56 years have passed since the events of the novel “The Machine Crusade”. After the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of Jihad began. Synchronized Worlds and Unaligned Planets are liberated one after another, and finally, after many years of struggle, humanity begins to hope that the end of the centuries-old conflict with thinking machines is just around the corner. However, Omnius still has one last card he hopes to play. In a desperate attempt to destroy humanity, he released a deadly virus that threatens the extinction of entire planets. The outcome of the war, which spanned several generations, will be decided in the Battle of Corrin, the last decisive battle against thinking machines. And on the planet Arrakis, the legendary Fremen will begin the path of severe trials that will turn them into those very desert warriors who, 10 centuries later, marked the beginning of a new Jihad.© The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.