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League of Nobles
6 entries tagged League of Nobles, 6 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Butlerian Jihad: the war on thinking machines and Serena Butler.
- Manion Butler the Innocent: first martyr of the Butlerian JihadManion Butler the Innocent was the infant son of Serena Butler and Xavier Harkonnen, born into slavery on machine occupied Earth and murdered by the robot Erasmus before his first year was out. His death ignited the slave revolt that grew into the Butlerian Jihad, and he was sanctified as the first of its Three Martyrs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Serena ButlerSerena Butler was a Salusan noblewoman whose enslavement by the thinking machines and the murder of her infant son helped ignite the Butlerian Jihad. As its High Priestess she became a living symbol of the war, and her staged death on Corrin made her one of its Three Martyrs.
- 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.