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under one roof, a fact that becomes more apparent when you learn Atreides attendants and their families, housed spaciously in the Palace Annex, number some thirty-five million souls When you walk into the Grand Reception Hall of the Palace at Arrakeen, be prepared to feel dwarfed before an immensity never before conceived. A statue of St. Alia Atreides, shown as "The Soother of Pains," stands twenty-two meters tall but is one of the smallest adornments in the hall. Two hundred such statues could be stacked one atop the other against the entrance pillars and still fall short of the doorway's capitol arch, which itself is almost a thousand meters below the first beams upholding the lower roof.
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architect had reached far back into history for these buttressed walls and dark hangings, she thought. The arched ceiling stood two stories above her with great crossbeams she felt sure had been shipped here to Arrakis across space at monstrous cost. No planet of this system grew trees to make such beams—unless the beams were imitation wood. She thought not.
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originally led by Naib Stilgar. Paul Atreides and his mother Lady Jessica, safely escaping from the Harkonnen attack, come upon Sietch Tabr and are eventually accepted into the community. In these Fremen Paul finds an incomparable fighting force who are already disgruntled by Imperial rule. He shapes
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Jessica stood in the center of the hall looking up and around at shadowed carvings, crannies and deeply recessed windows. This giant anachronism of a room reminded her of the Sisters' Hall at her Bene Gesserit school. But at the school the effect had been of warmth. Here, all was bleak stone. Some
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Your walking tour of Arrakis must include this approach across the dunes to the Grand Palace at Arrakeen. From a distance, the dimensions of this construction are deceptive The largest man-made structure ever built, the Grand Palace could cover more than ten of the Imperium's most populous cities
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The sandtrout was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry,
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them into a resistance movement that eventually takes control of Arrakis, allowing Paul to depose the Emperor. Paul moves his base of operations to Arrakeen, but Sietch Tabr remains a center of Fremen culture and politics, as well as a religiously significant site for those who worship Paul as a
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If you are numbered among "the heartfelt pilgrims," you will cross the last thousand meters of this approach to the Temple of Alia on your knees. Those thousand meters fall well within the sweeping curves leading your eyes up to the transcendent symbols dedicating this Temple to St. Alia of the
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for privacy from observation and weather control in order to hide from the Imperium their true population and their plans to terraform Arrakis. Much of this ecological activity took place in the unexplored southern latitudes of the planet. The best-known of the sietches is
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soldier-fanatics, and by threatening the destruction of all spice production on Arrakis manages to depose Shaddam and ascend the throne in his place. With Emperor Paul worshipped as a god, Arrakis becomes the governmental and religious center of the Imperium.
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to ultimately save humanity. Once he himself begins the transformation into a human/sandworm hybrid, he eradicates all desert on Arrakis except for a small area he makes his base of operations, and destroys all of the sandworms save one—himself.
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Knife. The famed "Sun-Sweep Window" incorporates every solar calendar known to human history in the one translucent display whose brilliant colors, driven by the sun of Dune, thread through the interior on prismatic pathways.
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There are other cities scattered in the northern regions of the planet (especially near the ice cap, where water is harvested), as well as the Fremen sietch communities scattered throughout the desert.
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Arrakeen would go through multiple transformations over time; it first becomes an Imperial capital of staggering proportions under Paul Muad'Dib. It is later transformed into a festival city known as
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are used "for carrying irrigation water under controlled conditions" through the desert. The Fremen collect water in underground reservoirs to fulfill their dream of someday
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All Imperial cities on Arrakis are in the far-northern latitudes of the planet and protected from the violent weather of Arrakis by a natural formation known as the
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had been completely demolished to provide the raw materials to build the high walls surrounding the Sareer. The Citadel itself is taken apart in the
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after Herbert's fictional planet, under the naming convention for Titanian planitia (which are all named for planets in Frank Herbert's works).
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exorbitant fees in melange to keep the skies over Arrakis free of any satellites which might observe their efforts. As indicated by its large
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The environment of the desert planet Arrakis was primarily inspired by the hydrocarbon (ie. oil and/or natural gas) wealthy Mexico and the
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had resided there. Leto I had chosen Arrakeen for his seat of government because it "was a smaller city, easier to sterilize and defend."
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notes that early in the history of Arrakis, the Imperium made several attempts to terraform the planet, which resulted in an abundance of
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that would, eventually, become lakes and oceans. Much of this activity takes place in the unexplored southern latitudes of Arrakis.
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has sold over 12 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling science fiction novel of all time ... Frank Herbert's
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Other notable sites on Arrakis throughout its history include Observatory Mountain, Mount Idaho, Dar-es-balat and the Kynes Sea.
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that wells drilled in the sinks and basins initially produce a "trickle" of water which soon stops, as if "something plugs it."
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it is established that Arrakis had been "His Imperial Majesty's Desert Botanical Testing Station" before the discovery of
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control of the lucrative spice harvesting operations of Arrakis, ousting the Atreides' longtime rivals, the
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technology, allowing them to survive in the open desert. By harvesting melange, they were able to bribe the
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During the reign of Muad'Dib until the ascension of his son Leto II, the Atreides home-base was a colossal
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wanderers, driven from planet to planet, eventually found their way to Arrakis, where they became the
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escape with a single sandworm, and drown it to revert the worm back into sandtrout. In
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ARRAKEEN: first settlement on Arrakis; long-time seat of planetary government. — 
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Arrakis into a green world, a plan begun by the Fremen under the guidance of Imperial
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also explains that one of the few forms to survive were tiny worms of the
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establishes that the first known inhabitants of Arrakis had been the
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after the death of Leto II in search of his alleged hoard of spice.
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Grand Palace of Arrakeen and dunes of Arrakis from Frank Herbert's "
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The significance of Arrakis has been discussed in the context of
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Herbert, Frank (1965). "Terminology of the Imperium: ARRAKIS".
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recalls that the few plants and animals on the planet include "
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wanderers), and subsequently is the Imperial Capital of the
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franchise was inspired by the desert planet of Arrakis in
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desert life on the planet (such as kangaroo mice and
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Fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series
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