-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (01-22-02) | Dune III House Harkonnen Handbook | Dune III 2.0 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. History 1.1 Summary 1.2 Timeline 1.3 Recent History 2. House Character 2.1 Summary 2.2 View on Religion 2.3 View on Non-Landsraad Factions 2.3.1 Bene Gesserit 2.3.2 Bene Tleilaxu 2.3.3 Guild 2.3.4 Ix 2.3.5 Smugglers 2.4 View on Harkonnen Citizenry 2.5 House Heraldry 2.6 Subject Houses 3. Discussion of Home World 3.1 Summary 3.2 Planetary Map 3.3 Economy 3.4 Ecology 4. Faction Protocols 4.1 Internal Protocols 4.2 Official Code of Conduct 4.3 Interacting with Specific Houses Major 5. Joining the House 5.1 Available Positions 5.2 Web Site 5.3 Contact Info -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 1 House History 1.1 House Origins House Harkonnen claims ancestry through Harkonnen Obeshev, the first Harkonnen listed in historical records. Harkonnen historians claim Obeshev was an adventurer and heroic mercenary, descended from Byzantine rulers on ancient Terra, who distinguished himself in the service of the Landsraad. Harkonnen detractors claim he was the son of a trashman who seduced court ladies to advance his own fortunes. In either event, the result was the same. The Harkonnen family developed a close relationship with Sheuset, Burseg of Salusa Secundus and later the founder of the Imperium. Obeshev's son Abulurd, a Colonel-Bashar in the Sardaukar, was given command over one of the five fleets supporting Sheuset at the Battle of Corrin. When a solar flare disrupted communications between the fleets, Abulurd withdrew his own fleet around the limb of the star to regroup. The fleet under Dmitrios Atreides was better situated to intervene against the Landsraad attack; and when it came, Abulurd's own fleet was in a deep rearguard orbit behind the star. To hear the Atreides tell it, Atreides intervention won the Battle of Corrino for Sheuset's forces, and Harkonnen cowardice almost lost the day. Because of the closeness of the Harkonnens to Sheuset, they were not executed for cowardice; they were, however, banished from the Imperium indefinitely. Abulurd blamed Demetrios Atreides for their disgrace and vowed revenge for himself and his house. 1.2 Historical Timeline The history of House Harkonnen stretches back over 10 millennia to the very beginnings of the Imperium. Since their ancestors fought in the Battle of Corrin that created the Imperium, the Harkonnens are proud of their ancient heritage. Guild Year ca. 100 BG Harkonnen Obeshev befriends Sheuset Ecevit, later Sheuset I, founder of the Imperium, on Salusa Secundus. 88 BG The Battle of Corrin. Abulurd I Harkonnen disgraced by Demetrios Atreides. His branch of the family is exiled, but his brother Ivan's branch is permitted to stay. 1 Lion Throne, Spacing Guild and CHOAM combine to establish the form of human society for the next ten millenia. 388 Ivan's descendant, Saudir Harkonnen usurps the Lion Throne and becomes Emperor Saudir III. He returns the Abulurd branch of the family to the Imperium. After one year, the Sardaukar revolt and return the Corrinos to power. 445 Saudir's son leads the provincial Sardaukar in another revolt, retaking the Lion Throne and becoming Saudir IV. He rules for six years and dies without issue. 601 The Harkonnens anger Regent Harmon II and are stripped of major titles. 1100 A motion to grant the Harkonnens Great House status is defeated by the Atreides. 1345 Harkonnens settle the planet Giedi Prime. 1604 Emperor Henoor II dies without heirs and Duke Abulurd IV Harkonnen attempts to seize power. Count Philippos Atreides challenges him to kanly. Abulurd is killed and civil war is averted. The Harkonnens are once again exiled. 1680 Abulurd's son, Iraklii, now in disguise as a weapons merchant on the frontier, uses his wealth to engineer the resignation of the Regent and restore a distant Corrino cousin to the throne as Corrin IV. 1702 Corrin IV declares House Harkonnen a Great House, with Giedi Prime an Imperial fief. 1988 Baron Vasilii IV Harkonnen founds the New Islambahai Church. 2027-2099 Era of Harkonnen Corrino: Baron Feyd Harkonnen schemes his way into becoming Emperor Feyd I, succeeded by his son Estil I and his grandson Feyd II. The Harkonnens remember this time in Imperial history as a sort of Golden Age. 2444 Siridar-Count Konstantin II Harkonnen becomes a hermit on Arrakis. A year later he returns and demands his titles back, but is forced to share them with his son Pavel VII. 2829 Siridar-Count Aleksei Harkonnen falls in love with one of his male slaves and is murdered by his wife. 3598 Baron Pimen Harkonnen-Rabban, after wasting his vast fortune on gladiatorial contests, is thrown into the ring by his wife and son, and cut down by a gladiator before his guards can intervene. 