Character Analysis. Rabban is the Baron Harkonnen's idiotic and cruel nephew. The Baron thinks of his nephew as a " [m]uscle-minded tank-brain" (26.208). Frank Herbert must have felt the same way, because Rabban is less a character than a plot device. More @Wikipedia
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