Seurat (Dune)
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Seurat is a fictional character of the Dune
novels. In the Legends of Dune
prequels of Dune, Seurat was an independent thinking machine who pilots an update ship through the Synchronized Worlds with the help of the son of Titan Agamemnon, Vorian Atreides.
In the Butlerian Jihad
, Seurat delivers his Omnius updates with the help of Vorian Atreides
, a high ranking trustee and son of the Cymek Titan General Agamemnon. Seurat delivers copies of Omnius to each and every world controlled by Omnius. These copies are downloaded into the Omnius system on each planet thus updating them.
Update ships constantly move throughout the Synchronized Worlds keeping the Omnius copies in sync. On several of these trips he is accompanied by Vorian Atreides
where they play several different mentally challenging games in order to train Vorian's mental capacity. Vorian affectionally refers to Seurat as "Old Metalmind." When Vorian defects to the human alliance he disables Seurat and leaves him drifting in space for several decades after taking with him a full copy of the Earth Omnius.
Twenty-five years after being disabled, Seurat awakes and his programming reboots completely. He checks the storage compartment, where he finds the Omnius copy in place, not knowing that Vorian Atreides has modified it with alternate programming and computer viruses. He continues on his update trip towards the rest of the Synchronised Worlds with the tainted Earth Omnius copy. Soon after delivering the updates to the first set of Synchronised Worlds severe malfunctions begin hindering and later threaten the Synchronised Worlds. The planet Bela Tegeuse was hit hardest, while on Corrin, Erasmus was clever enough to minimize the damage.
Seurat was detained by a security detachment of robots sent by Erasmus and the infected copy of Omnius was destroyed. Since Seurat was a victim of deceit, as well as a good pilot, Omnius installed him in a new update ship to make the circuit of the Synchronised Worlds. On one of those missions to the Richese system, the robot captain was attacked and captured by the cymek Agamemnon whom at this time in history had begun their own rebellion against Omnius.
For 56 years, Seurat remained a prisoner of the cymeks until he saw a chance to steal a ship and flee to Bela Tegeuse during an attack by a thinking machine fleet. Again he was given a ship to make update trips to the Synchronised Worlds.
During the great purging that destroyed all the Synchronised Worlds but Corrin, Seurat saved one of two Omnius copies from destruction by the human nuclear storms and brought it to Corrin where it was updated with the Corrin Omnius. Since Corrin is the only Synchronised world left, Seurat had no more missions.
Seurat was apparently destroyed during the Battle at Corrin when he suddenly attacked Vorian Atreides' ship LS Serena Victory after Seurat asked Vorian to turn off his ship's Holtzman shield in order for them to negotiate a peace agreement between the Army of Humanity and the forces of the thinking machines.
Dune universe
Dune is a science fiction franchise which originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Considered by many to be the greatest science fiction novel of all time, Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history...
novels. In the Legends of Dune
Legends of Dune
Legends of Dune is a prequel trilogy of novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe.* Dune: The Butlerian Jihad * Dune: The Machine Crusade * Dune: The Battle of Corrin...
prequels of Dune, Seurat was an independent thinking machine who pilots an update ship through the Synchronized Worlds with the help of the son of Titan Agamemnon, Vorian Atreides.
In the Butlerian Jihad
Butlerian Jihad
The Butlerian Jihad is an event in the back-story of Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. Occurring over 10,000 years before the events chronicled in his 1965 novel Dune, this jihad leads to the outlawing of certain technologies, primarily "thinking machines", a collective term for computers...
, Seurat delivers his Omnius updates with the help of Vorian Atreides
Vorian Atreides
Vorian Atreides is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. The ancestor of Paul Atreides, Vorian is a key character in the Legends of Dune trilogy created by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.-Family history:...
, a high ranking trustee and son of the Cymek Titan General Agamemnon. Seurat delivers copies of Omnius to each and every world controlled by Omnius. These copies are downloaded into the Omnius system on each planet thus updating them.
Update ships constantly move throughout the Synchronized Worlds keeping the Omnius copies in sync. On several of these trips he is accompanied by Vorian Atreides
Vorian Atreides
Vorian Atreides is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. The ancestor of Paul Atreides, Vorian is a key character in the Legends of Dune trilogy created by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.-Family history:...
where they play several different mentally challenging games in order to train Vorian's mental capacity. Vorian affectionally refers to Seurat as "Old Metalmind." When Vorian defects to the human alliance he disables Seurat and leaves him drifting in space for several decades after taking with him a full copy of the Earth Omnius.
Twenty-five years after being disabled, Seurat awakes and his programming reboots completely. He checks the storage compartment, where he finds the Omnius copy in place, not knowing that Vorian Atreides has modified it with alternate programming and computer viruses. He continues on his update trip towards the rest of the Synchronised Worlds with the tainted Earth Omnius copy. Soon after delivering the updates to the first set of Synchronised Worlds severe malfunctions begin hindering and later threaten the Synchronised Worlds. The planet Bela Tegeuse was hit hardest, while on Corrin, Erasmus was clever enough to minimize the damage.
Seurat was detained by a security detachment of robots sent by Erasmus and the infected copy of Omnius was destroyed. Since Seurat was a victim of deceit, as well as a good pilot, Omnius installed him in a new update ship to make the circuit of the Synchronised Worlds. On one of those missions to the Richese system, the robot captain was attacked and captured by the cymek Agamemnon whom at this time in history had begun their own rebellion against Omnius.
For 56 years, Seurat remained a prisoner of the cymeks until he saw a chance to steal a ship and flee to Bela Tegeuse during an attack by a thinking machine fleet. Again he was given a ship to make update trips to the Synchronised Worlds.
During the great purging that destroyed all the Synchronised Worlds but Corrin, Seurat saved one of two Omnius copies from destruction by the human nuclear storms and brought it to Corrin where it was updated with the Corrin Omnius. Since Corrin is the only Synchronised world left, Seurat had no more missions.
Seurat was apparently destroyed during the Battle at Corrin when he suddenly attacked Vorian Atreides' ship LS Serena Victory after Seurat asked Vorian to turn off his ship's Holtzman shield in order for them to negotiate a peace agreement between the Army of Humanity and the forces of the thinking machines.