Jihad Butlérien

The Jihad Butlérien is an episode of the fictitious universe of Dune created by Frank Herbert.

This war called of the wishes of Serena Butler put an end to supremacy computers and ended in their pure and simple prohibition: all the .analyses of data are carried out by specialized individuals, the mentats.

Its principal command, which appears in the Orange Catholic Bible, lays out that You will not make a machine with the spirit of the similar Man .

Principal figures of Jihad Butlérien

Serena Butler : girl of the Viceroy of the League Manion Butler, mother of Manion the Innocent one and Large Priestess of Jihad. It is the heart of the fight against the Machines.

Vorian Atréides : wire of the Titan Agamemnon, it rejoined the human cause. General and genious strategist without similar, it is the craftsman of the final victory against Omnius.

Xavier Harkonnen: father of Manion the Innocent one, it is with Vorian Atréides the best strategist and soldier of the League. Better friend of Vorian Atréides, it died while launching his vessel on a sun to kill Iblis Ginjo and to put an end to his embezzlements and his practices honnies.

Iblis Ginjo : Foreman of slaves on the Earth, it is him which launches the revolt of the slaves. HE will be then Grand Patriarch of the Jihad, engrossing little by little all the capacities by the means of the Jipol, the police force of Jihad. Its personality is ambiguous, its fidelity with the human cause not being able to be called into question, but the means used to make triumph Jihad were often extreme, going until killing out of the Men and to assassinate Serena Butler to give a second breath to Jihad.

Manion Butler : Viceroy of the League of Noble the. Father of Serena Butler.

Quentin Butler: human, large general warlike. Son-in-law of Xavier Harkonnen.

Faykan Butler : wire of Quentin. Last viceroy of the League, and first emperor. He founded the Maison Corrino

Abulurd Harkonnen : brother of Faykan Butler. It took the name of Harkonnen to wash the memory of Xavier, wrongfully honnie. Its cowardice with the Bataille of Corrin was worth to him to be struck of ostracism and must be exiled on Lankiveil.

Tio Holtzman : scientist and inventor.

Normalized Cenva: Assistant of Tio Holtzman, it developed the engines able to fold space. She is first Navigatrice.

Aurelius Venport : husband of Normalized Cenva. Businessman, director of the company Venkee, which precedes the space Guilde. It is with him and its associate Tuk Keedair that one owes the marketing of the Épice.

Raquella Berto-Anirul : founder of the Community of the Sisters Bucket Gesserit.

Jool Noret : fencing master of Ginaz.

Gilbertus Alban : slave raised by the robot Érasme and first Mentat.

Mohandas Suk : military surgeon, founder of the School Suk.

Selim : inhabitant of the desert of Arrakis. First Chevaucheur of the Worms of Sands. IT is at the origin of the culture Fremen.

Ishmaël : slave of Poritrin. He managed to escape on Arrakis. Successor of Selim, he is the founder of the community Fremen.

Omnius : suresprit of the Machines. Enemy of Humanity.

Érasme : robot with the independent personality. It killed Manion the Innocent one. One of the most dangerous machines, because capable of ruser and to lie.

Agamemnon : general of the Titans, these human become machines. He is useful against his liking Omnius, and will betray it as soon as he can. He will be killed by his son Vorian Atréides.

Junon, Dante, Barberousse, Xerxès, Ajax: Titans subordinates in Agamemnon.

This event could be named in reference to Samuel Butler, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, which, after the publication of the Origin of the species , wrote this in 1863:

What would arrive if technology continued to progress more quickly than the evolution of the vegetable kingdoms and animal? Would it replace us with the orders of the Earth? As the vegetable kingdom was slowly built starting from minerals, and that the animal kingdom is, built to him starting from the vegetable kingdom, a new reign abruptly emerged these last years, reigns that we see during his prehistoric time… At each day which passes, we give him more and more capacity and means of self-checking, which will be possibly the equivalent of our intellect.

See too

The cycle Dune, the Genesis , made up of the three volumes the War of the machines , Jihad Butlérien , the Battle of Corrin .

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