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三大家族：

伊克斯家族，Ix

These fascist arms dealers have access to terrifying technologies -- and they're happy to pass them along if the price is right. And with Arrakis at the center of an intergalactic struggle, the ambitious Ix only stand to profit. But the wealth isn't exactly shared among the people: a virtual slave culture, the Ix are ruled by an echelon of scientists and technocrats, while the masses toil in the factories and labs and that are the lifeblood of House Ix. Never wishing to soil themselves with actual battle, the Ix feel they are well above the clash over Dune -- but not above profiting from it.

Loathed by many houses such as the Fremen and the Sardaukar for seeming effeminate and overly delicate, the Ix look down on most of their clients as little more than brutes and primitives.

这些法西斯军火商有机会得到可怕的科技——如果价格合适他们很乐意把这些科技传递出去。虽然厄拉科基处于星系间斗争的中心，但野心勃勃的伊克斯家族只会从中谋取利益。但这些财富并没有在民众中完全共享：在一种实质性的奴隶文化中，伊克斯家族被一群科学家与技术官僚所统治，而普罗大众则在工厂与实验室中辛苦劳作，这就是伊克斯家族的命脉。伊克斯家族从不希望自己被真正的战斗所玷污，他们觉得自己凌驾于沙丘的战争之上，但并不凌驾于从中获利之上。

如弗里曼人和萨杜卡等许多家族都厌恶伊克斯家族的“娘炮”和过于软弱的表现，而伊克斯家族认为他们的大多数客户都是野蛮的原始人。

伊克斯家族原著背景科普：

弗里曼人，Fremen

The natives of Dune are a tightly knit tribe of skilled warriors whose years of enduring life on the desert planet have made them tough, resourceful and highly adaptable. They worship -- and fear -- the giant sandworms that tunnel beneath the planet's surface. And like the sandworms, the Fremen prefer to stay underground, living in secret oases until their dream of turning Dune into an oasis can be realized.

Once allied with Atreides, the Fremen have since withdrawn after years of raging war. Respected and loathed by their rivals who covet the planet, the Fremen are the wild card in this drawn-out game of planetary conquest.

沙丘的原住民是一个紧密团结的部落，他们拥有高超技巧的战士，在这颗沙漠行星上多年的持久生活让他们变得坚韧、机制和适应性强。他们崇拜且畏惧在行星地表下挖洞的巨大沙虫。和沙虫一样，弗里曼人喜欢待在地下，居住在秘密绿洲里直到他们实现把沙丘行星变成绿洲的梦想。

自从与亚崔迪家族结盟后，弗里曼人便从多年的激战中撤出。在这场旷日持久的星球征服游戏中，弗里曼人既被觊觎这颗星球的对手所尊敬，也被他们所憎恶着。

弗里曼人原著背景科普：

萨杜卡，Sardaukar

Hardened by relentless training on their desolate planet, The Sardaukar are warriors to the core: bravery and martial skill are the sole measure of a person's worth. Formerly the Emperor's Shocktroops, the Sardaukar now fight for an empty imperial ideal, but no less fiercely -- the nearly religious zeal of the troops makes them a terror on the battlefield.

Thus, with their military values, they respect their foes such as the Fremen, and loathe the Ix, whom they see as effete. But foes are foes, and there's little chance that the Sardaukar will ever see beyond their bellicose world-view to forge any truces with fellow warriors like The Fremen. Or can they

萨杜卡人在他们荒凉的星球上经过无情的训练成为真正的战士，而对于萨杜卡人而言，勇敢与武功是衡量一个人价值的唯一标准。萨杜卡人以前是皇帝的突击部队，现在他们只为空虚的帝国理想而战，但他们的狂热程度丝毫不减——萨杜卡军队近乎宗教性的狂热使他们在战争上非常恐怖。

因此在他们的军事价值观下，萨杜卡人尊重如弗里曼人这样的敌人，而厌恶他们认为软弱无力的伊克斯人。但敌人就是敌人，萨杜卡人几乎不可能超越他们好战的世界观与弗里曼人这样的战士同伴达成任何停战协议。或者他们能做到？

宇航公会，Guild

The Guild have a monopoly on the technology that allows instantaneous travel across vast reaches of space; using Navigators -- humans mutated by saturation in "spice gas," created from Melange -- they travel in massive ships called Heighliners, and, for a price, will ferry the cargo of other Houses.

Dismissed as mere intergalactic ferrymen by the other houses, The Guild hopes to get a stranglehold not just on interstellar transport, but the planet Arrakis as well.

宇航公会垄断了穿越广阔宇宙的即时旅行科技。他们使用导航员——因为摄入饱和香料混合气体而发生变异的人类操控名为“远航机”（Heighliners）的大型舰船进行星际旅行，并运送其他家族的货物——只要开出合适的价格。

被其他家族视为星际摆渡人的宇航公会希望不仅能控制星际运输，还能控制厄拉科基星球。

宇航公会的原著背景科普：

特拉苏家族，Tleilax

Calling themselves the Bene Tleilax, the leaders of this house are religious zealots who preach ceaselessly about the evils of machines. Thus the technology of House Tleilaxu exalts the primacy of organic life through cloning and re-animating the dead. The House's technologies are as twisted as its religious belief in an imminent holy war that will cleanse the universe of machines. 

They are despised by their rivals for different reasons: the Ix hate them as business rivals, the Sardaukar loathe them for defiling their tombs, the Fremen are disgusted with their gruesome technology. But the Tleilaxu, having allied with The Guild, know that the coming Jihad will prove them right.

特拉苏家族自称“贝尼·特拉苏”，这个家族的领袖都是宗教狂热分子，他们不停的宣扬机器的邪恶。因此特拉苏家族的科技通过克隆和复活死者来提高有机生命的地位。特拉苏家族的科技和他们的宗教信仰一样扭曲，他们相信一场即将到来的圣战会净化全宇宙的机器。

他们被对手鄙视的原因各不相同：伊克斯人因他们作为商业对手而憎恨他们；萨杜卡人因他们玷污了自己的坟墓而憎恶他们；弗里曼人厌恶他们可怕的科技。但与家族结盟的特拉苏人知道，即将到来的圣战会证明他们是对的。

特拉苏家族原著背景科普：