Lost Tleilaxu

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The Lost Tleilaxu are a fictional organization from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. They appear in Hunters of Dune. They are a mixture of Face Dancers that were sent out into uncharted space shortly before the birth of Paul Atreides to colonize uncharted space, an event later known as The Scattering, and Tleilaxu Masters that later found the evolved Face Dancers in the Scattering.

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Like the Tleilaxu, the Lost Tleilaxu have a hierarchy, with Elders at the top and Face Dancers at the bottom. The Lost Tleilaxu have advanced Face Dancers into a form that not even Bene Gesserit Truthsayers can detect. This new breed of Face Dancers had extensively infiltrated the remnants of the Old Empire without anyone noticing.

Despite knowing how to create gholas and having superior Face Dancers, the Lost Tleilaxu do not how to manufacture synthetic spice because that was developed during the Famine Times, long after their line of Tleilaxu departed the Old Empire. Because of this, the Lost Tleilaxu's goal was to rediscover the secret of synthetic spice, which in turn would allow them to break the Bene Gesserit monopoly on spice, and claim the commercial power that is their due.

When the Lost Tleilaxu returned to the Old Empire, they were dismayed to learn that their original Masters had strayed from the Great Belief. The Elders knew they either had to reeducate the original Masters, or remove them. Neither side trusted each other, and the Lost Tleilaxu eventually allied with the Honored Matres and destroyed nearly every Tleilaxu planet, leaving only their holy Bandalong planet partially intact.

The Lost Tleilaxu were ruled by seven Elders, until they were replaced by the Face Dancers. Under the leadership of Khrone, the Lost Tleilaxu's new primary goal is to find the Ithaca, the no-ship that escaped Chapterhouse. Their secondary goal is to create gholas from a partially damaged nullentropy tube found inside a partially charred Tleilaxu Master in Bandalong. ^[1]

Notable Lost Tleilaxu: