Chapter House

Chapter House is a fictional planet in the science fiction novel series Dune, by Frank Herbert.

It appears for the first time mentioned in Heretics of Dune, as the headquarters planet of the Bene Gesserit. Its location is kept secret to avoid attack by the Honored Matres.

In Dune Chapter House the planet is immersed in an ecological transformation that facilitates the breeding and establishment of the life cycle of sandworms transplanted from Arrakis, in order to resurrect the myth of Dune and use it through the Missionaria Protectiva to create a new religion around the figure of Sheeana, the girl who appeared on Arrakis and who is capable of controlling the worms.

Location

In the last book (Chapterhouse Dune), written before the death of Frank Herbert (author of the Saga), the Chapterhouse is located in the territory occupied by the former empire of Leto II. This world is the most sought after by the bloodthirsty Honored Matres who are destroying one by one the worlds sympathetic or allied or controlled by the Bene Gesserit, therefore all their efforts are directed to finding clues and according to the novel, they randomly roam around space. looking for signs of him.

It is also notable that their search would take years, as the Great Dispersion raised human-enlarged space to perhaps hundreds or thousands of galaxies, and although the Ancient Empire of Leto II was 10 times smaller in size than the Matres, It was also multigalactic (God Emperor of Dune), and therefore, it could be in any of the galaxies of the old empire, and since a galaxy is quite large, the sisters are shielded from the prescient effect or detection by prescience, with blood and Siona genes.

Chapter House Status

The planet of Chapterhouse (at the time Odrade assumes the Supreme Stand), had been inhabited by humans for thousands of years, and controlled by the Bene Gesserit Sisters for thousands more. It was a world of vegetables, farms and fruit orchards, with the sea, and possibly polar caps.

In Dune Chapterhouse, this planet has been chosen by the brotherhood to be the new Dune, the only and last sandworm saved from the destruction of Arrakis. Dune has been planted in the Chapterhouse desert, and has managed to quadruple the area of the small desert. Sand trout, encapsulating the water, will transform the entire planet into a desert, creating repercussions on the inhabitants.

The reason for the transformation of the Chapter House

The new planet inhabited by worms will create, according to the sisters, a new river for the spice to flow to the coffers of the Order, since Arrakis has been destroyed, and the Tleilaxu (except Master Scytale), and their tanks Producers of the orange spice melange have also been massacred.

Mother Superior Odrade speculates that Chapterhouse will be the new focus of religious tensions in the universe, as Sister Sheeana controls the newborn worms, and a cult developing in the empire around her will take the reins. religious in the hands of the Bene Gesserit Sisters, who will unleash a Jihad against the Honoratas Matres if they resist.

Conclusion

In the end, this plan fails, leaving as the only solution the control of the Chapter House by the Honoratas Matres and their new Rector, Mother Superior and Grand Honorata Matre Murbella, and the marriage of the two orders/organizations. However, the process of desertification continues even with this change, and its result is exposed with the new novels Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune, by Brian Herbert (son of the original author of the Saga).

Bibliographical reference

• Frank Herbert, Herejes de Dune. Editions Debolsillo: Barcelona, 2003. ISBN 978-84-9759-731-9
• Frank Herbert, Dune Capitular House. Editions Debolsillo: Barcelona, 2003. ISBN 9788497597708
• Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson Dune Hunters. Plaza & Janés, Barcelona, 2008. ISBN 9788401336799