Kaitain

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The planet Kaitain was the second capital of the Corrino Empire.^[1] The seat of the empire was moved from the original House Corrino seat, Salusa Secundus, which became the prison and training ground for the imperial Sardaukar.

Above Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV's door on Kaitain were the words 'Law is the ultimate science'.^[2] The Hall of Portraits was a location, presumably on Kaitain, containing the Ego-likeness of prominent figures. Shaddam brought his eldest daughter Irulan into the hall in 10190 AG and showed her the portrait of Leto Atreides I, lamenting that Irulan had not been of age when Leto was looking for a partner.^[3]

After the fall of Corrino Empire in the Desert War, House Corrino left Kaitain and moved back to Salusa Secundus.

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Dune - Terminology of the Imperium: SALUSA SECUNDUS: third planet of Gamma Waiping; designated Imperial Prison Planet after removal of the Royal Court to Kaitain.
↑ Dune - Chapter 25: "'Law is the ultimate science,' " Paul quoted. "Thus it reads above the Emperor's door. I propose to show him law."
↑ Dune - Chapter 15: My father, the Padishah Emperor, took me by the hand one day and I sensed in the ways my mother had taught me that he was disturbed. He led me down the Hall of Portraits to the ego-likeness of the Duke Leto Atreides. I marked the strong resemblance between them--my father and this man in the portrait--both with thin, elegant faces and sharp features dominated by cold eyes. "Princess-daughter," my father said, "I would that you'd been older when it came time for this man to choose a woman." My father was 71 at the time and looking no older than the man in the portrait, and I was but 14, yet I remember deducing in that instant that my father secretly wished the Duke had been his son, and disliked the political necessities that made them enemies.

[Terminology-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Dune - Terminology of the Imperium: SALUSA SECUNDUS: third planet of Gamma Waiping; designated Imperial Prison Planet after removal of the Royal Court to Kaitain.

[2] Dune - Chapter 25: "'Law is the ultimate science,' " Paul quoted. "Thus it reads above the Emperor's door. I propose to show him law."

[3] Dune - Chapter 15: My father, the Padishah Emperor, took me by the hand one day and I sensed in the ways my mother had taught me that he was disturbed. He led me down the Hall of Portraits to the ego-likeness of the Duke Leto Atreides. I marked the strong resemblance between them--my father and this man in the portrait--both with thin, elegant faces and sharp features dominated by cold eyes. "Princess-daughter," my father said, "I would that you'd been older when it came time for this man to choose a woman." My father was 71 at the time and looking no older than the man in the portrait, and I was but 14, yet I remember deducing in that instant that my father secretly wished the Duke had been his son, and disliked the political necessities that made them enemies.

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