Great article! I have wondered where he found the human inspiration for the Harkonnens. When it comes to that kind of cruelty, it appears that so-called democratic societies foster a complete breakdown of reason, creating people in power who kill anyone at will without any justice or reason other than a feeling the leader may have. Nero with The Way, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and probably many more. I am sure there have been many so-called Royal leaders who killed people who worked for a king or queen at court, like those from incest-infested nations like the Prussians. In any situation I mentioned, despite their being ethnic cleansing, which is horrifying alone, what in Frank's travels spoke to him of the planet Guidi Prime and the Harkonnens? They wasted a million lives without a thought except for their greed.

The one planet in the solar system I wish Princess Lei was from.