The Battle of Earth was the climatic battle that started the Butlerian Jihad.
Prelude
The battle was a result of Serena Butler, Vorian Atreides, and Iblis Ginjo's return to Salusa Secundus after their escape from Erasmus on Earth. Upon their return the League of Nobles learned of the death of Manion the Innocent at the hands of Erasmus and how that sparked the slave revolt led by Iblis.
As soon as the Dream Voyager arrived to Salusa, the League Armada dispatched its fastest scout. After several weeks, the pilot returned with his terrible report, that only thinking machines remained on Earth. Every single rebel, slave or trustee was dead. Ginjo who was at that time in the interrogation room spoke about the concept of the jihad. Since the rebels were motivated by the name and the pain of Serena Butler, if they would achieve all this, then a coordinated military assault would accomplish much more.
Serena made her plea that victory over the Thinking Machines was the only way to ensure humanity's survival in the League Parliament. The senators questioned the effectiveness of tha movie, but Xavier Harkonnen proposed to use atomics, a last resort doomsday weapon that hadn't been used until then. There was no dissent and the proposal formally passed.
Preparations
In the following 3 months, from their separate space navies, each League World dispatched ships in every kind; munitions factories on Vertree Colony, Komider, and Giedi Prime had worked beyond peak-production levels without rest humanity assembled the most powerful, concentrated military force for thousands years.
Swelling with vessels and weapons and countless commanders from planetary defense systems, militias, and home guards, the unified Armada gathered at the orbital launch point above Salusa Secundus. Many of them were armed with atomics enough to sterilize Earth three times over.
The battle
With the help of Xavier Harkonnen and Vorian Atreides, a human trustee with valuable inside information and machine thinking, the League Armada launched an all out strike against the Earth Omnius. Atreides was not much trusted and had to prove his loyalty to the humans in the battle.
During the assault, Omnius Prime realized he was doomed and sent an update ship carrying a gelsphere with a copy of himself for the other synchronized worlds, carrying orders about the extermination of humans. Atreides was the only one who noticed it and was faced with a grave choice. He had to abandon his post, condemning thus his co-pilots in the battle. He intercepted the update ship and board it; there he found Seurat. He managed to neutralize him and apprehend the gelsphere.
In the process planet Earth was completely irradiated and turned into a burnt husk.
The Battle of Earth was the first engagement of the Butlerian Jihad against the Machines.
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