e planet Powys, in the Mandalay Sector Yevgeny now returned the favor by sheltering Saudir II from questing troops, and raising him as one of his own sons The young Saudir gained his revenge in 445, when he organized a revolt of the provincial Sardaukar, and took the throne in a brief battle that deposed and exiled Sheuset II Saudir IV, as he was now called, ruled six brief years before succumbing to an infected monkey bite He never married, and the Duchy of Eluzai became extinct at his death For centuries thereafter, the Harkonnens, while not officially disgraced, nonetheless filled the role of businessman and planetary squire, and stayed out of Imperial politics Count Abulurd III was stripped of his title when he refused to support the Imperial aspirations of Regent Harmon II al-Qair in HARKONNEN HOUSE OF 293 HARKONNEN HOUSE OF 601, he regained it two years later when Audrn I seized the throne, but was disgraced a second time when his son, losif Harkonnen, was discovered in bed with the emperor s son The Harkonnens were demoted to their lesser title of Lords Tupelo, and were required to pay a large fine into the Imperial treasury Lord Aleksandr IV Harkonnen (reigned 966 1029) supported the ambitions of his demicousm, Feyd al-Feyd, engineering his election to the throne m 1027, reyd returned the favor by having Aleksafldr executed in 1029, and placing his small son, Count Vladimir n, m a foster home Vladimir was raised without the knowledge of his father's background, when I%yd D was murdered by his officers in 1099, the new emperor Josif I of the Alman Comao line issued an edict restoring all lost titles, lands, and properties to their original owners before the accession of Feyd I, where families no longer existed, the land reverted to the crown, and new grants of nobility and estates were issued to JosiPs supporters Wadimir Harkonnen be came Duke of Chanazai About this time the Harkoaaeas were first proposed for membership among the Great Houses, the Harkonnen family had always been enterprising, specializing m the trading of goods for profit, die renting of mercenaries and the pursuit of exotic luxuries for the wealth To translate these assets into power required political acceptance of their family as one of the elite Vladimir Harkonnen persuaded Count Ernst von Wikkheiser to sponsor a resolution in the Landsraad propos ing the Harkonnens as a voting house, the motion failed by a small number of votes when the Atteides spoke against it At the death of Emperor Henoor in in 1604 without immediate heirs, Duke Abuiurd VI attempted to seize power himself, bribing the Commander of the Satdaukar, Col Bashar Nadab Nadar, to institute a popular 'draft' of Harkonnen over the other possible and potential successors among the Comno Cousines Abuiurd was able to purchase much support from the poorer Great Houses, but so were several of the other contenders, and civil war seemed certain, with a possible disiategnrtioE of the emp