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re: Salusa Secundus
You’re entirely right, Cholister. Salusa Secundus, third planet of Gamma Waiping, until the time of the Butlerian Jihad, was the imperial capital. It was the home planet of House Corrino and of Serena Butler herself. In the great war against the thinking machines, it was devastated by the use of atomics and this threw the planet off its axis, into a more distant orbit. This made conditions on the planet surface even more grim and unstable.
After removal of the Imperial Court to Kaitain, Salusa Secundus was designated the Imperial Prison Planet. It was also the second stopping point in the migration of the Wandering Zensunni who were enslaved there for nine generations but eventually settled on Dune and became the Fremen.
Shaddam IV, Padishah Emperor, also used it as the training ground for his elite Sardaukar troops, thereby keeping their strength and brutal efficiency hidden from his enemies.
It was also on Salusa Secundus that the Imperial Planetologist, Pardot Kynes, began his ecological studied, eventually to serve him well on Dune, where his son, Liet, carried forward his dream of greening that planet and freeing the Fremen.
God, it’s hard to keep the timelines clear in your head without the books to hand!
But, more importantly, WHY has shortfatdyke suddenly become Shortfatdyke? I feel the Earth move under my feet... I feel the sky tumblin' down, tumblin' down... |
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