House Atreides
House Atreides is a House Major of the Imperium, ruled by a Duke from Castle Caladan on the ocean world of Caladan, and an old enemy of House Harkonnen.
The Atreides have held Caladan for twenty generations, and the patriarch of the family carries the title of Duke. Theirs is a House Major of the Imperium with a reputation built on the way it governs: light industry, an ordered society, a planet kept green and its people content, which is the standing reproach the Atreides make to Harkonnen rule on Giedi Prime. The line claims descent from a noble family of ancient Greece on Earth, and from King Agamemnon, son of Atreus, whose descendants were called Atreides. At the order of Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, Duke Leto Atreides I gives up Caladan for the siridar fief of Arrakis and the spice mining that comes with it.
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