Doug's Sounding Board

This one is fairly strange coming after God Emperor of Dune. 1500 years after Leto, the God-Emperor, dies there is no centralized ruling body for humanity. Conflicts still happen but they are fewer by far. There are powerful bodies but without a government to influence, what is the point of their power? You either get power for the sake of power, or you get power to perform noble causes and try to aid society. The Ixians (machine makers), the Spacing Guild, the Bene Theilax, and the Bene Gesserit are all in it for themselves.

Leto forsaw a famine and then the scattering of people far and wide. It is the scattering that would preserve humans, but now those people are starting to come back to the old empire. One group in particular from there are the Honored Matres. They seem bent on taking over the old empire worlds and gaining control of the spice. They have their own stimulant drug though it’s no spice.

There is a girl who can control the sand worms. After the worm carried a group to a hidden message for the Bene Gesserit I started thinking about the pearl of consciousness orf Leto that was supposed to be locked in each worm. He seems to still be running things, could the worms as a distributed intelligence still be holding everyone on the path Leto saw long ago? Well yes, that got confirmed later. The more the worms get destroyed, the more the path of humans is free from anyone’s control.

The Atriedes bloodline is still playing a big role in the universe. Their ability to not be seen by the prescient is in large demand, and the prescient abilities of the Atriedes are still right beneath the surface. The awakening in one of them is what shows them what needs to be done to attain freedom for the future.

Still no idea why Duncan Idaho is brought back over and over. This one has been grought back with upgraded reflexes though. He’s fast even for that time, but not as fast as Teg becomes.