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• Butlerian Jihad
  The '''Butlerian Jihad''' is an epic turning point in the back-story of [[Frank Herbert]]'s fictional [[Dune universe]]. In a nutshell, thinking This back-story in the original Dune novels has now been made into a series of novels by He
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• March 2008 Interview
  ...Dune, what made you decide which ones to bring back? Why did you not bring back [[Gurney Halleck]]?'''
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• Dune II
  ==Story== ...collect [[melange|spice]] with harvestors from sand dunes, have it brought back and refined for credits, and to build and purchase military combat units wi
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• Fremen
  ...end of the technology tree, leaving the Fremen unavailable until the later story-based missions. Fremen can be accesed in any skirmish or multiplayer game, ...attacks can leave the enemy economy crippled, and the Fremen can disapear back into the desert before any meaningful counter attack can be made.
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• September 2003 interview
  ...fore. Reading Dune truly changed the way I looked at literature. I looked back at some of the previous novels I'd read and laughed at them after I'd finis ...y had to tread veeeery carefully . But with this new series, they've gone back nearly 10,000 years to a time that my grandfather only hinted about. They'v
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• February 2004 Interview
  ...I noticed even more layers. I STILL find new things in it every time I go back.'' ...asked Brian to write DUNE novels with him, preferably the Butlerian Jihad story, and the last novel he completed in life, MAN OF TWO WORLDS, was a collabor
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• Ix
  ...[[Elrood IX]], who desired a [[Melange]] substitute and who wanted to pay back Dominic Vernius for two offences against him (stealing a concubine - later ...eating thinking machines (a fighting Mek was created shortly before in the story) and are driven out of Ix in ''[[House Corrino]]''. Some years later the Ix
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• February 2001 interview
  ...entually. I can tell you this: it would have followed the outline of the story as told in the DE, with Jehanne Butler as hero ...discussed this in the oft printed and oft posted longish interview we had back in 1968. He and I also discussed the overall, but not specific, similaritie
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• Dune (1984 film)
  ...roduction traces back to 1975, when Alejandro Jodorowsky tried to film the story as a ten hours feature with collaboration from Orson Welles, Salvador Dalí ...ated $42 million budget. This might have been due to the complexity of the story, featured in the movie in a thin, loose, and dream-like trail. On his revie
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• Hunters of Dune
  ...Enemy]]. This unknown enemy was responsible for driving the Honored Matres back into the [[Old Empire]]. ...The mysterious [[Oracle of Time]] speaks to Duncan and brings the no-ship back into the 'regular' universe. However, it is soon discovered by the mysterio
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• House Ordos
  ...uld be best to take all of the fun elements in the game and create our own story.'' ...e that the book was very rare and would not let me take it home. So on the back of a Keno pad I started writing down the profiles of all of the houses. (I
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• November 2003 interview
  ...critic questioned why we included such a strong extrasensory theme in the story, and said that this was not in the Dune universe. Obviously, that critic mi ...found minor errors in our Dune novels after publication, and we have gone back to the publishers and asked them to make corrections. We also found some mi
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• Mentat
  Following the [[Butlerian Jihad]] in the Dune universe's [[back story]], it was forbidden to create man-like machines.
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• Frank Herbert
  ...rt had sold two pulp adventure stories to magazines, and Stuart had sold a story to ''Modern Romance'' magazine. They married in Seattle, Washington on June ...publishers before finally being accepted. One editor prophetically wrote back "''I might be making the mistake of the decade, but...,''" before rejecting
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• Battle of Corrin
  ...of Corrin]]. At the conclusion of the ''Legends of Dune'' series, several story lines started in the previous two novels lead to the political and social c ...Ginjo who betrayed humanity and not Xavier. Abulurd changes his last name back to [[House Harkonnen|Harkonnen]], which is reviled by most in the League. T
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• Dune
  ...net [[Arrakis]], the universe's only source of the [[spice melange]]. In a story that explores the complex interactions of politics, religion, ecology, tech ...es willingly to his demise. The historical basis of this film lies in the story of the Sudanese supposed [[Mahdi]], Muhammad Ahmad, an Islamic messianic fi
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