Sardaukar Training
Brutal combat training bred on the prison planet Salusa Secundus.
Salusa Secundus was built to be merciless, a prison world deliberately kept that way. Sardaukar training is what that cruelty produced. Their physical conditioning, appetite for terror tactics, and fanatical devotion to the Emperor made them the most feared fighters in the Imperium for thousands of years. Children who lived through adolescence there arrived at formal training already harder than most soldiers ever become. They needed only discipline and drill to finish the transformation. Sardaukar doctrine valued psychological dominance as highly as raw skill with a blade. Calculated brutality broke an enemy's nerve before the fighting had properly begun. The reputation for invincibility held for generations. It cracked on Arrakis. There, Fremen fighters shaped by a desert crueler than Salusa Secundus itself proved in open combat that Sardaukar supremacy had never been quite as absolute as the Imperium wanted to believe.
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