Vorian Atreides - Post-Jihad

Post-Jihad

After the Jihad, Vorian left for an anonymous, solitary journey across the Known Universe in order to escape from his former military life. He apparently left with no fanfare in a ship resembling the Dream Voyager, his old update ship.

In the novel Sisterhood of Dune, it is revealed that Vorian moved to the backwater world Kepler, where he lived in a settled valley with his second wife, Mariella, and several generations of family members. During the novel, while Vorian is away, the residents of the valley capable of manual labor are seized by slavers from the planet Poritrin. Vor kills several slavers, and tracks the slave ships to the city of New Starda, where he buys and frees them before seeking revenge against their surviving captors.

Vor travels to the capital of the new Corrino Imperium and meets with Emperor Salvador I, grandson of his former comrade, Viceroy Faykan Butler. He is warmly welcomed by the Salusan populace, and he is asked to take the throne from the Corrinos. Although he declines to do so, Salvador and his brother Roderick become nervous, fearing that Vor might incite a revolution against House Corrino. They demand that he retreats into a deeper exile, and, in exchange, will station Corrino military forces around Kepler. Vor agrees to this, and travels to the planet Arrakis. Unbeknownst to him, he is followed by Griffin Harkonnen, the ambitious grandson of his former friend Abulurd. Griffin confronts Vor in a Buddislamic Free Men sietch deep in the Arrakeen desert, but the two reconcile.

However, Vor is also being followed by two children of Agammemnon, who are technically his half-siblings. These twins, Hyla and Andros, have survived for years in an isolated robotic outpost. Hyla and Andros eventually catch Vor in the desert, and kill Griffin. Pursuing Vor, attempting to convert him to their beliefs in a new Time of Titans, they are swallowed with the sand around them when a sandworm arrives. Vor sends a message of condolence to Griffin's sister, Valya Harkonnen, who spurns the offer and plans revenge.