Hestia



Hestia is a planet given to Siridar Count Peleus Atreides in 2201 AG by Emperor Shahrukh Kenric I.

During the First Republic it was the House Atreides home, from which they were withdrawn to Gallatin.

In 9355 AG, with the assumption of the brief Dukedom of Philippos XIV Atreides, the Siridar-Duke's brother, Count Garrick Atreides and all his family were taken hostage when a rebel force attacked the planet.

The invaders wished to bargain with the lives of the Atreides — known loyalists to the Crown — in order to obtain passage to Tupile from emperor Ezhar XI. The emperor replied with his usual firmness: after sending a rather cryptic message of apology to the captives, he ordered his troops to raze Hestia completely.

Nothing on the entire planet was left alive.