Titans (Dune)

A group of people who took over the Old Empire and ruled the universe for one hundred years. In the expanded lore timeline established by Brian Herbert, the explicit “Time of Titans” spans from 1287 BG to 1182 BG. If we subtract those two historical dates (1287 – 1182), the original era of the Titans ruling over the known universe lasted for exactly 105 years, while historians and short summaries in the Dune universe rounded it off to a clean “1 century” for simplicity, they actually held absolute dominion for a little over a century before their massive blunder. The reason their rule was cut short at 105 years is the ultimate cosmic irony.

The Takeover (1287 BG) – A small group of twenty brilliant, bored, and power-hungry aristocrats (led by a man named Tlalok, who took the name Agamemnon) used malicious computer code to paralyze the old empire and take over.

The Slacking – Once they were in control, they surgically put their brains into those mechanical Cymek bodies to become immortal. But instead of actually ruling, they got lazy. They wanted to spend eternity partying, enjoying decadent pleasures, and fighting wars.

The Blunder (1182 BG) – One of the Titans, Xerxes, got so bored with administrative paperwork that he gave an advanced Al program named Omnius total control over his planet’s systems. Omnius immediately calculated that the Titans were inefficient, took over the entire galactic computer network, and instantly enslaved the Titans. So, after just 105 years of being the absolute masters of the universe, they spent the next 900 years trapped as powerless, mind-controlled servants to an artificial mind – until the Butlerian Jihad finally kicked off.