As he grows up, Atreides learns the ways of Arrakis’s natives, known as the Fremen, including the ability to harness and ride the sandworms. Eventually, he leads a spartan guerrilla uprising, and riding on the backs of sandworms into a devastating battle, he and the native Fremen take the capital city back from the Harkonnens, their insurgency ultimately seizing control of the entire global empire that had backed the Harkonnens’ coup.
