Jᴀᴄᴜʀᴜᴛᴜ - Tʜᴇ Cᴀsᴛ Oᴜᴛ

Freakzilla wrote:Real power in the Landsraad lies in CHOAM contracts and directorships, ruling a planet does you no good if that planet doesn't have a product.

The Atreides Emperors probably just pulled the Harkonnen fangs by stripping them of their CHOAM holdings like Paul did to Shaddam, and left them on their poor homeworlds.

I don't recall any exports from Geidi Prime being mentioned.

Heretics of Dune wrote:In the time of the Old Empire and even under the reign of Muad'dib, the
region around the Gammu Keep had been a forest reserve, high ground
rising well above the oily residue that tended to cover Harkonnen land.
On this ground, the Harkonnens had grown some of the finest pilingitam,
a wood of steady currency, always valued by the supremely rich. From
the most ancient times, the knowledgeable had preferred to surround
themselves with fine woods rather than with the mass-produced artificial
materials known then as polastine, polaz, and pormabat latterly: tine, laz,
and bat). As far back as the Old Empire there had been a pejorative label
for the small rich and Families Minor arising from the knowledge of a
rare wood's value.

SadisticCynic wrote:

Heretics of Dune wrote:In the time of the Old Empire and even under the reign of Muad'dib, the
region around the Gammu Keep had been a forest reserve, high ground
rising well above the oily residue that tended to cover Harkonnen land.
On this ground, the Harkonnens had grown some of the finest pilingitam,
a wood of steady currency, always valued by the supremely rich. From
the most ancient times, the knowledgeable had preferred to surround
themselves with fine woods rather than with the mass-produced artificial
materials known then as polastine, polaz, and pormabat latterly: tine, laz,
and bat). As far back as the Old Empire there had been a pejorative label
for the small rich and Families Minor arising from the knowledge of a
rare wood's value.

Here ya go!

SandChigger wrote:You're never a "bad person" for pointing out places where FH made mistakes or was lazy, because he was only human and we don't worship him as some infallible being.