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Bene Tleilax

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The Tleilaxu of the planet Tleilax, a secretive and genetically altered people whose skill with flesh makes them indispensable and detested at once.

The Tleilaxu inhabit Tleilax, the single planet of the star Thalim, and they are secretive, genetically altered, and cordially loathed almost everywhere else, a reaction that has never dented their appetite for getting the better of their rivals. They let the universe know them as a guild of genetic manipulators, the trade that makes them necessary to everyone and welcome nowhere. Their culture is isolationist, strictly hierarchical. The Tleilaxu are divided into classes, each with its own physical appearance and its own function.

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