Full Timeline of the Dune Universe (34,000 Years)

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[Music] though the expanded dune universe by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson offers some contradicting dates and accounts to the Dune encyclopedia the encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive timeline of the Dune universe though in the original Frank Herbert doom books earth is lost in the midst of time the encyclopedia offers states stretching all the way from humanity's early beginnings on earth to a few thousand years after the death of the god emperor Leto ii up until the in universe publication of the encyclopedia itself in 1540 AG the encyclopedia dates the earliest civilizations on earth or tera as somewhere around 19,000 BG this is not an exact date because it was far too long ago to measure precisely this would be around to 800 BC using real-world measurements of time the Dune encyclopedia dates the rise and fall of the Roman Empire as somewhere in between 16400 B G and 16,000 B G this is somewhat relevant because the Atreides can trace their ancestry back to Rome 1900 standard years later in 14100 the colonization of the solar system begins it was known as the little diaspora the word diaspora refers to a scattered population the word in the real world is most commonly associated with the jewish expulsion from israel which was called the jewish diaspora over the course of the next 500 standard years the population of earth decreased by approximately 2,000 percent one of the first planets colonized during the Diaspora was Cerys and when earth was struck by an asteroid in 13 402 b g series became the imperial capital 400 years later terror was receded and declared a natural park by the current reigning emperor by 12200 BG humanity had expanded to ten more interstellar colonies ruled by a single emperor though communication between worlds was difficult in those times a millennia later humanity had entered what was known as the Empire of a thousand worlds this may have literally referred to a thousand planets however it is also possible that it merely referred to a large number of planets in this time imperial power was far too sparse to claim supremacy over the entire interstellar confederation it was an empire only in name by eleven 105 B G a rebellion had destroyed the seat of imperial power on the planet Ceres this was the beginning of what the encyclopaedia calls the Age of pretenders eventually many smaller empires would emerge and many Emperor's during the great Dark Ages which was also known as the age of ten thousand in brewer's this age would last nearly 4000 years seeing the thinker's rebellion of 7600 b gene and the birth of Ibrahim von Holtzman in seventy-five 93 BG who the Encyclopedia credits as the discoverer of the holtzman effect the dark ages ended when Holtzman demonstrated the Holtzman effect and revealed his discoveries the Holtzman effect provided a means of instant communication between worlds his theories would also lead to the invention of the Holtzman Drive would provide it faster than light space travel for the next 2500 standard years after the discovery of the Holtzman effect the Wars of reunification were waged until finally latus lost the great United mankind into a single Empire starting what was called the first Golden Age sometime during this age sand trout were first brought to the men wet planet Arrakis the years 1800 BG through 200 BG saw the rise and fall of the second Golden Age and the beginning of the but Larian jihad when a crusade was led against all thinking machines in the Imperium by 108 BG the last thinking machine was destroyed in 88 BG during the Battle of Corinne sardick our soldier Demetrios Atreides assumed command of the vessel luta after the senior officers had all perished because of his actions here he was named Baron of the planet Tantalus by Emperor Shu set the first pedasi emperor whose house would later change its name from Causton to Kirino after the planet quarantine in 84 BG the abilities of the spice melange to aid in space travel was discovered in 5bg chome company is founded and by the Year Zero the Imperial seat the spacing guild and chome company which contained the lands rad the Great Houses of the Imperium joined together to form the Imperium as we know it to be every year after this contains the epic AG meaning after guild as opposed to BG meaning before guilt over the next 10,000 years nearly 300 Emperor's would sit the Imperial seat the Year 1234 saw the formation of the order of mint at by Gilbert of Alban a famous philosopher and logician it began on the planet Septimus and in 1244 the order of mint had moved to the planet clay lacks in 3367 AG the Empire saw the first instance of a war of assassins when house our Conan feuded with house party a war of assassins his warfare of a limited nature which involved the use of professional assassins among rival and Great Houses of the landsraad and 6,600 AG as in suni sayyidina on the planet rossik discovered a plant which had properties which allowed it to unlock in her lives she becomes the first wild Reverend Mother by 71 93 all of the Zen Sunni Wanderers who had later become the Fremen had arrived on Arrakis in 86 77 AG Paulus Atreides the sixteenth moved his entire family from the planet Gallatin to the Paradise world of Caledon which was granted to the House by Emperor Elle viii in 101 40 AG late to a trade is the first is born and in 101 56 AG Shaddam the forth becomes emperor of the Imperium Paul Atreides was born in 101 75 AG and in the year 100 198 G House Atreides gained the fiefdom over the planet Arrakis Oh some known as doom by 101 93 AG Hall Atreides had gained control of the Imperium through his control of the spice melange by 101 96 AG the jihad had begun Paul's Freeman spread throughout the galaxy the Freeman who had once fled subjugation now oppressed billions and 102 19 AG the reign of the God Emperor later ii began he ruled for 3,500 years and died in the year 13 724 AG according to the encyclopedia but 13 728 AG according to the original saga in 14 702 AG what was thought to be the first evidence of non-human biological intelligent life-forms was discovered on the planet Crumpton they had detected ruins on the planet surface by use of a low altitude satellite a ground crew was dispatched but they discovered no remaining intelligent life the spacing guild was certain that no human had ever set foot on the planet beforehand and the ruins were thought to be between three and five thousand years old later however the idea of alien intelligence was debunked when it became clear that this was more likely a no room created by late to the second though they still had no idea why or when he built it in 15200 AG some of those who fled the famine times into the scattering after the death of the worm God Emperor began to return to the old Empire among them were the honored ma trace in the year 15 525 the god emperors journals are discovered he had recorded them his record of his life and his accounts of his inner lives unruhe Dooley and crystals hidden on Arrakis he had left them there to be discovered by humanity at a future date the full timeline of the Dune universe according to the encyclopedia spans over roughly thirty four thousand years by the end of it all humanity has spread to the very furthest reaches of space no single human could ever catalog all of humanity at this point and no one can say what each of their individual experiences might entail if you enjoyed this video please consider supporting this channel on patreon link in the description I'd like to take this time to thank some of my very best patrons mostly Trini girl and Cher Valentine my top patrons and also Ivan slaughter claudia young sean Lorenzen vanessa green the ghost of raymond red beard robbing laundry Mara Chris Zoe Zhang Dominique Maldonado Joe Iverson and Cara Jane thank you all so much [Music] you
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Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)
Published: Wed Dec 19 2018
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