In this animated documentary, we continue our exploration of the Frank Herbert’s Dune Universe and the Dune lore surrounding its most famous units of history.
We previously released a Dune lore primer called Welcome to Arrakis which will help introduce you to the setting: https://youtu.be/EaDxLCKFvlE
In this episode, we look specifically at the origins of the Sardaukar and how they rose to become the most feared soldiers of the known universe.
We begin with the initial colonists who settled the planet of Salusa Secundus and how their descendants eventually were reduced to savage tribes warring for existence across a brutal landscape.
Eventually, the Sardau tribe would rise to claim dominion of the planet and forge a regional Empire.
However, it would not be until the chaos which followed the Butlerian Jihad that they would truly emerge as a great power.
At the Battle Of Corrin they would ultimately grind the Landsraad to a standstill and crown the first Padishah Emperor.
We cover the equipment, training, and organization which made the Sardaukar of the imperial period so formidable.
This includes their Sardaukar religion and Sardaukar chant so unique to the mindset of their forces, which continued to be produced from the prison planet of Salusa Secundus.
Then we cover their extensive service history, which culminates in the Battle Of Arrakis against House Atreides and the Fremen.
What units of history and Dune lore should we cover next?
Credits Research = Invicta Script = Invicta Narration = Guy Michaels Artwork = Penta Limited
This dream involved someone getting chased by some people, I possibly somehow got involved and they started chasing me instead by mistake, but that is all that I can remember of this dream.
Dream 2
This dream took place during a gray day and I was riding in an automobile with some of my family like my mom, maybe my dad, and maybe one or more of my brothers.
My mom was driving, we were driving along a highway with forests on both sides of the road, and we were in a storm that got worse and worse.
There were other people driving in front and behind us, one automobile was driving way too closely behind us, and at some point their reckless driving and the wind of the storm caused an accident where the wind lifted our automobile in the air and it pushed the automobile in front of us off the road into the forest on the right side.
When we landed the reckless driver behind us possibly caused us to drive off the road into the forest on the right, and the wind blew us the rest of the way and we possibly had to jump out of the automobile.
Some automobiles possibly collided, maybe there was an explosion, but I can not remember.
Amazingly no one was hurt, not even the man in the automobile in front of us who had light-color skin, and we probably had a brief argument with the reckless driver who had been behind us who was a man with light-color skin who was somehow acting like this was our fault.
After checking on everyone and briefly talking we waited on emergency services to arrive, we waited in the forest, and we possibly heard police sirens but then things got quiet.
I felt that something was not right, I sensed that maybe the police and SWAT were about to raid the area falsely thinking that a terrorist attack had taken place or something, and so I went warn the others and I let them know to keep their hands up where the police can see them and follow their instructions if I was correct about this.
Suddenly at the opening of the forest I heard and saw something being dropped from above, I assumed that these were stun grenades, and so I yelled for everyone to look away and to not run and to keep their hands up because it was probably the police / SWAT.
I heard explosions behind me, I was the closest to the blast, and then I saw and heard SWAT roping down and yelling at us.
They were wearing camouflage military style uniforms and were fully armored (helmets, body armor, elbow pads, knee pads, and hard knuckle gloves) with everything having a matching military camouflage pattern (a MultiCam-like pattern) and they had black assault rifles (AR-15 style).
Thanks to my predictions and warning the others, no one was impacted by the stun grenades and everyone followed my recommendations so no one got shot, and I quickly let the police / SWAT know that this was simply an automobile accident / storm related accident so there were no threats here.
The police / SWAT calmed down after a quick search of the area and as I explained the situation to them, they called for assistance, and a somewhat tall female doctor / scientist with light-color skin with long maybe somewhat curly black hair wearing a white lab coat and maybe glasses arrived to check us for injuries as they waited for the fire department and a tow truck et cetera.
The female doctor / scientist was from the planet Salusa Secundus from the Dune franchise, she looked human but I wondered if she was human because I did not know that any humans were living on other planets especially not a planet like that which is that far away, and so I went to ask her about her planet and what other planets were inhabited and how many other sentient species had she met.
I can not remember her responses, I just remember my former uncle DE and maybe my male cousin ME showing up, and I remember briefly talking to them.
The next thing that I remember is possibly no longer being completely myself, I was possibly combined with the character Rimuru Tempest in human form from the anime television show That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime, and He / I went to a multi-story college / local government / multi-purpose-like building in a city.
He / I went up an alley to a side entrance on the right side of the building, some people happened to be going that way and let him / me in, and this was a special part of the building that only certain people were supposed to use.
The next thing that I remember is Rimuru / me returning to this same building and area, he / I was wearing maybe a white cap and gown (academic dress), and we entered an auditorium style classroom / political-looking room filled with other people wearing white cap and gowns and blue ones.
They were taking turns giving speeches in the center first floor area and having maybe political debates, Rimuru / I waited for our turn, but that is all that I can remember of this dream.
Dream 3
This dream was inspired by me watching part of episode 1 of the 2019 television show Flack before going to sleep.
Another part of the dream involved me thinking about trying some Dermasil lotion to see how good it is, but that is all that I can remember of this dream.
Dream 4
This dream once again possibly involved me being combined with the character Rimuru Tempest from That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime, and he / I were gathering together different sentient species to meet in a building in the wilderness near some corn / wheat fields or just fields of tall plants.
There was a small road that led to this building and dirt roads through the fields, and Rimuru / I seemed to be trying to get all the species to come together to form an alliance.
A group of small humanoids wearing white and black pinstripe suits approached the main road, they were led by a man / male whose appearance changed throughout the dream, with him having light-color skin at first and then medium-color skin and then dark-color skin and his height increased each time as well until he and the others were human-sized.
They seemed like a mafia or something, their leader acted like he wanted to kill Rimuru / me and take over the alliance and / or figure out another way to remove Rimuru / me from being the leader of the alliance, and so they seemed to be setting up their plans and secretly spreading their people around.
At some point the leader came to one of the meetings, he was taller now and had medium-color skin, and he was representing his people / species / mafia / whoever; but he just watched and listened and schemed quietly.
Later in the dream when the leader was maybe ready to try to overthrow Rimuru / me, he leader was taller and had dark-color skin with black hair, and he looked like the actor Mahershala Ali.
He was riding on the back of an old tan convertible four-door car, maybe a Lincoln or Oldsmobile, and he was riding confidently in a convoy of automobiles slowly sneaking up the road to the building to probably try to kill Rimuru / me when most people were gone.
Rimuru / I had saw them approaching, he / I did something but the dream jumped in time so that I did not know what he / I did, and as the convoy approached they noticed some bloody human-looking bones and then some larger non-human bones that eventually blocked them from reaching the building.
They sensed a possible trap but they turned through the dirt roads between the fields, they were on high alert, and Rimuru / I was sneaking around hiding and watching them to see if my plan to get them to leave would work or not.
They saw some people between the fields doing normal stuff, but they possibly heard a strange non-human animal sound in the fields (which was possibly something that Rimuru / I had set up) so they assumed that it was the sounds of whatever had left those bloody bones to they decided to leave and cancel their plans for today so Rimuru’s / my plan worked.
Something was going to have to be done about that mafia group though.
The next thing that I remember is being myself again and I was with my coworkers from The BP Library, and we went to the building that Rimuru used for the alliance meetings but all the other species were gone so it was just us.
We seemed to be on a work trip, we were in the main meeting room that had pews for seating and we were sitting down talking, and I remember one of my female coworkers mentioned a fictional male celebrity and then my supervisor Ms. JM responded: “That she hated that f####r!” and then everyone started laughing loudly in shock and then things got quiet as everyone wondered if our director Mrs. EC would say something and if Ms. JM would get in trouble for cursing like that.
Mrs. EC did not say anything and Ms. JM did not get in trouble, and so everyone continued talking and Ms. JM explained why she did not like that male celebrity.
I forgot all of my dreams from last night except for part of my last dream which to my surprise seemed to be inspired by the book series Dune by Frank Herbert, and it took place during the day in the city of D; and the dreamed focused on three different things (some times at the same time) where I would be doing one thing in the dream world, while thinking/daydreaming about another thing, and sometimes seeing/hearing/experiencing things from another place.
The dream focused on me riding a bicycle during a nice day to the Dollar General near W Park, me thinking/daydreaming about fictional conversations with my dad about one of his fictional male coworkers at The BP School Board and maybe about me needing a job or about a fictional job that I had, and me seeing/hearing/experiencing situations involving members of the Imperial House Corrino from Frank Herbert’s book Dune.
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