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 |<td>Again I'll do this character by character.
-<p>'''Titans''' <br>''Agamemnon'': Finally ends up rebelling against Omnius, turning things into a 3-way battle. <br>''Juno'': When the Titans take over an Omnius planet, she convinces the human slaves to be loyal to the Titans, and increases their neo-cymek ranks. <br>''Hecate'': Returned in a bigass asteroid ship. She wanted to take on the Titans, and thus partnered up with Iblis Ginjo. She saved the day for the League at Ix, and destroyed the Bela Tegeuse Omnius, but before the League could get there the Titans took it as their new base. She saved Aurelius Venport and Zufa Cenva from a neo-cymek attack, but before she could make her allegiances clear Zufa used her abilities to fry their brains. <br>''Dante'': Didn't really do much. <br>''Xerxes'': Got himself killed by Norma Cenva. <br>''Beowulf'': Neo-cymek who was basically accepted as a new Titan, the first of the neo-cymeks to join their plans against Omnius. A bit of a Barbarossa replacement in programming talent. Got bashed up a bit by Hecate, so his brain isn't what it used to be.
+<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'': Continued being Omnius. Fell prey to a sneaky trick by Vorian Atreides that essentially spread flawed programming by way of the long-lost Earth Omnius update, wreaking havoc for a while. Now with the Titans picking off many update ships, the various Omnius incarnations aren't as synchronized. <br>''Erasmus'': When the Earth Omnius update screwed things up, he took initiative in getting things back to normal, and also took advantage of the situation to make sure Omnius didn't keep so many of the Earth update's memories, such as those of how Erasmus was largely responsible for the Earth revolt. As part of a challenge from Omnius, he decided to &quot;tame&quot; an unruly slave, a boy named Gilbertus Albans who he eventually comes to think of as a son. <br>''Seurat'': Vorian wakes him back up after leaving him with the altered Earth Omnius update. Seurat tries to deliver it from world to world with such haste that he's gone by the time things mess up. Later meets Vorian in deep space, but neither fires on the other; he still feels a friendship. Later, in an Omnius update raid, Agamemnon takes Seurat prisoner rather than destroy him, as his knowledge of Vorian could come in useful.
+<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>'''Slaves''' <br>''Ishmael'': Still a slave, but ends up a family man and a spiritual leader. Still basically pacifist, when Aliid begins a revolt, Ishmael and the group of slaves he's currently in (without his wife and one of two daughters) steals the space-folding ship they've been working on, with Tuk Keedair to pilot it. They crash on Arrakis, and eventually the survivors get taken in by Selim's tribe. Ishmael ends up the new leader, and marrying Selim's widow. The group becomes known as the Free Men of Arrakis. <br>''Aliid'': Still a slave, but ends up a family man for a short time until separated from his wife and child. Very angry and very bitter, he eventually starts another revolt on the anniversary of Bel Moulay's. Inadvertently destroys most of Starda when he uses a laser rifle to shoot a Holtzman shield (worn by Holtzman himself).