Salusa Secundus is a fictional planet appearing in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. With harsh conditions rivaling those of the desert planet Arrakis, Salusa is used as the Imperial Prison Planet, and is one of two planets on which shigawire is grown (the other being III Delta Kaising).
In "Terminology of the Imperium," the glossary of the 1965 novel Dune, Herbert writes:
SALUSA SECUNDUS: third planet of Gamma Waiping; designated Imperial Prison Pl...
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