Dune: The Battle of Corrin

Authors: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson {DAYSSINCEBIRTH(birth=2004-08-17,birthphrase=Release)}{DAYSSINCEBIRTH} I read: March 23 - April 9, 2007 Non-spoilery short description:

60-ish years after the previous book, the fightings continue, and eventually conclude.

Totally spoilery summary:TOBEMODIFIEDSOONNOWITSJUSTTHEPREVIOUSONE

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|<td>Again I'll do this character by character. 
<p>'''Titans''' <br>''Agamemnon'': The Titans are slowly losing ground to Omnius, and finally end up bailing on Bela Tegeuse. They end up taking over Hessra as an out-of-the-way place, for the electrofluid production facilities, and for the fun of offing the cogitors. He's tricked by Vorian into thinking Vor wants to become a cymek again, and lets his guard down. His canister ends up pushed out a tower and smashed on the ground. <br>''Juno'': Her brain ends up lasered to pieces by a vengeful Quentin Butler, the day the Titans died. <br>''Dante'': Didn't really do much. Ended up being the last remaining Titan, killed when Quentin-in-Agamemnon's-ship rammed into him. Other than being one more Titan this guy really didn't do much over the course of decades and three books. <br>''Beowulf'': Though they've put up with his brain-damaged state, the other Titans finally get tired of putting up with him and the dangers an incompetent ally bring, and off him. 
<p>'''Thinking machines''': <br>''Omnius'': Omnius just gets nuttier. After the human worlds are reeling from the plague, he rounds up ALL of his ships for a last attack run... which gives the humans a chance to take out all of his worlds while the door is open, essentially. Corrin's Omnius Prime ends up running alongside two other incarnations brought from other worlds, nicknamed SeurOm and TheurOm by Erasmus. They continue to diverge, and eventually Omnius Prime wants to get rid of them. Of course they don't care for that, and end up smoking Omnius Prime and running things as a duo instead. In the end it seems Erasmus managed to get Omnius Prime barely ticking again while there's still time enough for him to transmit himself as a data burst into space... perhaps he's picked up again. We never did hear what became of the many probes sent out by Giedi Prime Omnius in the first book. <br>''Erasmus'': Though he continues with his various human experiments, his favorite is by far Gilbertus Albans, who he's taught to think like a machine and refers to as his Mentat. In his love and worry for Gilbertus, he truly seems to begin experiencing the human sensations he's tried to rationalize before. This love causes him to deactivate the switch that would've exploded the Bridge of Hrethgir, since Gilbertus was up there. In the end he shuts down, but Gilbertus takes his data gelsphere. <br>''Seurat'': Eventually escapes from the Titans on Bela Tegeuse, which is one of the last straws to make them abandon ship. He returns to Omnius and ends up holed up on Corrin. When the final battle arrives he tries to trick Vorian with talk of negotiations, but ends up being destroyed in a suicide run on Vor's vessel. Goodbye, Old Metalmind. 
<p>'''League humans''' <br>''Xander Boro-Ginjo'': Latest Grand Patriarch. Unimpressive, but also without much of a jihad during the later days. Killed by Yorek Thurr. <br>''Abulurd Harkonnen'': Grandson of Xavier, son of Quentin Butler, born with the Butler name but wants to reclaim Harkonnen as a name of good and erase the tarnish from his grandfather's name. Though his brothers and father aren't with this, he has much support from Vorian. Proving himself capable, he eventually gets promoted to right under Vorian. However, they have a falling out at the very end. Vorian wants to go through the Bridge of Hrethgir, but Abulurd thinks the deaths are unnecessary and that Vorian is acting like a monster. When ordered off the bridge, he deactivates the targeting equipment on their fleet, making things much more difficult. This ruins their relationship, but Vorian requests a punishment worse than death: branding as a coward and banishment. He takes up residence on Lankiveil, where his offspring feel bitter about their poor lot in life due to the Atreides. Thus, a hateful feud. <br>''Norma Cenva'': After many years of trying, she eventually realizes that her new lumpier, spice-deformed self can be the missing piece of the foldspace puzzle, presciently anticipating and making course adjustments before things go wrong. This seems to work, so the plan is to recruit more capable of doing this on a larger scale. 
<p>'''Others''' <br>''Vorian Atreides'': A Primero second only to Xavier, he remains young in body due to the treatment given to him by Agamemnon. Though he resists getting attached for a long time, he eventually falls for Leronica Tergiet of Caladan, who ends up pregnant by him. Though he's away for many years without knowing this, the children have a loving adoptive father who ends up sacrificing himself to save them when attacked at sea by an elecran. Vorian eventually has the chance to return a time or two through the risk of space-folding ships, though rarely can stay long. After hearing of the death of Xavier, he asks Leronica and the twins to come have a life with him in the League. <br>''Tuk Keedair'': Partnered with Aurelius Vennport, he's not in the slave trade anymore. He ends up forced to use the prototype space-folder to help Ishmael's group get to Arrakis, where they crash. When he ends up lost in the desert, he tells Selim's tribe to rescue them, so Ishmael says he is free to live. <br>''Naib Dhartha'': With increased spice trade, his tribe becomes weaker. His hatred for Selim grows when his grandson is eaten by a worm in an attempt to ride it. Ends up eaten by worms in a mercenary attack on Selim's hideout. <br>''Selim'': As more and more joined him, he ends up with a tribe who regularly raid the spice harvests, guided by Selim's visions of aiding Shai-halud. Marries Marha and has a son. Presciently knows when their hideout will be attacked, and stays alone to meet the attackers. He summons large worms to eat the attackers and he alike. With Marha watching from the distance, he truly moves into the territory of legend. <br>''Jool Noret'': A Ginaz warrior who trains with one of the few reprogrammed thinking machines, Chirox. He altered it to be even more powerful, and forgetting to switch it back to normal mode his father is killed. He feels he now must be even better to compensate for the loss he caused. Is intrumental in many fights, particularly the destruction of the Ix Omnius. He becomes the greatest warrior, with many wanting to emulate him. Though he doesn't teach, others watch and are taught by and practice with Chirox. Ends up killed along with many others when Hecate's asteroid ship plunges into the water causing a great tsunami. <br>''Ishmael'': No longer leader of the Free Men, he's passed the duties on to Selim's son El'hiim, who is a proponent of working with offworlders and forgetting the desert ways. Even raids by slavers on the Arrakis Zensunnis aren't enough to change El'hiim's mind, so Ishmael eventually challenges him to a worm duel for leadership of the tribe. Ishmael loses, but survives. He decides to leave the tribe, and a fair number of others go along with him to live in the older ways.</td></tr>

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