EVIL HARKONNEN

The Planet Geidi Prime. Dark. Industrial. Toxic. Cruel.

The Baron Harkonnen, or Siridar-Baron - Planetary Governor. Like Geidi Prime, the Baron is dark. Cruel. Savage. Driven by greed - and a kanly, or vendetta - to use the Ancient Tongue - against Duke Leto and the entire House Atreides.

Hayt DeVries. Hayt is a Ghola, a reanimated corpse, purchased from the flesh-vats of the Planet Teilaxu. Ruthless. Brilliant. Cold. Cruel. Egomaniacal. Like the House.

Immense wealth - the kind of wealth that buys incredibly powerful forbidden technologies; illegal weapons purchased from the house of Ix and then smuggled to the Ordos troops; aside from wealth, there is little military strength to House Ordos. Their troops are largely mercenary, and tend to desert with great frequency.

Geidi Prime is a dark, deranged world - as are the creatures of House Harkonnen. The Harkonnen are a cruel people, equally ruthless toward friend and foe, if necessary. The Harkonnens have a long history of employing violence and fear to achieve their objectives. In House Harkonnen, status is not bestowed. It is taken. Treachery upon treachery, assassin upon assassin - our spies cannot keep up with the rapid shifting of military rank in the Harkonnen forces. Excepting, of course, the nearly totalitarian control of the baron.

Nothing will stop the Baron Harkonnen in his pursuit of Dune. Formerly the sole stewards of the Spice harvesting operations on Arrakis, the Harkonnen feel deprived of something which they believe to be rightfully theirs - the Governorship of Dune. As the Baron has sworn to cut the ducal ring from the hand of Leto - it is highly unlikely that he would tolerate an Atreides victory over Dune.

The Ram.