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Events

39 entries tagged Events, 39 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Butlerian Jihad: the war on thinking machines and Golden Path.

Paul vs Feyd-Rautha: the Duel in the Book and the FilmsPaul Atreides kills Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in a knife fight to the death at the end of Dune, in front of the Emperor. Here is how the duel plays out in Frank Herbert's novel, how Feyd cheats, why Paul refuses an easy win, and what Denis Villeneuve changed in Dune: Part Two.
What Happened in the Twelve Years Between Dune and Dune MessiahFrank Herbert skips twelve years between Dune and Dune Messiah, and they are the bloodiest in the saga. Here is what the novels say happened: the holy war and its toll, the priesthood that grew around Paul, and the empire he was left ruling.
Sietch Jacurutu: the water thieves the Fremen erasedSietch Jacurutu was a legendary settlement of the deep desert whose people, the Iduali, murdered other Fremen for the water in their bodies until the tribes banded together and destroyed them. The survivors rebuilt under the name Fondak and sold passage off Arrakis to whoever could pay, and the sietch became the place where the nine year old Leto Atreides II found the shape of his Golden Path.
War of Assassins of 10,187 AG: the ruin of House MoritaniThe second War of Assassins between House Ecaz and House Moritani began with a dead heir, a trade embargo and a wedding turned into a slaughterhouse. It ended on the salt basin outside Ritka with a mad Viscount, a field of buried atomics and a Swordmaster who quietly refused to arm them.
Rebels: uprisings against the Atreides ImperiumThe Rebels were the diverse movements, uprisings and revolts that rose against the Imperium across the centuries of Atreides rule, from armed revolution and terrorism to subversion and sabotage. They ranged from the Great Houses that refused Paul Muad'Dib's succession to the desert rebels of Alia's reign and the cell of Siona Atreides that finally brought down the God Emperor himself.
Arrakis RevoltThe Arrakis Revolt was the uprising of the Fremen of Arrakis under Paul Atreides in the closing stage of the Desert War. Waged as a guerrilla campaign against the Harkonnen occupiers, it crippled spice production, drew in the Padishah Emperor, and ended with the fall of House Corrino.
Assault on RossakThe Assault on Rossak was a cymek attack on the Sorceress homeworld of Rossak launched in retaliation for the death of the Titan Barbarossa during the liberation of Giedi Prime. The Sorceresses repelled the assault with their telepathic mindstorms, but at heavy cost.
Atreides-Harkonnen feudThe Atreides-Harkonnen feud was the ancient blood vendetta between the two Houses, born of a betrayal at the Battle of Corrin and ended ten thousand years later with the annihilation of the Harkonnens on Arrakis.
Battle of ArrakeenThe Battle of Arrakeen was the pivotal engagement of the Arrakis Revolt, fought between Muad'Dib Paul Atreides's Fremen and the Sardaukar of Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV. The Fremen routed the Imperial forces, and in the surrender that followed Paul won control of the known universe.
Battle of CaladanThe Battle of Caladan was an attempted Harkonnen and Moritani assault on the Atreides homeworld in the expanded novel Dune: House Corrino. Mentat Thufir Hawat repelled it without a shot, using projectors to fake an overwhelming defensive fleet.
Battle of CorrinThe Battle of Corrin was the space battle of 88 BG from which the Imperial House Corrino took its name. Fought near Sigma Draconis, it settled the ascendancy of the ruling House from Salusa Secundus and gave rise to the feud between House Harkonnen and House Atreides.
Battle of DenaliThe Battle of Denali was the last engagement of the galactic civil war, fought between Venport Holdings and the forces of Emperor Roderick Corrino over the hidden research planet of Denali. It ended Venport Holdings, destroyed the robot Erasmus, and led directly to the founding of the Spacing Guild.
Battle of Giedi PrimeThe Battle of Giedi Prime was a brief assault by Agamemnon's cymeks against the League planet Giedi Prime, launched in retaliation for the machine defeat at Zimia. A sacrificial cruiser shattered the planet's shield generators, allowing the Titans to seize the world and install a new Omnius incarnation.
Battle of JunctionThe Battle of Junction was the final battle of the war between the Bene Gesserit and the Honored Matres. A seeming Bene Gesserit victory turned to disaster, and it was salvaged only by Murbella's desperate gamble to seize control of the Honored Matres.
Battle of LampadasThe Battle of Lampadas was the penultimate engagement of the galactic civil war, a three-way fight between the Butlerian movement, Venport Holdings, and the forces of Emperor Roderick Corrino. It ended with the death of Leader Manford Torondo, the crippling of the Butlerians, and a devastating blow to Venport Holdings.
Battle of RakisThe Battle of Rakis was an engagement in the war between the Bene Gesserit and the Honored Matres. The Honored Matres attacked and killed Mother Superior Alma Mavis Taraza, and ultimately destroyed the planet and its sandworms, sparing only the single worm the Bene Gesserit carried away.
Butlerian Jihad: the war on thinking machinesIt began with a slave rebellion on Earth in 201 BG and ended at Corrin in 88 BG. Out of it came the ban on machines in the likeness of a mind.
Desert War: the fall of the Corrino EmpireThe Desert War is the fight for Arrakis told in Frank Herbert's Dune. It destroyed House Harkonnen, ended the Corrino Empire, and put Paul Atreides on the Golden Lion Throne.
Financial SynodThe Financial Synod of Aerarium IV was convened by Emperor Saudir I to settle the Spacing Guild's place among the Landsraad. After years of deadlock, the emperor broke the impasse with a plan that created CHOAM and gave the Imperium its enduring commercial and political order.