5321 Lord Andrei Harkonnen, cheops master, artist, writer of sonnets, is a beloved figure. Andrei's popularity inspires such jealousy in Emperor Destrym that Imperial assassins foully murder Andrei. There is such a public outcry over his murder that Emperor Destrym is deposed and executed by the Landsraad, and the Third Protectorate is set up to keep the royal claimants off the throne. 9434 House Harkonnen forms an alliance with House Moritani in a kanly against House Ophelion. The alliance persists even after the Harkonnens best the Ophelions. 9937 Baron Ivan XII Harkonnen born. 10,014 Petr VII Harkonnen born, oldest of Ivan XII's children. Petr was quite unlike his father, a quietly scheming man who cultivated close relations with the Bene Gesserit. 10, 036 Boris XXVI Harkonnen born, the oldest of Baron Petr VII's children. 10,050 Baron Ivan is killed in accidental crash on Gamont. 10, 060 Baron Petr renounces his ways and mysteriously converts to Navachristianity. Boris, with the backing of Emperor Hajus II, rises against him. 10, 061 Boris becomes Baron Harkonnen after Petr's death. 10,065 Birth of Andrei, the Baron's first son 10,067 Birth of Mikael, the Baron's second son 10,070 Baroness Ursula sides with her brothers in a revolt against Harkonnen rule, but Boris crushes her brothers and reconciles with his wife 10,072 Birth of Ulricke, the Baron's daughter 10,075 Ursula is ‘executed ‘by Baron Boris for her repeated infidelities. 10, 082 Ulricke Harkonnen sent to Ginaz Academy of Swordsmanship. 10, 086 Minor House Lermontov rebels against House Harkonnen over mineral rights. 10, 091 Harkonnen defeats the Lermontov uprising. As a token of submission, Boris marries Tatyana Lermontov. Ulricke graduates from the Ginaz Academy. 10, 091 Boris’ long-time mentat, Yashin deVillon, is assassinated, and Boris replaces him with Alexi Nestor. 10,092 Emperor Fredhrick and his sons are killed in an ornithopter crash. In the interregnum, House Harkonnen invades the Bajazet colony of Malarca Secundus, claiming self-defense. 10, 094 Harkonnen withdraws from Malarca Secundus, unable to claim victory there. The Harkonnen Swordmaster, Sen Howyrm’n, scorches the planet upon withdrawal. 10, 095 Boris Harkonnen reveals that his wife Ursula has been alive and imprisoned by his order, for 20 years, on Giedi Prime. Alexi Nestor opens the Harkonnen School of Assassination on Kaitain. 10, 096 With Ixian aid, House Harkonnen develops a superweapon known as an accelerator rifle, and sell it to the great houses of the Landsraad. 10, 097 Birth of Vladimir, Boris’ third son, by the concubine Malia. 10, 099 Baron Boris is marooned briefly in the wilds of Giedi Prime with a Harkonnen guardsman. Nestor personally leads a rescue mission but disappears in the outback of Giedi Prime. In the Baron’s absence, na-Baron Andrei assumes many of his duties until the Baron is rescued. Malia kidnaps Vladimir Harkonnen and takes refuge in the Imperial Palace. Vladimir is recovered by Lady Ulricke, but Malia remains in hiding. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 1.3 Recent History Boris' grandfather Ivan XII fought for and won many valuable CHOAM contracts, allowing the House to prosper. Ivan married his own sister Aravin, and fathered a son, Petr VII. Ivan was a savage ruler, who spent vast sums of money on debauchery and gladiatorial games. He pursued the Arrakis contract single-mindedly, but was unable achieve his goal. Ivan XII was a Baron in the grand Harkonnen tradition, a morbidly obese man who was seen as one of the most capable leaders the House has ever spawned. He died in an accident, a frigate crash on Gamont which has always been tainted by suspicions of foul play. After rising to the Barony after his father's accidental death, Petr proved to be less capable than his father. His early reign was notable for initiating and failing at several important intrigues. He surrounded himself with Bene Gesserit advisors and Sisters served in several important positions in his House. At the age of 46, he mysteriously underwent a religious conversion to the Navachristian faith. He repented of all Harkonnen 'sins' and began a project of building Navachristian churches throughout the Harkonnen domains. His family thought him truly mad when he tried to free the vast army of slaves on Giedi Prime. This move would ruin his House economically, as well as leaving a huge hostile force on the Harkonnen