Tleilax

From Dune

Tleilax (also known as Tleilaxa) is the sole planet in the Thalim star system, and was home to the Bene Tleilax - a society of genetically altered highly religious, and xenophobic humans.

Prior to the Butlerian Jihad, it was known as Tlulax, an Unallied planet and was known for providing slaves and biological material. It was widely thought that the Tlulaxa ran organ farms, growing body parts from viable cells, which they sold during wartime to the battlefield surgeons. The truth however was that the bodies were taken from what the Tleilaxu considered useless slaves.

Millennia later, the planet was called Tleilax and was known primarily for two things; Tleilax was the location of a renegade training center for Mentats, and was noted as the source of Twisted mentats. Tleilax was also the home of the Tleilaxu, a race of humans composed of genetic scientists and Face Dancers.

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Environmentally Tleilax was a beautiful Earth-like world, with a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere. It contained many areas of manicured terrain and vegetation.

It was home to several conurbations, chiefly the Tleilaxu holy city of Bandalong, which was reserved exclusively for Tleilaxu natives. Another such city was Thalidei, a city known for the attempted secret creation of the failed Tleilaxu Kwisatz Haderach. Scattered in and around the urban areas were large light industrial facilities which were used for the production of biological components and lifeforms, including Face Dancers and Gholas.

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[edit] Behind the Scenes

In the prequel novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and set several thousand years before Dune, Tleilax is named Tlulax.