolt.

The defeat on Dune, the Sardaukar's later revolt against the God Emperor, and the general decline of the Sardaukar organization all finally caused the abolishment of the Sardaukar corps. They were replaced by the female [[Fish Speakers]], who in time, by and large, had Sardaukar blood in their veins.

===Depictions in Games===

===Dune 2000===

The Sardaukar in the Dune 2000 video game are available only to House Harkonnen. They function as the highest level of combat infantry available to Harkonnen.

At a cost of 200 Solaris per-man the Sardaukar are quite expensive, but are highly effective.
Their rapid fire weapons do respectable damage to infantry, armoured vehicles and buildings. The Sardaukar are also quite heavily armoured, increasing the survivability in combat, though they are still vulnerable to being mown down by heavy tracked vehicles such as tanks. For this reason they are best used either behind a shield of vehicles or deployed on rock formations which are accessible only to infantry.

===Emperor: Battle for Dune===

The Sardaukar in Emperor come in two varieties: Sardaukar and Sardaukar Elite.
The basic Sardaukar comes equipped with heavy armour and a mini chain gun type weapon which is highly effective against infantry. Used in large numbers these weapons can destroy vehicles, but are not really suited to this task. Against almost any kind of infantry the Sardaukar all all but unstoppable.
Their weaknesses are the same as with many infantry units. They can quickly be mown down and crushed by any large vehicle and their heavy armour is almost no protection against fire based weapons which can kill them almost instantly.
The Sardaukar suffer from another notable weakness - the animation for their firing their weapons is rather long and is uninterruptible. Moving the Sardaukar during the firing animation is impossible, leaving them sitting ducks and vulnerable to being run down by tanks or targeted by long range anti-infantry artillery such as Inkvine Catapults.

The upgraded to the Sardaukar barracks allows access to Sardaukar Elite. These units have the most hit-points of any infantry unit in the game and can take immense amounts of punishment.
Their equipment comes in two varieties - a medium ranged lasgun which is effective against vehicles but very weak against infantry; and a combat knife for close range combat against enemy foot soldiers.
These knives will kill almost any enemy infantryman in one hit, but the Sardaukar Elite is liable to take damage as he closes the distance with his target.

Leto Atreides I

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