House Haider

House Minor subservient to House Perko and through them to House Harkonnen.

Homeworld: Volod

House Type: Minor

Traits: Business minded, Preserving but also exploiting nature, secular

Vassal to: House Harkonnen (the Harkonnens elevated the Haiders to Minor House status)

Allies: none

Enemies: House Melech (the Melechs consider the Haiders to be infidels)

Primary Domain: Farming trees, manufacturing wood for export to the Galaxy and furniture for global distribution. Pharmaceuticals derived from Dopinese plants. The House's biggest customer is the School of Aramoy, despite the animosity between Haider and Melech. Its factories in Aramoy City are so successful that they have eclipsed the domestic ones in terms of supplying Volod. This has Created capacity to allow Interstellar trade.

Secondary Domain: breeding of flora and fauna for export to other worlds, often complementing House Perko's terraforming business. They do good business with House Anson supplying food and developing plants that thrive in spaceborne greenhouses. Haider's biological expertise falls well short of the Tleilaxu but also lacks the problems of dealing with the Tleilaxu.

The house must pay an annual tithe of soldiers to House Harkonnen every year. It gets these from regions that oppose Haider rule.

House Roles

Ruler: Akbar Haider
Consort: Zarina Sardar
Heir: Yasmin Haider
Advisor: Azhar Dayal
Chief Physician: Jada bint Hussein
Ecology Master: position vacant
Envoy: Kasem bin  (acts as liaison with House Harkonnen) (disparagingly referred to as Abd El-Harkonnen)
Deputy Marshall and Swordmaster: Jasir Talwar (partly responsible for assembling the annual tithe of soldiers)
Marshal and Bowmaster: Imran Varma (partly responsible for assembling the annual tithe of soldiers)
Spymaster: Neelam bint Jan

The House rules over much of the continent of Dopin-Nam on the planet Volod. It is a wild and untamed place. Areas of it are independent of and resist Haider rule.

The Haiders have increased their and the continent's wealth through trade. However, many are critical of the House's move away from conservation and living in harmony with nature to exploiting it for profit.

History

House Harkonnen elevated the Haiders to Minor House status after going into an alliance with House Perko. The latter originally opposed the creation of House Haider, but the Perkos realised that Dopin-Nam was a wild and ungovernable place. Their relationship evolved into one of alliance.