First Battle of ZimiaThe First Battle of Zimia was an assault by Agamemnon's robotic forces against Salusa Secundus, the capital of the League of Nobles. It was the first concentrated machine aggression after a century of cold war, and the defense of the city's shield generators made the reputation of Xavier Harkonnen.
First EmpireThe First Empire was the dominant form of ancient human society on Terra and its interstellar vicinity, lasting some 6395 years from 16500 to 11105 BG. Its expansion into space outran its own ability to govern, and the failure of swift communication eventually brought it down.
Galactic civil warThe galactic civil war was a three way conflict of the first century of the Corrino Empire, fought between House Corrino, the commercial power of Venport Holdings, and the anti technology Butlerian movement. House Corrino emerged victorious, the Butlerians were annihilated and Venport Holdings dissolved, and the surviving Navigator subsidiary became the independent Spacing Guild.
Golden PathThe Golden Path was an expansive prescient interpretation, visible only to the Kwisatz Haderach and the Bene Gesserit, that revealed the single optimum route through the threads of cause and effect that would guarantee the long term survival of the human race.
Great ConventionThe Great Convention was the universal truce of the Imperium, held in place by the balance of power between the Spacing Guild, the Great Houses and the Imperium. Its chief law forbade the use of atomics against human targets, and its rules governed Kanly and the War of Assassins.
Great Spice WarThe Great Spice War was a military campaign waged by House Corrino shortly before the birth of Paul Atreides. Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV ordered the Sardaukar to seize and destroy the secret melange stockpiles of the Landsraad so that no Great House could resist his planned spice substitute, Amal.
Great SurrenderThe Great Surrender was a ceremony held in 10198 AG, in the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Paul Atreides, at which the nobles of the Landsraad came to Arrakis to pledge loyalty to his Jihad. The event was marked by an elaborate assassination attempt that was eventually traced to the Swordmaster Whitmore Bludd.
KralizecKralizec, also called the Typhoon Struggle, was the long foretold battle at the end of the universe. The God Emperor Leto Atreides II used the term for the chaotic age of Famine and Scattering that followed his death, and it later named the final war against the Thinking Machines.
Last conspiracy against Muad'DibThe last conspiracy against Muad'Dib was the alliance formed twelve years into Paul's reign to bring down the Padishah Emperor Paul Atreides. It ended with the blinded Emperor walking into the desert and the regency of his sister Alia.
Leto Atreides' Trial by ForfeitureLeto Atreides' Trial by Forfeiture was the Landsraad tribunal held on Kaitain in 10156 AG after a framed attack on a Tleilaxu vessel. The young Duke's defiant gambit won his acquittal and the respect of the Imperium.
Liberation of Giedi PrimeThe Liberation of Giedi Prime was the battle that returned the planet to the League of Nobles after its occupation by the thinking machines, won by a combined assault and the sacrifice of a Sorceress of Rossak.
Muad'Dib's Jihad: the holy war that remade the ImperiumMuad'Dib's Jihad is the holy war fought by the Fremen legions in Paul Atreides's name. Paul foresees it all through Dune, and when Dune Messiah opens twelve years later it is still being fought, with sixty-one billion dead by his own count.
Paulus Atreides' 10156 bullfightThe final bullfight of Duke Paulus Atreides took place in the Plaza de Toros on Caladan in 10156 AG. It ended in his death when his wife Helena conspired with the Harkonnens to leave his banderilla undrugged, allowing the Salusan bull to gore him before the assembled crowd.
Rebellion on EarthThe Rebellion on Earth was a planet-wide uprising of human slaves against their robotic masters, ignited when the captive Serena Butler's child was killed by Erasmus. Though the machines ultimately exterminated all human life on Earth, the revolt inspired the League of Nobles to launch the Butlerian Jihad.
Rossak EpidemicThe Rossak Epidemic was a mutated strain of the Omnius Scourge that evolved in the jungles of Rossak, far deadlier than the original plague. It resisted melange and conventional treatment until Raquella Berto-Anirul synthesised an antidote within her own body and destroyed the mutation.
Salusa IncidentThe Salusa Incident was the renegade atomic attack by House Tantor that devastated Salusa Secundus and forced House Corrino to move the Imperial Throne to Kaitain. The young Emperor Hassik Corrino III rebuilt the dynasty and turned the ruined homeworld into the Imperial prison planet.
The ScatteringThe Scattering was the great dispersal of humanity into uncharted space that followed the death of the God Emperor Leto II. Driven by famine and the collapse of his empire, countless humans fled the Old Imperium forever, fulfilling the design of the Golden Path.
Siege of ArrakeenThe Siege of Arrakeen was the night assault in 10191 AG in which House Harkonnen, backed by Imperial Sardaukar disguised as Harkonnen troops, destroyed House Atreides on Arrakis. Duke Leto Atreides was killed and his heir Paul fled into the desert.
Suboid RevoltThe Suboid Revolt was a rebellion in which the suboid lower class of Ix, secretly stirred up by the Bene Tleilax and backed by Imperial Sardaukar, rose against House Vernius over alleged violations of the Butlerian Jihad. It ended with the fall of Ix and the exile of the Vernius family.
War of the League of Nobles and Synchronized EmpireThe war between the League of Nobles and the Synchronized Empire was a centuries-long war of attrition between free humanity and the thinking machines ruled by Omnius. Its final phase, including the battles of Zimia, Giedi Prime, and Rossak, set the stage for the ignition of the Butlerian Jihad.