In the Dune Universe, the 9th planet in the Alkalurops, star systems was known as IX. The Ixians not only lived on the edge of the human empire, they operated in ways which pushed the limits of the universal ban on thinking machine intelligence. After the Machine Crusade, the Butlerian Jihad which violently expunged all computing technology, it was agreed during the Great Convention that the violation of the ban on thinking machines would result in execution. Still, the Ixians were not subjugated in the empire, Ixian technology was widely acknowledged to be the best so they were allowed to exist and a blind eye was turned as long as they did not go too far. According to the appendix of Dune, Ix along with the planet Richese had escaped the more severe effect of the Buterlian Jihad and remained strongholds of machine technology. Machine culture permeated Ixian society and this only seemed to increase during the time of the god emperor and after it. The God Emperor, Leto II acknowledged the dangers of Ixians invention; he tolerated them for reasons which they themselves struggled to understand.

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