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As the 1984 film inspired many of the visual elements of several of the Dune video games, the appearance and costuming of Emperor Frederick Corrino IV from the games Dune II and Dune 2000 strongly resembles the José Ferrer representation from Lynch's Dune. In the storyline, the Emperor puts the three Great Houses of the Landsraad — the Atreides, the Harkonnens and the Ordos — in a war for the supremacy of Arrakis. In the end, the Emperor is murdered by the Bene Gesserit Sister Lady Elara.
In a bid for the Sardaukar's support in the War of Assassins during the period of Emperor: Battle for Dune, the Ordos create a ghola of the now-deceased Frederick Corrino IV using genetic samples smuggled directly from the Imperial Capital, Kaitain. Through mass propaganda, they intend to convince the Imperium that the Emperor had escaped; once Ordos controls Dune, everything will be as it was before the War began, with the Ordos Executrix as the true leaders behind the puppet Emperor, an Illuminati per se. (In a minor continuity error, the Ordos mentat explicitly refers to the Emperor as Shaddam IV—not Frederick—during the ending movie for that campaign.)
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“What, then, is the basic difference between today’s computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to see but not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern—a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”
—Rudolf Arnheim (b. 1904)
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