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  • Slavers begin to harass the Arrakis Zensunni settlements.
  • Quentin Butler is captured by the Titans and transformed into a cymek.
  • Norma Cenva discovers the use of melange for spacefolders. She becomes the first Navigator.
  • The Rossak Epidemic breaks. Raquella Berto-Anirul and Mohandas Suk travel to there.
  • Supported by the Cult of Serena, Faykan Butler declares himself Viceroy, and installs a law that prohibits the production of thinking machines.
  • Yorek Thurr flees Corrin for Salusa Secundus and kills Xander Boro-Ginjo.
  • The Cult of Serena starts to destroy machines on Salusa Secundus and Cogitor Vidad is killed.
  • Abulurd Harkonnen kills Yorek Thurr.
  • Ticia Cenva poisons Raquella Berto-Anirul, but she changes her internal body chemistry and transforms into the first Reverend Mother.
  • Ticia Cenva commits suicide.
  • Vorian Atreides and Quentin Butler kill the last three Titans, Agamemnon, Juno and Dante, and Quentin Butler is killed as the neo-cymeks begin to shut down.
  • Chirox kills Nar Trig, now a loyal member of the Cult of Serena, in combat, then shuts himself down to prevent Istian Goss from being killed by Cultists.
  • The League launches the Battle of Corrin. Omnius draws the Bridge of Hrethgir around Corrin to stop the human fleet but Vorian Atreides launches the attack. Abulurd Harkonnen tries to sabotage him to save the slaves. The Corrin-Omnius broadcasts a copy of itself into space before humanity destroys the last incarnations of Omnius and the thinking machines.
  • Gilbertus Albans saves the brain of Erasmus from the holocaust, escaping Corrin in disguise as a human slave and going to Lecter as a farmer.
  • Slave pen master Horis Roker also escapes, changing his name and beginning a new life in exile.
  • Adrien Venport founds Foldspace Shipping Company. The spacefolders are navigated by prescience enabled by melange, based on Norma's breakthrough.
  • To commemorate the Battle of Corrin, Faykan Butler takes the name Corrino, and joining the titles of Grand Patriarch and Viceroy he declares himself the emperor of humanity, founding the Corrino Empire.
  • The Golden Lion Throne is set up for Faykan.
  • The League of Nobles is disbanded and replaced by the Landsraad League of Great Houses, headed by the Imperial House Corrino.
  • At Vorian Atreides’s suggestion, Abulurd Harkonnen is declared a coward and exiled. Abulurd settles on Lankiveil and passes his hatred of Vorian Atreides to the next Harkonnen-generation, which will eventually give birth to enmity between House Atreides and House Harkonnen.
  • Raquella Berto-Anirul becomes leader of the surviving Sorceresses and founds the Sisterhood of Rossak to preserve mankind’s genetic heritage. The secret agreement with the Jews passes to the Sisterhood and will remain for 15,000 years.[1]
  • Ishmael and a group of Free Men harassed by slavers move to the deep desert of Arrakis. The Free Men adapting to the harsh lifestyle will during the next centuries become the Fremen people. El'hiim and his followers slowly merge with the townfolk of the North Pole of Arrakis.[2]
  • With the lead of the Cult of Serena, machine destruction hits the inhabited worlds in renewed waves wiping out most of the machine-based technology and also the majority of historical documents. Culture based on the production of highly developed machines survives only on Ix and Richese.
  • Dr. Mohandas Suk founds a medical school like the League has never seen, the Suk Medical School, after witnessing the Omnius Scourge and Rossak Epidemic.
  1. Chapterhouse: Dune, page 35
  2. Dune: The Battle of Corrin, page 374
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