homeworld. His son, Boris, petitioned the Emperor to declare Petr unfit to rule, which was reluctantly granted. After seizing command of the Harkonnen Feldwehr, Boris rose in rebellion with the professed intent of capturing his father. There followed a series of hardfought battles over the surface of Giedi Prime as Boris's forces took Petr's strongholds and burned his churches. After Boris' forces conquered Petr's cathedral-fortress, Boris' mentat Yashin deVillon slew the old man while he prayed. Boris spent the first years of his reign putting the House back on track in accordance with the traditional Harkonnen ways. He purged his court of Petr's loyalists. He married a demi-cousin, Contessa Ursula, heiress to House Minor Seybolt, and she bore him several children. However, Ursula worked behind the scenes to free Seybolt from domination by Harkonnen, repeatedly aiding her brothers in intrigues against the Barony. She also was disloyal to him with a Harkonnen nobleman. This was the last straw for Ursula. Boris publicly had her executed, but secretly he imprisoned her, entrusting the secret that she still lived only to a few confidants. He also visited her in secret from time to time. In 10,086, minor House Lermontov rose in open rebellion against House Harkonnen, in a dispute over mineral rights in the Lermontov fief of Sibirsk. The Harkonnens only crushed the rebellion after a drawn out five-year war. In 10,091 House Lermontov also pledged the hand of their heir, Tatyana, to cement relations between the two Houses, and the two were wed briefly. However, the marriage was purely political and the two lived apart. After the sudden death of Emperor Fredhrick and his heirs, Harkonnen launched an invasion of the Bajazet holding of Malarca Secundus, and were implicated in the murder of the Bajazet Siridar, Sha’ara’diin. The war on Malarca Secundus was long and ugly, and in the end the Harkonnens were unable to conquer it and were forced to withdraw. They spent much blood and treasure to little end. The political repercussions from this war are still being played out. In 10,095, Alexi Nestor opened the Harkonnen School of Assassination, a sort of rival to the famous Ginaz School of Swordsmanship. Students, taken from all the Great Houses, are trained in secret Harkonnen assassination techniques, and in return are forbidden from using their skills against the House. Also in 10,095, with the death of the last of Ursula’s brothers, Boris released Baroness Ursula from her prison and revealed to his family that she was still alive. The Baron and Baroness, still married, live in an uneasy peace, but that seems to be the way they like it. The Baron certainly seems fond of her and she of him. Shortly after her return, the Baroness had Tatyana Lermontov killed. The assassin was the Baron’s current concubine, Lady Sylvie de Biencourt, who was killed while achieving her mission. Thus the Baroness achieved two of her aims with one economical stroke and showed she had lost none of her edge. In 10,096, Emperor Erich sold the concubine of his predecessor, Lady Ceile, to the Harkonnens. They renamed her Malia and the Baron sired a son by her named Vladimir. The same year, the Warmaster Ferrel Cabal, with Ixian assistance, developed a weapon capable of penetrating Holtzmann shields, known as the accelerator rifle. Selling this superweapon to the other Great Houses recouped much of the monetary losses incurred by the Malarcan invasion. In the end, though, House Corrino thought it was a threat to their hegemony, and signed an exclusive deal with the Harkonnens to supply the weapon only to the Sardaukar. This arrangement has enriched the Harkonnen coffers considerably, even if Warmaster Cabal fell from the Baron’s favor and was sentenced to the mines. Most recently, the Baron was recently stranded in the outback of Giedi Prime, along with Fahahd Alaurens, a guard officer. The two stayed alive in arctic wilderness long enough to be rescued by the troops of na-Baron Andrei. During the Baron’s absence, Nestor led a rescue mission into the outback, but disappeared in a storm. On Kaitain, Malia fled with Vladimir to the confines of the Emperor’s palace. Although Vladimir has been returned to his father, Malia is still at large. 