d m 1717 Noteworthy Harkonnen s during die ensuing centuries and millennia include Baron Vasiln IV, who claimed to have received a vision from God in the year 1988, and founded the New Islambahai Church, sometimes called the Last Church of Chnst, Sindar-Count Konstantut II, who renounced his title m 2444, gave up all of his possessions, and became a hermit on the desert planet of Arrakis He returned to his home a year later, claiming to have been deluded when he signed his abduction, and sumg for restoration of his lands and titles when his son, SmdarCount Pavel VIII, refused to return them Hie Landsraad, as court of last resort, finally decided to split the estates, and made bom of them jorat Smdar-CQunts, the only such instance in Imperial History, Smdar-Couat Ateksei Haritonnea, murdered by his wife in 2829 when he left her for one of his male slaves, Baron Pimen Harkoaaen-Rabbaa, who used his fortune to stage massive recreations of ancient gladiatorial contests m which men and beasts fought each other to the death He was finally thrown into the nng by his wife and son when he threatened to disinherit them, and was kilted by one of the gladiators before his guards could intervene, Sindar-Count Petr ffl, who was haunted by the fear of his own death, and who used artificial drugs and prohibited mechanical means to keep his withered body alive for four hundred years, finally dying during an orgy when his frail flailing accidentally dislodged one of his bfe-support tubes, Baron Stepan Harkonnen-Montil la who when he failed to volunteer to represent the emperor m kanly, was ordered to be the target m the contest Lady Irina Harkonnen-Lankiveil, one of the few scientists in the Harkonnen line who discovered a means of making tobacco harmless Lord Andrei Harkonnen, heir to the Coun ty of Harkonnen Touro, a renowned cheops player, writer ol sonnets, lover, and raconteur whose handsome good looks and genteel manner made him the darling of the Imperial social set, and a subject of jealousy by Emperor Dcstrym Andrei s foul murder at the hands of Destrym b hired assassins creat ed such an outcry from the Great Houses and the populace m general that Destrym was deposed and executed by the I andsraad and the Third Protectorate set m place to keep the royal claimants off the throne, Andrei's brother, Sindar-Count Dmitru Harkonnen IV, and Dmitru s son, Vsevelod II, and Vsevelod's son Sviatopolk all were renowned for their furthering of charitable institutions and public good works, traits not characteristically those of the Ilarkonnens Baron Vladimir Hdrkonnen XIX, whose struggle with the Atreides is recounted so ably in Harq al Ada s official chronicle of that period was the 228th Head of the House of Harkonnen before his murder in 10193 by Aha Atreides, his granddaughter Vladimir's successor, Feyd Rautha II, reigned only a few minutes before his death m kanly by Emperor Paul 1 The Harkonnen title then should have passed to Feyd-Rautha's elder brother Count Glossu Rabban, but because Glossu's father, Abulurd, had renounced his rights to the Harkonnen title when assuming the County of Lankiveil, Emperor Paul I ruled that the title had passed to the Baron's daughter Lady Jessica Atreides, and she having renounced the title also, had then passed to the next heir, himself, thus being subsumed into the throne The Counts Harkonnen Rabban, generally known only as Counts Rabban, continued to survive as a House Minor for several hundred years into Leto Tl's reign but gradually lost its noble status, along with the other Houses Minor No mention of the Rabban name appears in local records after the year 10884 R R HARKONNEN, VLADIMIR 295 HARKONNEN, VLADIMIR Farther references: HARKONNEN, GUNSENG; HARKONNEN, VLADIMIR; Rezhmaud Sagi, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Mv Years with House Harkonnen, tr Leewi Stim (Giedi Prime: Trammel); Marya von Wikkheiser, House Harkomen, tr.