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The Sardaukar are a Fictional army from Frank Herbert 's Dune Universe , as depicted in the '' Dune '' series of Science-fiction novels. They are the soldier-fanatics of the Padishah Emperor and the Corrino dynasty. Sardaukar are the soldiers of House Corrino who rules the known universe (the ''Imperium'') at the time of ''Dune''. Until Paul Atreides organizes the Fremen on Arrakis , they are the foremost soldiers in the universe and are feared by all. The Sardaukar are the key to House Corrino's hold on the Imperial throne. They are sometimes referred to as House Sardaukar, suggesting the emperor's elite troops enjoy high social status in Herbert's Feudal Society . Sardaukar are trained from infancy on the planet Salusa Secundus , House Corrino's original (and environmentally barren) homeworld as well as the formal Capital world of the Empire prior to the Butlerian Jihad . Known to the rest of the Imperium as the Emperor's Prison Planet, Salusa Secundus is home to the vicious training grounds of the Sardaukar, who fight voraciously in a mock-up of natural selection - ensuring that only the best enter formal Imperial service. Like the Fremen on the planet Dune, the intense difficulties of simply surviving the barren terrain and fellow populace on Salusa Secundus leave only the toughest alive. Further, their training emphasized ruthlessness and near-suicidal disregard for personal safety. In conjunction with intense conditioning for loyalty to the Emperor , the Sardaukar are estimated as worth ten times their number in Landsraad house levies. The Sardaukar are normally organized under legions, each composed of ten brigades of roughly 30,000 soldiers each, and it is said that one legion alone can pacify any planet foolish enough to incur the Emperor's wrath. However, the Sardaukar have become far more complacent during the reign of Emperor Shaddam IV , when appropriations for training went down while the number of Bursegs (generals) increased. By the time of the novel ''Dune'' (the coming of Paul Atreides as the prophesied Muad'Dib), the Sardaukar were defeated by the Fremen on Arrakis and House Corrino lost the Imperial throne to House Atreides. During Children Of Dune , Princess Wensicia, daughter of the deposed Emperor Shaddam IV , initiates a plot for the return to power of her family and the Sardaukar. However, her son Farad'n voluntarily surrendered them to the new Emperor, Leto Atreides II . Leto later disbanded the Sardaukar and replaced them with the Fish Speakers . Before the time of the novel '' God Emperor Of Dune '', one of Leto II's many Gholas (clones) of Duncan Idaho led the remnants of the Sardaukar in an unsuccessful revolt. The defeat on Dune, the Sardaukar's later revolt against the God Emperor, and the general decline of the Sardaukar organization all finally caused the abolishment of the Sardaukar corps. They were replaced by the female Fish Speakers , who in time, by and large, had Sardaukar blood in their veins. |
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