1604 AG


 * Henoor III dies without immediate heirs.
 * Abulurd VI Harkonnen bribes Sardaukar commander, Nadab Nadar, to institute a popular "draft" of Harkonnen over the other possible and potential successors among the Corrino Cousines. Others follow his example and civil war seemed certain.
 * To remedy the situation, Count Philippos Atreides proposes to form and control a Regency while they sort out the various contentions of the heirs and to settle the opposing claims.
 * Philippos and Abulurd fight in a kanly and Philippos emerges victorious
 * Landsraad president Sa'ad Khumali is elected to rule as Emperor, the first of the Regency period