Sand and Spice

Bene Tleilex
                   "Bene Tleilex with their Face-Dancer disguises"[28]p.8
                 "They were all products of profound prana-bindu training, (...) Scytale, a Face Dancer, had muscles and nerve linkages the others didn't                          even possess plus a special quality of sympatico, a mimic's insight with which he could put on the psyche of another as well as the                                      other's appearance."[28]p.12 so the Tleilex also have prana-bindu training.
                 "it is said that you Tleilaxu have an odd system of honour: your victims must always have a means of escape.""If they can but find it,"                                 [28]p.16
                 "We of the Tleilaxu believe that in all the universe there is only the insatiable appetite of matter, that energy is the only true solid. And                              energy learns.(...) This, we call power."  [28]p.16
                 "Because we once bred a Kwisatz Haderach of our own,"[28]p.16
                     "Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of                       the collectivity.-Tleilaxu Theorem (unproven)"[28]p.23
                     ""We are Jadacha hermaphrodites(...)either sex at will."[28]p.39

CHOAM                    

                 "acronym for Combined Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles - the universal development corporation controlled by the                                                        Emperor and Great Houses with the Guild and Bene Gesserit as silent partners."[23]p.588
                 " CHOAM was the key to wealth, each noble House dipping from the company's coffers whatever it could under the power of                                                the directorships. Those CHOAM directorships, they were the real evidence of political power in the Imperium, passing with                                              the shifts of voting strength within the Landsraad as it balanced itself against the Emperor and his supporters."[23]P.32-33
                 "By giving me Arrakis, His Majesty is forced to give us a CHOAM directorship"[23]P.57. Why is he forced to give a directorship?                                            do certain enterprises under CHOAM control automatically have directorships due to their importance / commercial impact?
                 "Few products escape the CHOAM touch,"[23]p.57
                 "consider all the Houses that depend on CHOAM profits... the enormous proportion of those profits dependent upon a single                                            product-- the spice."[23]p.58
                 "the first CHOAM audit."[23]p.110 , CHOAM, dose audits of company assets of which Spice mining is one.
                 "Guild troop-transport costs being what they are."[23]p.110 
                 "The flag is yellow . . . with a black and red circle in the center."(...) "The CHOAM Company flag."    [23]p.520                           

Emperor                      

                 The Emperor and his Sardaukar form one part of the Triad that help’s keeps stability in the universe.
                 "The Emperor and his friends now command fifty-nine point six-five per cent of the CHOAM directorship's votes"[23]p.35

House Atreides         

                    A great House that had the Fief of the Planet Caladan and had been there for 26 generations before moving to Arrakis,                                                             Mortal enemies of the Harkonnen's.  [23]p13 In 10,190 A.G the fief of Arrakis was given to House Atreides by the Emperor.                                                       The Current Duke, Duke Leto  was head of the House and was popular in the Landsraad, The major political body in                                                                 the universe.
                    "exchange Caladan for Dune  ,  and without alternative because the Emperor orders it "[23]p.27
                    "since the Emperor's command to take over the fief of Arrakis"[23]p.52
                    "your father's House isn't one of the big rich ones, lad. "[23]p.42  this is in reference to weather satellite control. Even though                                               house Atreides is a Great House there is obviously a significant difference in Great house's incomes. 
                    "The Atreides training--"We care for our own!""[23]p.301
                    "House Atreides ruled Caladan as a siridar-fief for twenty generations until pressured into the move to Arrakis"[23]p.548

                    " Paul faced Stilgar, said: "Kneel, Stilgar."
                    Stilgar dropped to his knees on the ledge.
                    "Hand me your crysknife," Paul said.
                    "Repeat after me, Stilgar," Paul said, and he called up the words of investiture as he had heard his own father use them. 
                    "I, Stilgar, take this knife from the hands of my Duke."
                    "I, Stilgar, take this knife from the hands of my Duke," accepted the milky blade from Paul.
                    "Where my Duke commands, there shall I place this blade," Paul said.
                    Stilgar repeated the words, speaking slowly and solemnly.
                    "I dedicate this blade to the cause of my Duke and the death of his enemies for as long as our blood shall flow," Paul said.
                    Stilgar repeated it after him.
                    "Kiss the blade," Paul ordered.
                    Stilgar obeyed, then, in the Fremen manner, kissed Paul's knife arm[23]p.494

