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Salusa Secundus is a fictional planet appearing in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of the novel Dune, Herbert writes:

SALUSA SECUNDUS: third planet of Gamma Waiping; designated Imperial Prison Planet after removal of the Royal Court to Kaitain. Salusa Secundus is homeworld of House Corrino, and the second stopping point in migrations of the Wandering Zensunni. Fremen tradition says they were slaves on S.S. for nine generations.

According to the Legends of Dune series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Salusa Secundus was the capital of the League Worlds during the Butlerian Jihad, and the home of the legendary Serena Butler. In Dune and the Prelude to Dune series it's revealed that, after centuries as the capital of the Corrino Padishah Empire, Salusa was devastated by atomics. The Imperial throne was relocated to the planet Kaitain. Millennia later when the last Corrino Emperor was deposed by Paul Atreides, House Corrino was exiled to barren Salusa.
Salusa is also one of two planets on which shigawire is grown (the other being III Delta Kaising).

Legends of Dune

In, Salusa is described thus:

Salusa Secundus was a green world of temperate climate, home to hundreds of millions of free humans in the League of Nobles. Abundant water flowed through open aqueducts. Around the cultural and governmental center of Zimia, rolling hills were embroidered with vineyards and olive groves.

Imperial House Corrino is founded on Salusa Secundus by Viceroy Faykan Butler, the grandnephew of Serena Butler, who takes the name "Corrino" to honor the Battle of Corrin. This battle marks the end of the Butlerian Jihad, with humanity achieving victory over the thinking machines.

Prelude to Dune

Before the events of, an atomic attack carried out by a renegade House had destroyed Salusa Secundus, and Padishah Emperor Hassik Corrino III had relocated the Imperial throne to the planet Kaitain. This attacking House was subsequently exterminated, and no record of its name existed by the time of Dune. Salusa Secundus is intentionally left as a barren wasteland.

Dune

The Padishah Emperors of the Known Universe use Salusa Secundus as a prison planet, a dumping ground for the most violent criminals. Conditions on the planet are so severe that nearly half the inhabitants die before reaching adulthood, and it's infamously known as a "hell world". However, in the events of Dune it's revealed that Imperial House Corrino also makes use of the planet as a secret recruiting and training ground for the fierce Sardaukar troops.
After the downfall of the Imperium to Paul Atreides on Arrakis, House Corrino is exiled to Salusa Secundus, with the exception of the Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV’s eldest daughter, Princess Irulan, who is married to Paul.

Children of Dune

In the novel Children of Dune, Princess Wensicia Corrino, the third daughter of Shaddam IV, plots an assassination attempt on Paul's twin children, Leto II and Ghanima, to retake control of the Empire for her son, Farad'n. The plan fails, and Wensicia was banished back to Salusa.

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