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Its name is derived from the Roman numeral IX, and it specializes in the production of complex machinery including the Guild Heighliners and fighting machines. Often these machines flaunt the proscriptions of the Butlerian Jihad which forbids the making of a machine in the likeness of the human mind.

At the beginning of Prelude to Dune the Ixians are ruled by House Vernius. Elrood IX , who desired a Melange substitute and who wanted to pay back Dominic Vernius for two offenses against him (stealing a concubine - later to be called Shando Vernius from Elrood and making larger Heighliner ships, stripping Elrood of tax revenue), decided that a Tleilaxu invasion of Ix would kill two birds with one stone.

The Tleilaxu invade in House Atreides, on the (somewhat justified) pretext that House Vernius were creating thinking machines (a fighting Mek was created shortly before in the story) and are driven out of Ix in House Corrino. Some years later the Ixians are freed from the Tleilaxu.

By the time of Dune the Ixians are other than the Bene Tleilax probably the most successful of the fringe worlds that maintain a sophisticated technological base, having had their technological base rebuilt at the cost of House Corrino reparations. Their form of government seems to have been transformed into a meritocracy.

During the Famine times the Ixians became a major power in the known universe, with the invention first of no-shipsA No-ship is a fictional type of spacecraft from the Dune science fiction series by Frank Herbert. Essentially, a No-ship is a type of No-chamber that can be used for interstellar transportation. Like a No-chamber, anything inside a No-ship is hidden from which contain machines that duplicate the abilities of Guild NavigatorDune In the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert Guild Navigators are humans mutated through high consumption of the spice melange, who is safely able to navigate interstellar space in a Heighliner. Guild Navigators are specially selected for their pres, hide the people within from presciencePrescience is the ability to predict the future through vision. Throughout history a number of cultures have believed that oracles have possessed this ability. It is one of a number of alleged psychic phenomena studied by Parapsychology. According to the; with the advantage of being far cheaper. It is the development of this cheaper form of space travel which fuels the scattering .

By the time of Heretics of DuneHeretics of Dune is a Science Fiction novel by Frank Herbert, fifth in a series of six novels. 1,500 years have passed since Leto's reign ended; humanity is firmly on the Golden Path. By crushing the aspirations of humans for 3,500 years, Leto caused the the power of the Ixians seems at its apex with their alliance with the Fish SpeakersThe Fish Speakers are a fictional army from Frank Herbert's Dune universe, as depicted in the Dune series of science-fiction novels. Emperor Leto Atreides II created them between Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune novels. They were led by the variou; but Bene GesseritDune The Bene Gesserit are a key group from Frank Herbert's science fiction universe of Dune''. They are a secretive sisterhood of women who train their bodies and minds though years of physical and mental conditioning, attaining powers and abilities that analysts see them as a failing power, because Ixian society has become a bureaucracy and no great inventions have come out of the workshops of Ix for centuries.

When the Honoured MatresThe Honoured Matres are an organisation in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert in his Dune series of novels. The Honoured Matres are an organisation of women that evolved out in the Scattering. It is believed that were a mix of Fish Speak conquer the Old Empire, the Ixians are reduced to being a barely tolerated technological combine.