                    Symbol,  Red Atreides Hawk crest."red Atreides hawk crest above the breast pocket."[23]p.15
                    Salute, "Paul touched his forehead with his rapier blade held vertical.""saw the salute and acknowledged it" [23]p.51

House Harkonnen  
                                             Mortal enemies of the Atreides. Fief, Giedi Prime.
                                        "in a Harkonnen slave pit on Giedi Prime"[23]p.49 
                                        "the Harkonnen titles came out of the CHOAM pocketbook"[23]p.81
                                        "But the poison in him, deep in his mind, is the knowledge that an Atreides had a Harkonnen banished for cowardice after,                                                    the Battle of Corrin."[23]P.81, this is a core reason the Harkonnen's hate the Atreides. 
                                        "- in a pleasure house for Harkonnen troops. "[23]p.50, Halleck's sister died as a Harkonnen Sex slave.
                                        "We know the Harkonnen policy with planetary populations  ,  spend as little as possible to maintain them."[23]p.60
                                        Harkonnen Methods
                                        "Put into that cairn more'n a month ago, by the look, and left there to await our coming." [23]p.93 the Harkonnen's placed a                                                   man in a "modern cairn"  that had been mortared up. The operator then waited with the hunter seeker and console till the                                                       Atreides arrived.

                                        Harkonnen's – Arrakis
                                        "The Harkonnen's certainly used plenty of shields here (...) They had repair depots in every garrison village, and their                                                               accounts show a heavy expenditure for shield replacements and parts." [23]p.108

                                         Harkonnen Customs
                                         "the black glove and the long knife in his right hand, the white glove and the short knife in his left hand."White for poison,                                                    black for purity," (...) "A curious custom, isn't it"[23]p.380

Houses Minor            
                                              There are many minor houses, the vast majority supporting a Great House in some function.
                                         "Nor the Houses Minor who controlled the interior trade of Arrakis (...) and were Harkonnen creatures almost to a                                                                   man." [23]p.96

Humanity      
                                       "And it must be done in an act of love because all the Empire avowed strong taboos against artificial ways."[28]p.27

Ixian's
                          "best Ixian space heaters"[28]p.40
                                              "Our price to the Guild for my signature on the Tupile Treaty,(...) is the submission of the Ixian Confederacy to our tax. The                                               Confederacy cannot trade without Guild transport. "[28]p.53
                        

                                        Publications
                                        Dune Messiah       

Mentat's                  
                                   Human Computers.
                                        "the First Law of Mentat... 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of                                                             the process, must join it and flow with it.'"[23]p.45
                                        "But I thought Mentat training had to start during infancy and the subject couldn't be told because it might inhibit the early                                                 .  .. "[23]p.62
                                        " the potential Mentat must learn what's being done. It may no longer be done to him. The Mentat has to share in the choice                                                 of whether to continue or abandon the training. Some can continue; some are incapable of it. Only the potential Mentat can                                                 tell this for sure about himself."[23]p62
                                        "The finest Mentat's have a healthy respect for the error factor in their computations,"[23]p182
                                        "That's the curse of being a Mentat. You can't stop analysing your data."[23]p242

Politics                    
                                    "We've a three-point civilization: the Imperial Household balanced against the Federated Great Houses of the Landsraad,                                                      and between them, the Guild with its damnable monopoly on interstellar transport. In politics, the tripod is the most                                                              unstable of all structures. It'd be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on                                                          most science."[23]p.36
                                        "the balance of our civilization remains the same: the military forces of the Landsraad Great Houses on one side, the                                                               Sardaukar and their supporting levies on the other."[23]p.59
                                         
Sardaukar                  
                                         The Sardaukar, the military might of the Emperor. Trained on Salusa Secundus, the Emperors Prison Planet, Speculation                                                      surrounds were these men come from, there are imperial levies but few question exactly who makes up the ranks of the                                                          Sardaukar. They are fanatics and some of the toughest military might you could ever face.

