Hey Gary
The "muh Boomers thing? Been tellin it since the 80s
do you hear now?
Frank Herbert laid it out for ALL to see. Read it twice, it's there.
Balance of Power
Each House usually maintained a base of operations on a specific planet - typically their ancestral homeworld. Banished Houses were exiled to the set of planets collectively known as Tupile. Banishment was usually decreed by the Emperor, or by a ruling of the Landsraad. This would usually occur because the House in violated the Great Convention by employing atomics against human beings or because the offending House committed a terrible crime, such as high treason.
Not surprisingly, some Houses possessed more power and influence than others. Some even possessed enough power to rule entire planetary systems. These were known as Great Houses, Major Houses, or Great Families. It was from one of these Houses that control of the Imperium, the official realm of the Known Universe, was maintained. For more than 10,000 standard years, the Imperium was ruled by imperial House Corrino.
As a consequence of this governmental structure, there was a near-constant state of plotting conducted between the various noble Houses, though on occasion two or more Houses would form an alliance with one another to thwart or destroy a rival House.
This House system represented the nobility of the Imperium, and formed part of the Faufreluches class system: "A place for every man, and every man has a place."
Houses Major
Typically, a Major House was a familial dynasty that ruled a planet or a planetary system. During the time of the Padishah Emperors, this usually took the form of a fiefdom handed down by the Emperor himself.
A Major (or Great) House that ruled a planet was ruler of that world, and charged by the Emperor to uphold the laws of the Imperium, and the galactic order of the Faufreluches. A Great House would usually have its own standing army, flag, symbol, coat-of-arms, and representative colors. It was said that only the combined military power of all the Great Houses in the Imperium would have been enough to defeat the Sardaukar armies of the Corrino Emperors. Thus, a delicate balance was struck between the Great Houses and the Imperial House, since all the Great Houses were never expected to ally themselves together against the Emperor, or anyone else. Indeed, during the time of the Corrinos, the majority of Great Houses seemed to be preoccupied with petty squabbles.
Each Great House maintained trade and business interests, and some Minor Houses could, over time, be granted Great House status through amassed wealth from enterpreneurial endeavors.
https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/House
>>15688159 (me)
Since the fall of the Roman Empire, when minor governors took power by the Legions that remained faithful because they knew nothing else
The "Nobles" that arose later to claim Territory by "Might Makes Right" and even more Lands from the Crusades. The "Houses" began. Look at the Coats of Arms, it's there
Anons know them, and that they fear. Anons will expose them. No way to Rule if NONE will obey
>>15688223 (me again)
Hadrian's Wall
The great Roman Empire and her Legions ran into the Celts. Shoes, swordbelt, helmet. Rest naked, painted blue, and all about kicking ass. "That's it, Empire stops there, build a strong wall, garrison mightily, just keep those fuckers out"