Anyone whom House Corrino decreed seditious or vile was sentenced to live out their remaining days in vicious conditions.īut what happened to them after they were exiled to the Imperium’s best known hellhole? It is unclear because the Padishah Emperor forbade any sort of survey or open records to be kept of the occurrences on Salusa Secundus. Think where Sigourney Weaver winds up in Alien 3-or really just the penal colony of Australia. However, after the Corrino House moved to a more glorious planet on Kaitain, they transformed their former homeworld into a prison planet. More ruthless and violent than Stormtroopers, the Sardaukar really are, as one of their officers boast, “The Emperor’s blades. We similarly saw the Sardaukar battalions wipe out most of Duke Leto Atreides’ armed forces and finally eradicate an entire Fremen stronghold (although not without incurring heavy losses themselves).
Yes, the loyal Atreides man stood bravely against the Sardaukar until the end, and even took a solid handful of them to the afterlife with him for company, but as he said earlier in Dune, “When you cross swords with a Sardaukar, you know it.” And in Duncan’s case, it was the last thing he ever knew. Well, as it turns out the Sardaukar of Frank Herbert and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune are no Stormtroopers, and anyone who thinks otherwise can ask the ghost of Duncan Idaho ( Jason Momoa) for proof. But to anyone who’s watched a Star Wars movie or nine, they’re not that threatening, right? This supposed scourge off the Empire-excuse me, Imperium-is built up to be unbeatable until our protagonists start mowing them down by the dozen. They’re soldiers the supposed elite the Emperor’s very own Sardaukar hit squad. An army of white-armored soldiers stand in perfect square formations beneath the comings and goings of Offworld spaceships. At a glance it feels like we’ve seen this song and dance before.
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