A/N: This is my first fic, so please give some feedback to how I can improve. I know it isn't much, but I promise there will be more action (or, if u like, Ordos victories) later on.
Disclaimer: Lemme think: umm……… (one hour later) umm……… (Solarian Date 10103-03) AHA! I remember now! I don't own Dune or any of the House names or Arrakis in any way: I just own Korban Ashuran and the Black Guard.
Heir to the Throne
10105-10153 AGC
Arrakis. A planet like no other in the Imperium. This was a desert world, inhabited by the villagers of the pans and sinks of the Northern Polar Region, the scattered but deadly nomads known as Fremen, and, last of all, the mighty sandworms.
It is also the only place in the Pashidah Emperor's Imperium where the coveted Spice Melange is found.
Spice, the mysterious substance that baffled even the top scientists of the Imperium, had amazing qualities: It could prolong human life, serve as a drug to make possible the Spacing Guild, but, over all these things, it was addictive. Great wars have been fought in the past over the control of the planet, but that was over two centuries ago, before Shaddam the Wise took over. Due to the life-prolonging effects of the Spice, all had been well, until it was found that the Emperor had died, without leaving an heir….
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War was brewing.
The three rivals, the Great Houses of the noble House Atreides, the evil House Harkonnen, and the devious House Ordos were again, as two centuries before, had begun to vie for control of the planet Dune. All of a sudden, the military of the 3 Houses and their allies began mobilizing.
The Infantry on Arrakis were put on a higher state of combat readiness. All vehicles, from the smallest Dust Scout to the largest Minotaurus siege machine, were immediately put on war frigates and sent on the first Guild Heighliner available to their strongholds on Arrakis. All Aircraft were updated with more modern, state of the art shielding technology, just developed before the war by the Ixians, an ally of the Ordos. All of each houses' nuclear inventory were activated and brought to a state of full combat readiness, though the use of them were prohibited by the Great Convention, a charter that outlined the laws of the Imperium. All that each side needed was an excuse to attack with all their massed firepower…
A/N: So, what do u think? Please review.
-Blackraven