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House Harkonnen
House Harkonnen
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From a Harkonnen Recruitment Pamphlet Were you meant for more? Do you seek opportunity abroad? Rejoice! Your fortune and your future await you on Arrakis! Join the Harkonnen cause, liberating Dune from the chaos wrought by unwise hands. Join the very luminaries of our House. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen guides our plans and maps our destinies from his seat on Giedi Prime. Glossu Rabban expertly executes those plans from Arrakis. His enemies know him as “Beast”, but you will know him as a great leader and protector. Even Feyd-Rautha graces the desert planet with his dashing presence. They say Arrakis is “the most dangerous planet”. But “danger” is the coward’s word or “opportunity”. Do not fail to answer the call! Do not fail to seize your opportunity! Inquire about service permit to Arrakis today! Public Broadcast on Giedi Prime Loyal citizens and abiders of law, hearken. The operatic epic, The Battle of Corrin is hereby banned. This clumsy work of propaganda was commissioned by House Atreides itself and depicts Bashar Abulurd Harkonnen, the great ancestor of our own Baron Valdimir Harkonnen, in an unfavorable light, insinuating he fled the Battle of Corrin, while raising that true villain of ancient history, Demetrios Atreides, to the status of hero. Our wise Baron has commissioned a new epic, The Tragedy of Abulurd Harkonnen to better reflect the nuances of this history. In the meantime, all copies of The Battle of Corrin are to be destroyed and erased. Loyal citizens and abiders of law, any information leading to those illegally keeping this dangerous material will bring great reward. If you know something, say something. If you suspect your neighbor, say something. If you say nothing, what is your neighbor telling us about you? From the Personal Notes of Piter de Vries A vice well-handled is something my Baron celebrates. From top to bottom, this attitude permeates the culture of our entire power structure — the appetite that drives excellence. Euphoria and withdrawal. So many substances become the carrot and the stick all at once. “Well-handled”. That’s the trick, isn’t it? It’s an art that only us rare few handle with any grace. The truth is that addiction, particularly to Semuta, has become an epidemic within Harkonnen ranks. It is by great pains that we keep outsiders from seeing just how bad the situation is. Addiction is a most useful tool, but it occasions many messes that require tedious cleaning. Case in point: one Maxim Kazmir. He’s grown sloppy and will require pruning shortly. He may still have uses in the lower ranks, so long as we give him the fantasy that he might one day rise again. Carrot. Stick. | |
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