"Dune: The Faces of A Martyr"
- By Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Published September 2005 in the collection The Road to Dune; first released online in 2004 prior to the release of the third Legends of Dune novel, Dune: The Battle of Corrin)
Leaders Xavier Harkonnen, Iblis Ginjo and Serena Butler are dead by the time of "Dune: The Faces of a Martyr", but still the Butlerian Jihad continues. The Army of the Jihad attack the Tlulaxa homeworld as vengeance for their actions in The Machine Crusade, but one scientist escapes to thinking machine territory. There he offers his services to the evermind Omnius, and sets about creating a clone of Serena. Meanwhile, in the League of Nobles, Vorian Atreides attempts to combat the slurs on Xavier's name by confronting Ginjo's wife.
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