The Ixians are a society in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert in his Dune series of novels. This society is named after its home planet Ix.
Its name is derived from the Roman numeral IX (their home planet is ninth of Alkalurops, whose name is Rodale by the time of 1000 years before Legends of Dune), and it specializes in the production of complex machinery including the Guild Heighliners and fighting machines. Often these mac...
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The Ixians are a society in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert in his Dune series of novels. This society is named after its home planet Ix.
Its name is derived from the Roman numeral IX (their home planet is ninth of Alkalurops, whose name is Rodale by the time of 1000 years before Legends of Dune), and it specializes in the production of complex machinery including the Guild Heighliners and fighting machines. Often these machines flout the proscriptions of the Butlerian Jihad which forbids the making of a machine in the likeness of the human mind.
At the beginning of Prelude to Dune the Ixians are ruled by House Vernius. Emperor Elrood IX, who desired a Melange substitute and who wanted to pay back Dominic Vernius for two offenses against him ('stealing' and marrying an Imperial concubine - later to be called Shando Vernius - from Elrood and making larger Heighliner ships, stripping Elrood of tax revenue), decided that a Tleilaxu invasion of Ix would kill two...
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