List organizations of Dune
The Univers of Dune is composed of several principal organizations having an appreciable effect on the course of the events. Among those one counts:
Landsraad
See also: Landsraad
See also: Large Houses
The Landsraad, made up of the Major and Minor Houses and chaired by the emperor Padishah Shaddam IV, constitutes the structure of the capacity in place in Impérium before the reign of Leto II. It originates in the Ligue of Noble the, representatives of the free worlds at the time of the War of the Machines. However, some organizations evolve/move independently in Landsraad and are not subject to any influence of this one. It is about the Bene Gesserit, of the Bene Tleilax, the space Guilde, CHOM and the Fremen, as well as smugglers of Dune.
The Gesserit Bucket
See also: Bucket Gesserit
Exclusively female organization founded by Raquella Berto-Anirul, natural grand-daughter of Vorian Atréides. The Bene Gesserit has as a intention the creation of a male supreme being, the Kwisatz Haderach, equipped with the gift of Prescience, which will guide humanity towards a hypothetical golden age. Their genetic program, on foot since hundreds of generations, must lead to the creation of this being. The members of the Bene Gesserit are the Révérendes Mères. The apprenties bear the name of Assistants.
The Bene Gesserit also exerts its mission of religious preparation on certain people, like the Fremen, in their instilling concepts of prophecies and divinities, the Missionaria Protectiva , which is judicious religieusement to prepare these people in the interest of the Bene Gesserit.
The sisters of the Bene Gesserit are capable of an extreme control of their organization and their Psyché. That implies a total control of the biochemical functions of their body as well as a self-control intended to hide their emotions while reading in those of the other people. Certain Sisters develop this capacity in order to obtain the title of Diseuse of Truth, able to distinguish the truth of the lie by certain harbingers of their interlocutor (sweat, tremors, production of volatile hormones, etc). The sisters moreover are very well prepared with the close combat. The whole of these capacities is in general accessible since a particular state of concentration called Prana-Bindu.
The Sœurs have also the capacity to have recourse to the Interior Mémoires, where all the consciences of their ancestors of with dimensions female can intervene, conferring on the Révérende Mère all the last experiments of these ancestors. This capacity originates in the transformation of the Brandy (Liquor of Épice, substrate obtained by drowning a Ver small size) by their organization, ceremonial where the assistant in phase to become sudden Révérende Mère a fright extremely testing which releases the Interior Memories and returns them available to the sister undergoing the fright of the Épice.
The member of the Bene Gesserit whose life and actions influence more the Cycle of Dune is Jessica Atréides, concubine of the Duke Leto Atréides and mother of Paul Muad' Dib Atréides.
The space Guild
See also: space Guild
Founded by Cenva Normalized (inventive engines with space folded as well as hangers and brilleurs, technologies based on the Holzman effect), the Guild is founded after the end of the Jihad Butlérien on the bases established by the Venkee. The calendar of the Cycle of Dune is based besides over the year of the foundation of the Guilde.
During Jihad Butlérien, Aurelius Venport founds with Tlulaxa (old term designating the people Tleilaxu) Tuk Keedair the Venkee, shipping company of various goods on a sidereal scale. It is however the daughter-in-law of Aurelius, Norma Cenva, mathematician of genious, which will develop the engines with folded space and which will inherit the company of his/her father-in-law. First of all to military vocation during Jihad Butlérien, her vessels thereafter will become the standard means of transport of all the Universe, which will revolutionize the report/ratio that with the man with respect to the concept of space voyage and will develop the dispersion of the people in the Universe, thus giving a new vision of humanity. These voyages release a significant religious connotation in addition.
Normalized Cenva, not having never found of average mechanics of guidance for its vessels which are likely with each voyage to plunge in a star or a meteorite, discovered that its body, exposed with amounts quasi-mortals of spice, undergoes a physical transformation. The body is atrophied whereas its cranium increases volume. Thus, Norma acquires the gift of prescience and physical appearance specific to all the Navigators and Quartermasters of the Guilde. This gift of vision of the future enables them to predict the sourest road to borrow at the time of the voyage in folded space. The Navigators live in suspension in an enormous tank saturated with Épice in gas form. They are not human any more, are regarded as superiors.
The Guilde has the monopoly of space transport since its foundation and enjoys independence compared to the Landsraad. It can be very influential politically but remains vulnerable on a point, that of its dependence to the Epice, vital so that the Navigators can find their way in space.
The Tleilax Bucket
See also: Bucket Tleilax
The Bene Tleilax (in the past Tlulax Bucket) is defined by people Humanoïde (smaller than the human ones, with the skin grisâtre and the pointed teeth) having apparently evolved/moved in margin of humanity. This tribe fanatic and very contained on itself enjoys a total independence vis-a-vis the Landsraad. Tleilax is very technologically advanced, more particularly in the fields of the Génétique and the human Clonage: manufacture of clones, called Ghola, and Dancer-Faces, human Hermaphrodites and polymorphic used as spies or assassins, being able to adopt the face and the character traits of no matter whom. Tleilax is also the source of Mentats twisted, such as Piter de Vries. All these beings, Gholas including, are born in the Cuves Axolotl. These tanks are being of the Tleilaxu females to the deformed body and the hypertrophied reproductive bodies, fruit of the marriage of the technology and sciences of the reproduction. Doubts plane in addition on the Bene Tleilax when with the respect of prohibited of Jihad Butlérien.
The Bene Tleilax has a planet system whose principal one shelters their capital, Bandalong. It is a city crowned prohibited with the Powindahs (non-Tleilaxus).
Mentats
See also: Mentat
The first Mentat was Gilbertus Alban, fruit of an experiment undertaken by the robot independent Erasme at the time of the war of the machines. This human was formed with computation on more than twenty degrees and thus developed capacities of reasoning and deduction similar to a Ordinateur. However, one does not know any more about the foundation of this university, with share which it was just established after the Jihad Butlérien.
The mentats are used as human computers. They are excellent strategists, but are more generally employed with various tasks of calculation, in the Grandes Houses or with CHOM for example.
The CHOM
See also: CHOM (Dune)
The Combine of the Honest Ober-Merchants, organization having for origin the VenKee, babbit metal trade within Impérium and more particularly that of the Epice, which confers an influence to him sizeable near the large actors of Impérium.
Truitesses
See also: Truitesses
Armed with exclusively female elite, the Truitesses take seat in the Cycle of Dune only at the time of the reign of Leto II . Employed as close guard of Leto II, they also occupy each planet of Impérium in order to sit there the concepts and directives of Emperor-God. The Truitesses are completely devoted to their Empereur and it is for this reason, in opposition to an army of men inclines with treason and the interested violence, which it constituted his army only women.
Honoured Matriarches
See also: Honoured Matriarches
Female order presenting several common points with the Bucket Gesserit (ease with the close combat, hierarchy matriarcale, will to sit its influence) but opposite to this one, the Honorées Matriarches appear after the Dispersion of humanity according to the reign of Leto II. Having apparently been founded by old Truitesses resulting from the Great Dispersion, this order tries to reverse the Bene Gesserit and to impose a capacity stable, absent from Impérium at this time.
These women are laid out with violence, the mixture of substitution for the Epice containing adrenalin which they absorb in is the primary reason. The Honorées Matriarches also developed the attraction which they can cause at a man, so that they make use of their control of the sexual techniques in order to control the powerful ones in their interest. These are they which atomized the planet Rakis, known in the past under the name of Arrakis.
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