| abstract | - Hunting Harkonnens is a short story by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set prior to the events of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. The Harkonnen family moved to Salusa Secundus from Hagal. Ulf Harkonnen scolded his son, Piers for being too soft with the slaves. Above Caladan, a fleet of cymek ships led by Agamemnon attacked the transport. Everyone died except Piers who was jettisoned on the planet. The cymeks still pursued him in the jungle when he met a tribe of Zensunni Caladan primitives led by Tiddoc. These particular Zensunni primitives lived in a geologically unstable region of the planet. They have their way to battle with cymeks, and how to disable them with minimal losses. Piers observed how they managed to attack and dismantle, part by part, the cymek who pursued him, and how they took the cymek's brain canister as a trophy, which they tortured afterwards. The next day, Agamemnon himself visited the planet. The battle with the tribesmen erupted, when eventually Agamemnon grasped Piers. Unfortunately for both, they stood above a geyser, and fell into a lava pit. Agamemnon's brain canister detached and flew off the planet, while Piers survived, terribly bruised. Piers knew there was no way to go back, and joined the tribe of the Zensunnis; none in the League of Nobles will ever know his fate. Xavier Harkonnen on Salusa, is virtually without family, and is adopted by the Tantors.
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