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The Technocrat Council was the de facto ruling organisation on Ix between 10188 AG and the 10220s AG.
History[]
After House Vernius retook Ix from the Bene Tleilax's Project Amal occupation in 10175 AG, the Ixian industries began burgeoning and their exports tripling annually. However, Earl Rhombur Vernius was forced to appoint more and more lieutenants. Business subsidiaries ran the manufacturing centers, and the Technocrat Council began swiftly and silently stealing power from the ruling Vernius family. After the death of the Earl on Balut in 10188 AG, this culminated with the Council essentially taking over Ix. While Bronso Vernius held the title of Earl and was the titular ruler of the planet and it's Landsraad representitive, this was a meaningless technicality and the Council stripped him of any real power, seeing no need for a royal family on Ix. Bronso's execution in 10207 AG would later mark the end of House Vernius.
Once they were in complete control of Ix, the Technocrat Council proposed an independent confederacy. The planet formed the Ixian Confederacy shortly after Paul Atreides took the Golden Lion Throne and became Emperor of the Known Universe in 10193 AG. Ix offered submission to House Atreides in 10205 AG in exchange for a legal limit to Paul's Imperial tax, claiming that they wanted a constitution, with the Landsraad or CHOAM governing Paul. Paul forbade a constitution, claiming it would be detrimental to his people. This became an Order in Council and Paul decreed that the Spacing Guild, if they wanted his signature for the Tupile Treaty, was to stop all trade from Ix until the Confederacy agreed to the tax. Without the Guild's transport, the Ixians eventually submitted.
Early on in the reign of the God Emperor Leto Atreides II which began in 10217 AG, the Ixians developed an economic technological federation with the central authority of the Ixian Core supplanting the Technocrat Council in the spread of Ix's technological culture and its engagement with the Tleilaxu and the Bene Gesserit.