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Dune: Arrakis

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Arrakis—informally known as Dune—is a harsh desert world orbiting the star Canopus. It is the only known source of the spice melange, the most valuable substance in the universe.

Life on Arrakis is defined by the absence of surface water and the presence of the Shai-Hulud, the great sandworms that dominate the deep desert.

Celestial Bodies (6)

Canopus
star · system center · 15,000,000 km diameter

A massive, highly luminous supergiant star. Its intense energy pushes the system's habitable zone billions of kilometers into deep space.

Canopus I
planet · orbits Canopus · 350,000,000 km · 8,500 km diameter

A hellish, tidally locked world baked by the immense radiation of Canopus.

Canopus II
planet · orbits Canopus · 680,000,000 km · 5,200 km diameter

A stripped, heavy-metal core of a planet that had its mantle blown away by stellar winds eons ago.

Arrakis
planet · orbits Canopus · 1,450,000,000 km · 15,400 km diameter

A harsh desert planet. It is the only known source in the universe of the spice melange. He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Krelln
moon · orbits Arrakis · 1,200,000 km · 3,200 km diameter

The first moon of Arrakis. It features a massive crater formation resembling a desert mouse, known to the Fremen as Muad'Dib.

Arvon
moon · orbits Arrakis · 2,800,000 km · 1,800 km diameter

The second moon of Arrakis. Its shadowy surface topology roughly resembles the shape of a human hand.