KIS ECOLOGICAL TRANSFOR MATION FREMEN KYNES LIET Pardot KyilCS Ecology of Dune tr Ewan Gwalan Airakis Studies 24 (Gramman United Worlds) idem Notes of a Planetary Ecotogist Lib Conf Temp Series 28"? idem Storm Systems and Their Effects Lib Conf Temp Series 289 LANDSRAAD 362 LANDSRAAD LANDSRAAD. (History and Structure) The most ancient of those institutions which formed the Impenum. The Impermm did not exist until ai) of us institutions were combined. CHOAM, the Imperial House, the Spacing Guild and the Landsraad. CHOAM and the Guild early became part of the structure of the economy and supporters of (he government, but the Landsraad had already existed for more than two millennia. Given this long history, it is not surprising that the nature of the Landsraad changed during the chaotic few centuries which saw the rise of the Butlenan Jihad, the birth of feudal governments on most of the inhabited worlds, and finally the development of the Imperium The pre-ButJenan Landsraad was an organization of represent&ives of governments which was granted certain restricted powers by those governments The Landsraad collected ao taxes and maintained no armed forces of its own. It could call upon the military strength of its members to enforce a decision made during one of its sessions, but even then participation in such expeditions was voluntary on die part of die governments The early Landsraad served as a deliberative body for the debate and adjudication of disputes between two or more of its member governments, or alleged violations of some agreement between the parties.