Kaitain
The opulent Imperial capital, seat of House Corrino for ten thousand years.
Ten thousand years of Padishah Emperors sat on Kaitain, and the planet shows every century of it. It was the single most lavish world in the Imperium. The gardens were manicured to the last leaf. The palaces stood tall enough to overwhelm any visitor with Corrino wealth on purpose. Even the climate had been terraformed and tended purely for Imperial comfort. The whole world was a monument, arguing without a word that the Corrinos alone deserved the Golden Lion Throne. Landsraad diplomacy and Imperial court ceremony played out here in their most intricate form. The court games ran so precise that one wrong gesture could end a House as thoroughly as a lost battle. Shaddam IV's gamble on Arrakis cost House Corrino the throne in the end. Kaitain's long run as the undisputed heart of Imperial power ended with it.
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