How Emp fits in the Dune timeline

[Dunenewt]

I don't know if this has been posted before but I found this on a website:

Set a couple centuries before the movie Dune and just after the end of the Dune II game, Emperor centers its plot around the three warring factions Atreides, Harkonnen, and Ordos.

Is this right?

[GhostHunter]

No, Ordos was never even mentioned out of D.E. Emperor itself is just a sorta freestyled Dune.

[Dunenewt]

Many houses aren't mentioned outside the DE doesn't mean they don't exist. WW used the DE to make their Dune films. I think Ordos is still a proper house. The only thing that messes up Emperor for me is the shields on arrakis.

[GhostHunter]

House Corrino fell due to Paul, not the killing of the Emperor. And Ordos wasn't a House Major so even though they would never have three Houses battle for Arrakis even if they did Ordos wouldn't be part of the battle, nor the Atreides.

[Dunenewt]

In the DE it isn't stated whether Ordos is a House Major is it?

I think you might be right though because I think there was a list of all the major houses.

[GhostHunter]

Yes, they were a House Minor, not a Major. (Read that in Duniverse sometime back).

And there are a bunch of things that don't fit that are in Emperor that wouldn't work in the novels.

[Apollyon]

Well if they were a minor house then they were exorbitantly rich for one lol. I think they're something like 7th richest of all the lansraad, but then I'm no expert.

[Dunenewt]

They didn't have much of a military as they didn't trust their Generals from what I remember so almost all of their army is mercenary

[Timenn]

I don't see why you should have to fit Emperor in a specefic part of the Dune timeline. Can't you just accept that Emperor is playing in a copy of the Frank Herbert's Duniverse. And that copy has certain differences with the original timeline.

[Dunenewt]

I was just posting what I found on the website.

[Timenn]

It wasn't meant to you specifically. But more to the group of people that tries to place Emperor in a specefic time.

[Dunenewt]

It's a kind of alternate Dune like the DE is on which the games are based.

[Gobalopper]

Emperor is not really based on the books at all. Remember that the game is based off of the movie character wise and the rest is just made up. As for the Ordos it is pretty much all made up by Westwood because there is basically no info other then the name and logo in the DE.

[Dunenewt]

And the Ordos logo in Dune II is in fact the House Wallach logo.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

And ordos is a Great House. Not a minor house. that is at least what the de says.

emperor can't be set to a date a little before dune, since the emperor lives in Dune can it?  I think the result of Emperor if we were to follow the real dune time line, would be harkonnen victory. Atreides and Ordos have never got the task of harvesting spice on dune before Dune.