The year of the culminatory battle between humankind and thinking machines, which some predicted and called Kralizec. In that year, on Synchrony: * The no-ship, the Ithaca, was captured by the Thinking Machine ruler, Omnius, and forced down to the surface of the planet. * The ghola of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen killed the ghola of Alia Atreides, as she exited the Ithaca. * A duel to the death took place between the gholas of Paul Atreides, one raised on the Ithaca by the ghola of Duncan Idaho and Sheeana Brugh; and one raised by Harkonnen on Dan. The duel was to see who was the Ultimate Kwisatz Haderach, whom Erasmus, Ominus' assistant, believed was on the Ithaca. The duel occurred in the Cathedral. * Paolo won the duel, overdosed on the super-potent melange ultraspice, and wen