Talk:Timeline (Dr. Attila Torkos)

Sandtrout on Arrakis

 * Sandtrout are brought to Arrakis from an unknown place. Sandtrout begin desertification of the originally water-rich Arrakis and later start the sandtrout-sandworm-melange cycle. [Children of Dune]
 * Sandtrout are brought to Arrakis from an unknown place. Sandtrout begin desertification of the originally water-rich Arrakis and later start the sandtrout-sandworm-melange cycle. [Children of Dune]


 * appr. 1200 B.C.
 * Birth of Agamemnon, son of Atreus. The future Atreides family descending from Andrew Skouros claims to trace their lineage this far back.

Does anyone have any idea why Dr Torkos placed the CoD reference to the bringing of sandtrout to Arrakis before 1200 B.C., at a time when there could not possibly have been any spacefaring human civilizations of Terran origin? If, as was hinted in Paul of Dune, the "Muadru" were somehow involved, wouldn't the entry be better placed sometime within the 11,000 years before the Butlerian Jihad? --SandChigger 02:53, April 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps he followed the concept "ancient extinct space mysteries/aliens that existed before us". After all, his timeline was assembled before PoD. MoffRebusMy Talk 09:14, April 8, 2010 (UTC)