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Factions & Groups

22 entries in the Dune compendium.

Factions & Groups — Era Chart

Bene Gesserit1965CHOAM Company1965House Atreides1965House Harkonnen1965Suk Doctors1965House Corrino1965Spacing Guild Navigato1965Spacing Guild1965House Vernius1965
Bene GesseritA sisterhood trained over millennia to steer the future of humanity.LandsraadThe council that keeps the Emperor in check and the Great Houses from devouring each otherCHOAM CompanyWhere wealth is measured in shares and spice dictates the balance of power.House AtreidesThirty-five years before Dune, three narratives converge to forge a legacy of honor and inSardaukarForged in hell, they are the Emperor's iron fist that never breaks.House HarkonnenPower without conscience; strength without honor.FremenThe desert people who turned sand into a weapon and water into life.Suk DoctorsThe only physicians who cannot harm their patients, no matter the cost.Zensunni WanderersDriven from world to world until they found their destiny in the deep sands of Arrakis.Swordmasters of GinazIn an age of guns, they were the last masters of the blade.House CorrinoThe Emperor's synthetic spice war and the birth of a new lineage set the stage for the empCHOAMIn a universe ruled by sand and spice, the true power belongs to those who control the ledThe Great Houses of the LandsraadAncient houses dance on a razor's edge, where one miscalculation shatters the peace of theTleilaxuThey sell resurrection, but their price is your very soul.AtreidesWhere water is life, spice is power, and honor is the sharpest blade.CorrinoRulers of a galaxy forged on a penal world, undone by their own hubris.Spacing Guild NavigatorsBlind to the light of day, they navigate by the threads of tomorrow.Spacing GuildThe monopoly on stars, bound by spice and prescience.Missionaria ProtectivaThe black arm of superstition protecting sisters through centuries of seeded myth.House VerniusThe exiled rulers of Ix who traded flesh for cybernetics to survive the Emperor's wrath.House IxThe site of Project Amal and a joint Tleilaxu/Sardaukar invasion thirty-five years before House RicheseNo records survive in the Landsraad archives for this name.
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