2021年7月7日 · Leto suspects a trap, yes, but he doesn't know or suspect its true magnitude. House Harkonnen, an enemy of House Atreides, is expected to have left booby-traps, and to attempt to infiltrate the house-guard and generally mess with spice production operations, but he thinks that he can turn the situation around to the advantage of house Atreides.

2015年7月18日 · The Baron cannot forget that Leto is a cousin of the royal blood — no matter what the distance — while the Harkonnen titles came out of the CHOAM pocketbook. But the poison in him, deep in his mind, is the knowledge that an Atreides had a Harkonnen banished for cowardice after the Battle of Corrin.” “The old feud,” Yueh muttered

2012年4月18日 · House Atreides was forced into moving to Dune because they could not refuse Shaddam's request without appearing either foolish or disloyal or both. House Atreides fully understood the defensive situation that they were put in by the Emperor (Hawat was no fool), and the first book begins with this given assumption.

2021年11月3日 · Now the Harkonnens were leaving to be replaced by the House of Atreides in fief-complete — an apparent victory for the Duke Leto. Yet, Hawat had said, this appearance contained the deadliest peril, for the Duke Leto was popular among the Great Houses of …

2021年7月26日 · After the Atreides moved to Arrakis, Count Hasimir Fenring was named Siridar-Absentia of Caladan. However, when House Atreides ascended to the Golden Lion Throne in 10193 AG following the Arrakis Revolt, Caladan once again came under the direct rule of the Atreides. And control over Arrakis was returned to House Harkonnen.

2021年7月8日 · This was the profoundly misunderstood power of the Atreides bastard, the power that he transmitted to his son, the Tyrant. It evidently discusses the power of prophecy: In a deep and portentous tone, Odrade said: “The Manifesto raises questions that all must address, believers and non-believers alike.”

2017年1月17日 · Moving the Atreides to Arrakis provides a perfect cover story as to why the Harkonnens decided to destroy the Atreides in such a thorough, expensive way; they want Arrakis back. The Emperor certainly understood the potential of the Fremen, but probably didn't realize how many of them there were, and the attack happened too fast for the Duke to ...

Had their breeding program gone according to plan and the Atreides heir was female, the plan could have been to orchestrate said attack and the female Atreides captured as spoils. With Paul, the motive could have been to eliminate this "wild" Kwisatz Haderach, which would set back the program many generations but surely BG have the patience.

2012年2月22日 · I think the answer is far simpler. Paul had genetically everything it took to be the BG Kwisatz Haderach and essentially was. The issue was more political. By being born a generation too early, the marriage between house Harkonnen and House Atreides did not occur resulting in a War with far reaching political consequences for the BG.

2024年10月23日 · In Lynch's Dune, House Atreides secretly developed sonic weapons and trained elite troopers to use them. The emperor feared of Atreides' sonic weapons and therefore conspired with House Harkonnen to destroy them on Arrakis. The Holtzman shield is a personal defensive force field based on the "Holtzman effect".