HOUSE. Foundation of. The House of Atreides was also called the House of Pelops, successively Lords of Tantalos Counts of Thuestes, Counts of Aramanh, Counts Chalcedony, Sindar Counts of Hoosak Norn, in the Cleo System, Sindar Counts of Hestia, Dukes of Atreus, Sindar Dukes of Gallatm Sindar Dukes of Caladan, Sindar Dukes of Arrakis, and Emperors of the Known Universe, junior titles include Barons Pelops, Barons Menelaus. Barons Aigisthos, Counts Atreides, Counts Gamnomdes, distaff titles include Barons Mukenai, Lords Theseides, and Counts Delos The House of Atreides (sometimes called the House of Atreus) claimed descent from the mythical Greek heroes, Pelops and Atreus, then- actual descent, however, can only be proven from the time of the Butlenan Jihad EARLY HISTORY The first mention of an Atreides in histoncal records occurs in Camdle de Bry's The Great Revolt A Popular Histo ry of the Jihad which drew on eyewitness accounts, diaries, surviving documents, and oral tradition to produce a rather lund rendition of the heroic struggle between man and machine Bry s work mentions one Aga- ATREIDES, HOUSE 56 ATREIDES, HOUSE memnon d'Atreides, Governor of the Brunig District, who was assassinated about 175 B.C. while defending the use of computers before the rioting masses. Hie location of the "Brunig District" was not mentioned by leading some to speculate that die incident (and the person) were invented by an overac-tive imagination. It is certain that Demetrios Atreides participated in the Battle of Corrin as a junior officer, serving with the soon-to-be emperor's forces in the struggle against the Landsraad. Demetrios Atreides is blown to have enlisted as a Sardaukar Auxiliary in the Sixth Draco Wing, which represented a number of the planets in the Mockmuhl Cluster near Upsiton Dracotiis. Demetrios was made a gunnery officer on the ship Lu-to. and assumed command of his vessel early in die three-day battle after all the senior officers were killed. During one phase of the battk, when Sulaimaii al-Hajj Kunaitra threatened to turn Sheuset Costm's left flank after the desertion of Bashar Abulurd Harkonnen, Atreides rallied Costin's forces, and spearheaded & desperation attack that took Kunaitra by surprise.