2 HOUSE CHARACTER 2.1 Summary House Harkonnen has been described as venal, decadent, cruel, repressive, vicious, perverse, fearsome, bloodthirsty, ruthless, bloated, and even evil. All of these have been true of the House in its lengthy history. But what House can claim complete freedom from the taint of these negative words? Whose hands are free of blood? We, the descendants of rulers, warriors, soldiers and doers, prefer to view House Harkonnen with the long view in mind. We aspire to rule efficiently and well, to advance our own interests and those of our allies, to promote our family name, to create an environment where loyal, hardworking pyons may thrive. We do this within a social order that has existed for ten millennia, the most stable government in history. That social order defines our rights and those of all others. Words like “evil” and “monstrous” are the words of semuta-smoke philosophers and have no place in the hard cold universe of real politics. If we tend toward excess, that is our right. If we tend toward cruelty, that too is our right. Our rights are our absolute justification. We are what we are, our own morality, and if others are too weak, too foolish to embrace such mores, then history will treat them as it has all weaklings and fools. 2.2 Views on Religion Our views on religion are those we would hold for any other useful tool of rulership. We answer to no higher power than ourselves. Where religion can be applied as to keep a subject populace under control, we will apply it. Where it becomes a fire to kindle oppressed masses to action in the name of a higher power, there we must stamp it out as ruthlessly as is required. 2.3 Views on Non-Landsraad Factions Our views on non-Landsraad factions depend on how they advance our interests. 2.3.1 The Bene Tleilax We approve of the Tleilaxu and maintain a mutually profitable relationship with them. We make full use of their tailored biological artifacts. We’re one of their best customers. We purchase custom Mentats, pleasure toys, and engineered animals for use in the gladiatorial games. However, there is much in the Tleilax we must still explore. 2.3.2 The Ixians The Ixians remain mysterious. Thanks to former Warmaster Ferrel Cabal,the Ixians have developed a weapon for House Harkonnen known as the accelerator rifle, which Harkonnen has marketed to the Imperial Sardaukar and regained some Imperial favor. 2.3.3 The Bene Gesserit The Bene Gesserit remain a source of concern for us. They seem inordinately interested in the Baronial family...why, they have not explained. Their skills and talents might make them useful allies, but they seem too committed to their own agenda. Leave it for the Emperor to fall under their sway. We shall not. 2.3.4 The Spacing Guild We get along with the Guild as well as one must, like we must with any force of nature, like a hurricane. We show the proper amount of prudent respect, and caution, and strive to be properly humbled by their awesome power. Still, a house's reach must exceed its grasp. 2.3.5 The Smugglers The Smugglers we view as a legitimate source of business and we patronize them covertly as much as we dare. They may be a useful ally to help subvert the Guild as well as turn a profit. We must nurture this resource jealously. 2.4 Views on Harkonnen Citizenry Harkonnen society is rigidly stratified, forming a steep pyramid with the nobles at the top and the vast mass of pyons and slaves below. It’s extremely difficult for commoners to rise in the pyramid. House Harkonnen can be viewed as a vast nest of competing power bases. Nobles and leaders cultivate the personal loyalty of those under them, and seek advantage of their possible rivals. The army intrigues for power over the civilian agencies. The civilian ministries seeks power over one another. The whole system is ruthlessly Darwinian, with the most competitive and ruthless rising to the top. 2.5 House Heraldry House Harkonnen’s colors are midnight blue and silver. Harkonnen uniforms and markings almost always follow these colors with slight variations. The house heraldic insignia is the ram’s head, usually depicted in blue and silver. The Harkonnen armed forces, known as the Feldwehr, also use a griffin as their own insignia. 2.6 Subject Houses Vassals of House Harkonnen include Houses Minor spread over several worlds. These include: House de Biencourt: holding the planet of Soudain in demi-fief from the Harkonnens, they are famed for their horse-breeding. House Karposzev: staunch defenders of House Harkonnen, they supply soldiers for an elite Feldwehr infantry unit known as Karposzines. House Lankiveil: one of the most powerful Houses Minor in the central Imperium, they maintain close blood ties with the Baronial family. House Lermontov: this House was crushed in 10,091 after a long and grueling rebellion. They have recently been brought back into the fold of loyal houses after punitive tributes. The Baron Boris was briefly married to the heiress of House Lermontov, Tatyana. House Seybolt: a powerful family of landholders on Giedi Prime. The Baroness Ursula is leader of this House Minor. 