88 BG
From Dune
- Slavers begin to harass the Arrakis Zensunni settlements.
- Quentin Butler is captured by the Titans.
- Norma Cenva discovers that spacefolders can be safely navigated with prescience enabled by melange.
- A plague of mutated Omnius Scourge breaks out on Rossak. Raquella Berto-Anirul and Mohandas Suk travel to fight the Epidemic.
- Supported by the Cult of Serena, Interim Viceroy Faykan Butler declares himself Viceroy, and installs a law that prohibits the production of machines functioning like the human mind.
- Yorek Thurr kills Grand Patriarch Xander Boro-Ginjo.
- The Cult of Serena starts to destroy machines on Salusa Secundus. Vidad is killed in the riots.
- Abulurd Harkonnen kills Yorek Thurr.
- Ticia Cenva commits suicide.
- Vorian Atreides and Quentin Butler kill Juno, Agamemnon and Dante. Death of Quentin Butler.
- Chirox is destroyed.
- The League of Nobles launches an ultimate attack against Corrin. Using the planet’s slaves, Omnius draws a Bridge of Hrethgir around the planet to stop the human fleet. In spite of the moral dilemma Supreme Bashar Vorian Atreides launches the attack. Abulurd Harkonnen tries to sabotate the attack.
- During the battle, Corrin-Omnius broadcasts a copy of itself into space. Humanity destroys the last incarnations of Omnius and the last of the thinking machines. Gilbertus Albans saves the brain of Erasmus from the machine holocaust.
- Adrien Venport founds Foldspace Shipping Company; the spacefolders are navigated by prescience enabled by melange.
- 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.
- 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 Sorceresses who survived the Rossak Epidemic. The order, which later takes the name Bene Gesserit, pledges to preserve mankind’s genetic heritage.
- Ishmael and a group of Zensunni harassed by slavers move to the deep desert of Arrakis. The Zensunni Wanderers adapting to the harsh lifestyle will during the next centuries become the Fremen people (Free Men of Arrakis). El’hiim and his followers slowly merge with the townfolk of the North Pole of Arrakis.
