Think you know about the Great Schools, do you? About the Bene Gesserit, Mentats, the Suk School, and the Ginaz Academy... But did you know we have the Thinking Machines to thank for them?
Quit gasping. It’s true! You must remember that in the chaos following the Great Revolt, the Landsraad was in its infancy—like a flickering candle that the slightest breeze could snuff out. There were grudges, betrayals, and factional divisions...
Well, not much has changed. The point is, this fragile political body had to rebuild an empire—a monumental task! Especially with the Butlerian Proscriptions forbidding all technology. Indeed, the only way forward was to explore new avenues of human understanding and unlock humanity’s potential.
Thus, a new golden age emerged as this new expanded thought produced the Great Schools as they would come to be known. And it was all because a genocidal artificial intelligence tried to conquer the universe...