Emperor: Battle for Dune - The Story So Far

Full-Motion cutscene from Westwood Studio's Emperor: Battle For Dune.

Shaddam Corrino IV had no heirs. When Lady Elara poisoned him on orders from her superiors, the power vaccuum forced the hand of the three most powerful Houses in the Imperium. Noble House Atreides. Insidious House Ordos. Evil House Harkonnen. The one House who can take control of Arrakis, will be elevated to the ruling House of the entire Imperium.

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[sourcemaster]

I thought spice was mainly sought after for space travel instead for drug use?

[smithdanger]

That too...uh...yeah, I forgot about that...

[agent47crows]

And hence they have the weird blue eyes, yea, thanks!

[smithdanger]

Bingo!

[agent47crows]

So, what do they mean by "spice"? Drug addicts... :p

Question : Is this a video game?

[smithdanger]

The Spice is a kind of drug that opens your awareness, lengthens your life, and is so addicting that if you try to break away from it you'll die. That's how you get entire planets hooked. Problem is, that it's only found on one backwater planet. And yeah, this is a video game based off of Frank Herbert's book series which started off with "Dune." More specifically, it's based off of David Lynch's film which was based off of Frank Herbert's "Dune."

[AlaricRose]

Interesting alternate timeline. In the books, Shaddam had four daughters. Paul Atreides marries the oldest (Irulan) after wiping out the Harkonnen and becomes the new emperor. Shaddam isn't assassinated, but rather Paul sends him into exile. Tends to happen when the Sardaukar are crushed by the Fremen who believe that Paul is the Messiah.

[jmm1233]

Thankyou WestWood

[terdfurgason]

She shouldve ending with "the spice must flow."

[Pierzakowo]

The situation must be really bad if someone's attacking a Guild heighliner...

[MrMatto91]

New guy flying the carry-all?

[makemap]

@smithdanger If Ordos are machine, why do they need it?

[Evilmonkey66699]

@SantomPh actually Westwood much like Origin systems were dissolved by EA(who did purchase them) some years ago after they ran the companies into the ground via corporate stupidity. Truly a senseless waste of two great companies who would of had if EA left them to their own devices would of made them millions in the long run as opposed to thousands or hundreds in the short term and complete destruction of the companies and absorption of the copyrights of their games which they never use.

[Hosea22]

Does this video, or the one called "Emperor: Battle for Dune - Introduction" come up first in the video game?

[dawsonoo7]

who ever controls my ass, controls the farts and who controls the farts, controls the lives of every being in the universe 

[isaimon]

1:05 to 1:17 is a part from DUNE 2000 intro :)

[toomanyaccounts]

@SantomPh

They also take place way after the Dune series or way before if you mean the thinking machines.

House Ordos was mentioned in the Dune Encyclopedia which was published in 1984.

If you do a google search for dune wiki and then go to it and look up the dune encyclopedia you will get more info.