                                        "The Emperor,","That means the Sardaukar.","the soldier fanatics nonetheless."[23]p.59
                                        "What if it were more than a prison planet,.. There's a question you never hear asked about the Imperial Corps of                                                                       Sardaukar: Where do they come from?"[23]p.59
                                        "But the supporting levies the Emperor demands from (...) That's what we're led to believe: they're just the Emperor's levies                                                   trained young and superbly."[23]p.59
                                        "could earn: rich living, beautiful women, fine mansions . . . whatever they desired.(...) The way the Sardaukar live at                                                               home.""The recruits come to believe in time that such a place as Salusa Secundus is justified because it produced them, the                                                   elite. The commonest Sardaukar trooper lives a life, in many respects, as exalted as that of any member of a Great House."                                                      [23]p.434
                                        "but the smugglers were crouched in trios, backed into triangles where pressed. That habit of close fighting was a trademark                                               of the Imperial Sardaukar.(...)  pointed to the hairline yellow coil of Imperial colour, the golden lion crest, multifaceted eyes at                                             the pommel. Sardaukar for certain." [23]p.483
                                        "that each has a false toenail or two that can be combined with other items secreted about their bodies to make an effective                                                   transmitter. They'll have more than one false tooth. They carry coils of shigawire in their hair, so fine you can barely detect                                                     it, yet strong enough to garrotte a man and cut off his head in the process. With Sardaukar, you must scan them, scope them,                                             both reflex and hard ray, cut off every scrap of body hair. And when you're through, be certain you haven't discovered                                                               everything." [23]p.485
                                        "My Sardaukar used the attitudinal jets on their carrier as flame-throwers,(...) A move of desperation and the only thing that                                               got them away with their three prisoners. Mark that, my dear Baron: Sardaukar forced to retreat in confusion from women                                                 and children and old men!"[23]p.530
                                        "He was of the blond, chisel-featured caste, the look that seemed synonymous with rank among the Sardaukar,"[23]p.538
                                        "his Sardaukar humming one of their marching tunes to keep up their spirits. "[23]p.542
                                           
Smugglers                  
                                         The Smugglers play an important roll in the workings of Arrakis , and even further afield in the imperium .
                                         "A smuggler caravan left this sietch while Idaho was there, carrying a heavy load of spice. They used pack beasts and                                                                  indicated they faced an eighteen-day journey."[23]p.105 
                                         "They spoke of "the touch of the spice-brush" to mean a man had gone too native. And there was always a hint of distrust in                                                    the idea." [23]p.478

Spacing Guild       
                                   "that abominable Spacing Guild and its secretive ways."[23]p.15
                                        "the Guild remains effectively outside Imperial control,.. How else could spies and assassins move about?"[23]p.30
                                        "Not even their agents ever see a Guildsman. The Guild's as jealous of its privacy as it is of its monopoly."[23]p.61
                                        "Do you think they hide because they've mutated and don't look . . . human any more?","It's a mystery we're not likely to                                                           solve"[23]p.61

                                        "of those ancient schools ""the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics."[23]p.23
                                        "The finest Guild navigators, men who can quest ahead through time to find the safest course for the fastest Heighliners, all                                                 of them seeking me . . .and unable to find me. How they tremble! They know I have their secret here!(...)Without the spice                                                     they're blind!"[23]p.514

                                        "the Guild agents, one tall and fat, one short and fat, both with bland gray eyes."[23]p.526
                                        "and the eye was revealed. The man had lost one of his masking contact lenses, and the eye stared out a total blue so dark as                                                 to be almost black."[23]p.535
                                        "The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience"[23]p.543
                                        "Guild navigators, both of you, eh?" [23]p.547
                                        "When the Arrakis Affair boiled up, the Spacing Guild made overtures to the Bene Gesserit. The Guild hinted that its                                                                 navigators, who use the spice drug of Arrakis to produce the limited prescience necessary for guiding spaceships through                                                     the void, were "bothered about the future" or saw "problems on the horizon."[23]p.583
                                        "his voice rolled from the glittering speaker globe which orbited a corner of his tank"[28]p.12
                                        "melange pill into his mouth. He ate the spice and breathed it and, no doubt, drank it, Scytale noted. Understandable,                                                             because the spice heightened a Steersman's prescience, gave him the power to guide a Guild heighliner across space at                                                           trans-light speeds. With spice awareness he found that line of the ship's future which avoided peril. "[28]p.13

                                        Ranks

                                        Guildsman[23]p.61
                                        Guild navigators[23]p.514
                                        Steersman [28]p.13

Suk School     
                                    "a Suk School graduate with Imperial Conditioning  ,  supposedly safe enough to minister even to the Emperor. Great store                                                 is set on Imperial Conditioning. It's assumed that ultimate conditioning cannot be removed without killing the                                                                         subject." [23]p.30
                                        Yueh, Wellington,  medical doctor of the Suk School, graduated 10,112.A.D,  [23]p.52