3 The Harkonnen Homeworld 3.1 Summary Giedi Prime, planet of Ophiuchi B (36), is a large arctic-type world located near the major trade routes of the central Imperium. Giedi Prime is classified as median-viable, with a low active photosynthesis range due to the cool climate. Ophiuchi B is a bright K-class star, and shines on Giedi with a bright blue glow. The world is girded by a belt of cities and smoky industrial zones, closely packed into the temperate areas at the planet's equator. The rest of the planet is divided into the estates of the noble familes and heavily forested, largely wild outback. The cities of Giedi Prime are densely populated, with over two billion people. Over twenty percent of the population are 'conscript laborers', i.e., slaves. The native language on Giedi Prime is Suryzo. Harko, the capital, is a large, close-packed city in the western hemisphere. Harko is a tidy place of high-walled keeps, built of the local blue stone. The planet's outback is only sparsely settled, an arctic wilderness of glaciers, forests and snowy wastes, prowled by large and hungry carnivores, such as the kuven and the fearsome skalat. Giedi Prime has one airless satellite, called Zuvin, held as a military reservation and prison camp. 3.2 Planetary Map (Omitted in text file. See the PDF version of this document for a map.) 3.3 Economy Giedi Prime is a treasure house of heavy metals, fossil fuels, and fissionables. The deep mines of Giedi Prime still hold large reserves of platinum, titanium, aluminum, and jasmium, which fuel Harkonnen heavy industries and military production. Slaves form a mainstay of the planet's economy, as well as forming a sizeable workforce to dig in the mines. Slaves work in heavy industry, as well as household servants and entertainment for the upper classes. 3.4 Ecology Giedi Prime is a mostly frozen wilderness, with an average planetary temperature around -10 degrees centigrade. Some of the city and industrial zones maintain local weather control, but much of its surface is snowy outback. For an arctic world, the ecology of Giedi Prime is robust. Some of its more famous lifeforms include the following: • The klevek is a reptilian carnivore about the size of a large dog and with a similar temperment. They are kept as pets and working animals. • The skalat is a hunter of the remote outbacks, but is often hunted itself for sport. Skalat fur is highly prized. • The razorwing is raptorial bird often domesticated and trained for hunting • The infamous inkvine plant, processed and used to construct slave lashes, leaves highly visible markings on its victims. 4 FACTION PROTOCOLS 4.1 Internal Protocols Harkonnen society is rigid and stratified. The Harkonnens are strict believers in the faufreluches. Lower classes are expected to show absolute obedience to the noble classes, and particularly towards the House leadership. Hundreds of generations of Harkonnen rule have conditioned lower classes towards this arrangement. House leadership includes members of the Baronial Family, minor house nobility, the House Mentat, and staff leaders like the House Warmaster and his underlings. It's assumed that one not of noble birth will never address the Baron or the house leaders without being addressed first. Inferiors should never speak of a House noble in the second person; i.e. never say 'you' when addressing a leader. The proper manner for addressing the Baron or the House leadership, for one not of noble birth, would always include the accepted title in the address. (‘I was wondering if My Lord Baron remembered me...I was the palace gardener.') The Baron should be addressed as "My Lord" or "My Lord Baron". When the Baron or anyone else in the House leadership speaks, pyons and slaves are expected to answer quickly, speak clearly, and not to make eye contact. Slaves are treated as property, no better than furniture. However, excessive cruelty is viewed as unnecessary, since they are valuable property. 4.2 Official Code of Conduct Our political expedience knows no bounds, save those that are defined by the House leaders. Our enemies would stop at nothing less than our complete destruction of our way of life. As all Houses must, House Harkonnen employs traditional masters in the ancient arts of assassination and chaumurky. We are officially pro-Imperium and support any houses who feel the same way. We feel strongly about keeping the Emperor powerful and will act jealously to guard what we feel are his interests. As a player on the MUSH, you should feel free to add a certain amount of swagger to your character’s demeanor. We have a reputation to uphold as the bad guys: the arrogant ones who have all the fun. 4.2.1 THE HARKONNEN CREEDS  Might makes right....as long as it's Harkonnen might.  