Dune: The Scattering & Leto's 'Great Enemy'

Leto Atreides the Second, known to the universe as The God Emperor, ruled over all of mankind from 10205 AG to 13724 AG. Throughout his 3,000 year rule, Leto had oppressed mankind. In his totalitarian regime, travel between planets was prohibited for the vast majority of the imperial inhabitants. Throughout the empire, the people lived in similar homes and lived similar lives. There was no progress and people were not free to seek out their own desires as they had once been. They had peace, or at least the sense of it, but no liberty.

When Leto II died so did his empire. Humanity was plunged into the famine times. For so long men had relied upon the God Emperor for all of their needs. In this time the natural resources of many planets were plundered, technologies dismantled and repurposed. The scarcity during these times lead to a lot of human suffering but for the first time in millennia, mankind was free to choose its own destiny. Mankind was also wary of another Emperor such as Leto II the tyrant. As a result of the famine times and the fear of another Tyrant. They looked to the stars, many chose to flee the old Empire into the far reaches of space.

Thanks for watching!

Feel free to leave a comment like and subscribe!

Thanks For Watching!

[mackd]

The weird thing about leaving thousands of years worth of journals is that no one person could ever read/watch them all. There is more knowledge in Leto than a person has lifespan to experience.

[chaz]

I’m still amazed at the balls Leto had he knew all of mankind would hate him but he made that sacrifice in order to save them it’s such a great idea.

[Nftvrqr]

I feel like the most overlooked effect of the God Worms rule is the fact he made them less reliant on a single source of spice for space travel, creation of a synthetic ultimately unties the bonds to dune and the Empire of old

[luciferangelica]

oh, if only old frank had lived a bit longer, the places he may have taken us

[hansofaxalia]

It’s really sad, Leto could relive the memories of any human before him. He could have placed himself as the greatest ruler humanity had ever seen, but had to make himself a tyrant to preserve humanity in the long run

[duncanidaho]

The scattering is a goldmine for artists and designers, and even writers, it´s the Dune plotline with more mystery and possibilities. An awesome way to turn the screw on what was alreeady a masterfully tied universe.

[andrewpandrew]

The beginning of this sounds like they lived in the Imperium of Man, which makes sense since Dune inspired much of 40k.

[thaheeraalthaf]

The more I learn about Leto, the greater my respect grows for him.

[torg]

Leto only needed to send some No Ship style Highligners as colony ships. It could cut off prescience tracking, allowing entire branches of humanity to never be found.

[Ensign_Cthulhu]

The enemy as I saw it was a self-aware Hunter-Seeker, the assumption being that if it attained prescience, no human could ever hide from it. If you ignore the Brian Herbert novels, The Honored Matres seem to have fled back into the Empire to escape Scattered Tleilaxu. "Would you return defenceless to face the Ones of Many Faces? Would you become vegetables?"

[acloseuppictureofacat]

I just started Dune for the first time and credit this channel with making that happen. I'm already 7 hours into the audiobook and loving it. Can't wait to get into this Leto material later on!

[rogerfurlong]

I always thought Siona's visions of the 'hunter seekers' implied the Machines.

[stringstorm]

The great enemy is so terrifying and powerful that the only thing they could do was to either flee or hide.

[RapidCityJM]

I always thought the 'Great Enemy' that Leto was talking about was the 'predator' to our 'prey, ' a constant pressure that encourages humanity to become faster, stronger, more versatile thru evolution. For instance, the Bene Gesserit control most of the Old Empire, but they were overthrown by the Honored Matres, who in turn were fleeing an even more powerful enemy. Each of them were prey to others, each were predator to others, and that required them to grow and change. When you look at the whole original series, in Dune there is all these different people but they only do one thing: Mentats, Face Dancers, Bene Gesserit, swordmasters etc. Like different breeds of dogs, bred for a purpose. But in Heretics you have Ixians, different Bene Gesserit, Bene Tleilax, all jockeying for position and being confronted by new rivals, much more like different packs of wild animals. God-Emperor always struck me as more meta, more about the ideas of evolution and strength thru growth thru adversity, that's why I never really considered the series to have a 'missing' book. The expanded books with the artificial intelligence just didn't seem to resonate with the scale of epic that the original did. Chapterhouse ended perfectly for me, some things got resolved, others didn't, but it was just a small window on a time after Leto, it was never meant to be a complete story just a chapter in an eternal one.

[Dgoc]

Dune is one of my favorite universes with the craziest lore of all time, I love these videos!

[dethcon]

Leto's Ghost: "All according to keikaku..."

[victor.pavelescu]

God Emperor of Dune - my favorite book of the saga. I read it periodically.

[MondayNightShitpost]

i seriously appreciate all the work you put into this! ive been inspired to finish reading the original 6 books! i only got so far as to finish children of dune when i read them 15 years ago. i decided to re read the original trilogy and im so glad i did, what a different perspective i have reading it as an adult rather than a teenager. still impactful as ever. i was crying when the children of dune were born . thank you so much!

[Blake-rmc]

This was....extremely well spoken. I knew everything said, but I enjoy hearing it summarised.
Great video

[njmanga]

He played the long game and use human psychology to force them to migrate and evolve such genius