Dune (series of books)

Last modified: 2005-06-17 by marc pasquin
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• Introduction
• Pennants
  • Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles
  • House Atreides
  • House Corrino
  • House Harkonnen
  • Muad’dib
  • Sardaukar / Imperial battle flag

• Fictional flags
• Fictional flags in books
• Dune (movie)
• Dune (TV series)

• Official site of the novels

Introduction

For those who never read the book, it's a space opera where a feudal "house", the House of Atreides, is exiled to a dry, sandy planet called "Arrakis", or "Dune", formerly a (very profitable due to a certain "spice") fief of a rival "house", the House of Harkonnen.
Jorge Candeias, 29 july 2002

Pennants

On p.275 of the Dune Encyclopedia, in the article "great houses, arms, pennants, and insignia", is mentioned the following:

"The pennant served chiefly as a battle flag; flown on a long staff, it marked a rallying point for troops in combat. for easy recognition, it usually bore only the principal color or colors of the arms. [...] Houses did not hesitate to adopt special battle flags for situations in which ambiguity might threaten command control."

Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles (CHOAM)

The CHOAM company banner is «yellow with a black and red circle in the center». This flag is hoisted from the imperial cruiser in Arrakis, showing the Emperor's stand in the dispute. This may be on the more significative SF events envolving flags.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 april 2004

House Atreides

by Jorge Candeias

The "Prelude" serie (prequels written by Frank Herbert's son) describe the Atreides banner (if memory serves me right) as Green and black with a red hawk.
Marc Pasquin, 16 january 2002

The book doesn't say the House's symbol is on their banner. In a way it says the opposite: Paul envisions armies with the Atreides banner, where those who served house Atreides on Caladan are recognisable by the red hawk on their uniform. I'd say that would hardly be a feature to recognize them by if that same symbol was on every banner of the army.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 august 2002

Whenever I see someone talking about a "green and black banner", I cant help but to think this banner is a simple bicolour. And, since Herbert was american, the natural thing for him was undoubtedly making it horizontal.
Jorge Candeias, 29 july 2002

In Dune, the Banner is described only as «black and green», when refered to throughout the book. It is used on location in the planets Arrakis and