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| | Dune (series of novels) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | For those who never read the book, it's a space opera where a feudal "house", the House of Atreides, is exiled to a dry, sandy planet called "Arrakis", or "Dune", formerly a (very profitable due to a certain "spice") fief of a rival "house", the House of Harkonnen. |
 | | In a way it says the opposite: Paul envisions armies with the Atreides banner, where those who served house Atreides on Caladan are recognisable by the red hawk on their uniform. |
 | | A second Atreides symbol is also mentioned, apparently unrelated to the flag: the «Hawk crest of the House Atraides», used extensively as an ornamental identification in building, vehicle and space ship liveries. |
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