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[–] 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

No. The Butlerian Jihad is somewhere around 10,000 AD, the first book is somewhere around 20k~25k AD.

Also, in my headcannon Dune and 40k are the same universe and the story of Paul Atreades is how the god emperor came to be.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I was only off by 10,000 years!

    I've noticed a lot of carried over themes in 40k, with the cautionary tale of rogue AI making computers untrusted and stuff like that. What I didn't expect is how much the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia movie seemed to influence the first Dune book. That might be a stretch since the movie came out just a year before he started releasing Dune content, but a lot of that fit.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    I mean... Lawrence of Arabia was a real person and his story was quite well known. Written into a biographical account in 1926.

    It's not a far stretch to think Herbert was inspired by those stories as well as those of the desert rats and fighting forces in the Africa campaigns of WW2, Conrad's heart of darkness and well... Yeah everything in human history up to that point.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Yeah that would roughly align with the early days of the DAoT in 40k. But I'm pretty sure I'm Dune Earth is effectively destroyed and then turned into an international park, isn't it?

    EDIT: that might be from the Dune Encyclopedia rather than Dune itself, idk.

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