With a world as expansive and richly layered as that of Frank Herbert‘s Dune, it’s no wonder there are a multitude of major people, places, historical moments and overtures that could be committed to on-screen storytelling. One such major moment in time referenced but never seen in the Dune films is the war against thinking machines that nearly wiped out all of humanity. But thanks to the new prequel series, Dune: Prophecy, we’ll finally get a glimpse into the war known as the Butlerian Jihad.