The war against the machines lasted for 100 years but how they got there – and even what constitutes a “thinking machine” – isn’t really explained.

The war against the thinking machines united the Great Houses against a common foe. Valya Harkonnen reveals in the early scenes of Dune: Prophecy that while an Atredies soldier was credited for ...

Dune Prophecy Machine War. In "Dune: Prophecy's" first episode, we leap back roughly 116 years earlier to witness a "Terminator"-like segment of that century-long Machine War for the very first time.

The war culminated in a systematic obliteration of all iterations of machine-based technology, AI computers, Thinking Machines, or sentient androids, and a complete reboot towards a more human ...