Five billion years of evolution proves the duty of the strong is to rule over the weak.  There is no better motivator than the inkvine whip.  Make sure the tribute is paid on time.  There is no sense crying over spilled blood.  Carpe diem! Because you may be dead tomorrow. 4.3 Interacting with Other Houses Major House Atreides We are not currently in blood feud with House Atreides. The former Duke Praxton and the Baron Boris maintained a close friendship since their time in the Ginaz Academy. In the past relations have never been strong, but in the last few centuries there has been somewhat of an easing in the traditional tensions between the two houses. This tension has increased somewhat under their current leader, Duchess Margot. One never knows when this could change. House Moritani We try to maintain our traditionally strong relations with House Moritani, as we have been allied with them for a few centuries. Baron Boris was a longtime friend of the late Count Galeazzo, and was godfather to his son, the former Count Cesare. Lately the Contessa Ophelia has been testing the limits of the Harkonnen-Moritani relationship. House Rastanyev Bloody turnip farmers! They’re hardly a House Major at all, having only been in the Landsraad since the late 6000’s. Upstarts and pretenders to real nobility, all of them! We will get along with them if we have to, but we don’t have to invite them to tea. And since one of them married the Emperor Erich, they’ve been more insufferable than ever. House Bajazet Culturally, House Bajazet and House Harkonnen are not unlike one another. Each has a rather oppressive, martial culture that holds slaves, and both are strict defenders of the faufreluches. Perhaps this is why we don’t get along with them. They haven’t forgiven us for invading Malarca Secundus during the interregnum, and we haven’t forgiven them for stopping us. We’ll get even with them some day for it, too! House Corrino We’d get along with them a lot better if they’d listen to us more. But we’re official pro-Imperium, and House Corrino’s long reliance on the use of force to solve problems is an inspiration to us. House Alvstad In recent times, House Alvstad has become one of Harkonnen’s closest allies. We like Alvstad—they’re the kind of House we can do business with, and their cold financial calculus doesn’t make them squeamish about absurd questions of scruple and morals. House Ginaz Relations with this House have often been tense, because of their lengthy kanly with our allies the Moritani. However, many Harkonnens, including the Baron and the Lady Ulricke, have attended their Sword Academy and remember their school years fondly. 5 Joining the House 5.1 Available Positions House Harkonnen always has room for skilled RPers and interesting characters. Some suggestions for characters include:  Civilian Officials: the wheels of government must grind. There is always room for talented house ministers or other civilian officials who seek to build their own powerbase.  Diplomats: diplomats meet and confer with members of other houses, attempting to accomplish through smooth words and charm what we can’t accomplish through brute force and intrigue. And of course, no one would ever suspect a diplomat of spying…  Guards: guards look after the safety of the House, in particular the Baronial family, as as such are involved in many high-profile activities on the capital world.  Household Staff: the Embassy on Kaitain, home to the Baronial family and other house leaders, always need household staff--servants, slaves and slavemasters.  Security and Intelligence Staff: Harkonnen has a huge security organization known as the Sekuria, which reports to the Master of Assassins. The Sekuria is virtually an army of its own, with spies, security staff, and various intriguers.  Soldiers: House Harkonnen has a vast and powerful army called the Feldwehr, detailed on our web site. Join the Feldwehr! They are always looking for recruits and officers. 5.2 Harkonnen Web Site The faction maintains a web site at www.househarkonnen.com. You can find more information about the faction, including dossiers on faction members, details on Harkonnen armed forces, and RP logs. 5.3 Contact Information Send mail to boris@househarkonnen.com with questions or comments. You can also apply to the faction directly from the web site.