Actually, if you look into the lore, the original plan the Bene Gesserits had for their breeding program was for Lady Jessica to have a daughter with Duke Leto. The daughter, when she came of age, would have been married to Feyd Ruatha to bring peace between the Atreides and Harkkonen families, and their child was supposed to be the Kwisatz Haderach.
Lady Jessica messed that up because she chose to disobey and have a son instead, gave birth to the Kwisatz Haderach early, and waited until it was way too late, and then have a daughter long after one could have been married off to Feyd (although to be fair, I wouldn't want to send any women to that planet, after seeing how horrible life is on Geidi Prime or in the Harkkonen court).
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DoubleRD77 (77)
a month ago
In the books, Feyd was not bad at first. It was when the Baron took an interest and brought him to his court to raise him is when he was corrupted. He still might have been an effective emperor. I am sure most of the empire would have preferred that, and there would have been less conflict. Ultimately in the long run, they would all have been doomed with the return of the machines without Paul winning and the God Emperor to follow, and create the Golden Path.
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AmeriGirl26 (12366)
a month ago
I'm afraid he would have made a terrible emperor, and I'm glad Paul killed him.
Although that does make sense with the Golden Path, now that I think about it. It never occurred to me that people might remake the AI machines and bring about a second Bulterian Jihad that would destroy humanity forever. No wonder Paul and Leto II did the things they did.
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DoubleRD77 (77)
a month ago
Machines had survived from the original war and fled to the far reaches of space, and began rebuilding.
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