Dune category
League of Nobles
5 entries tagged League of Nobles. Every entry is sourced from Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, the later companion titles, or the official reference material.
- Assault on RossakThe Assault on Rossak was a cymek attack on the Sorceress homeworld of Rossak in 201 BG, 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 JihadThe Butlerian Jihad was the century long crusade waged by free humanity against the computers, thinking machines and conscious robots of the Synchronized Empire. Beginning with the slave rebellion on Earth in 201 BG and ending with the imprisonment of Omnius on Corrin, it reshaped human civilization and produced the commandment that no machine may be made in the likeness of a human 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.