Comment by k__

3 days ago

Yeah, basically.

the immediate cause of the Jihad is the abortion of the healthy fetus of a Bene Gesserit, Jehanne Butler, by an AI."

And which is better explained as two eugenics programs at clashing into each other, both working on dominating the general populace (Bene Gesserit arguably on larger scale than Komos' single-system thing), and Bene Gesserit using their long-worked socio-religious manipulation for revenge that gets out of hand