title: The Butlerian Jihad : Legends of Dune
author:  Brian Herbert 
description: It began in the Time of Tyrants, when ambitious men and women used high-powered computers to seize control of the heart of the Old Empire including Earth itself. The tyrants translated their brains into mobile mechanical bodies and created a new race, the immortal man-machine hybrids called cymeks. Then the cymeks' world-controlling planetary computers - each known as Omnius - seized control from their overlords and a thousand years of brutal rule by the thinking machines began. But their world faces disaster. Impatient with human beings' endless disobedience and the cymeks' continual plotting to regain their power, Omnius has decided that it no longer needs them. Only victory can save the human race from extermination.
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  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Begin Reading](9780765301574_ch01.html#ch01)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Glossary of the Butlerian Jihad](9780765301574_bm01.html#bm01)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Major Planets](9780765301574_bm02.html#bm02)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](9780765301574_ack01.html#ack01)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Princess Irulan writes:
  
  
  Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of
  where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tragedies.
  
  
  Before one can understand Muad’Dib or the current jihad that followed the
  overthrow of my father, Emperor Shaddam IV, one must understand what we fight
  against. Therefore, look more than ten thousand years into our past, ten
  millennia before the birth of Paul Atreides.
  
  
  It is there that we see the founding of the Imperium, how an emperor rose from
  the ashes of the Battle of Corrin to unify the bruised remnants of humanity.
  We will delve into the most ancient records, into the very myths of Dune, into
  the time of 