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Adoption of “god emperor” for Trump is a notably example.

https://twitter.com/Toph_MaGoph/status/1094416691092688896/p...

Definitely 40K fans who made it :).

Ah, of course. Because people using that literally deify Trump, believing he's a 3.5 kiloyear old being that exists because of a human merging with the larvae of a deified sand worm.

In WH40k, it was prehistoric shamans from all over the world noticing their souls were being eaten by demons and preventing reincarnation, so they all kill themselves at the same time, merge their souls in the warp, and reincarnate as a single super human.

Wrong universe ... no sandworms :).

It looks like God Emperor of Dune came out in 1981, and given that's its GW, I assume someone involved had read it.

Yep they were certainly inspired by a lot of it.

Thinking machines rebellion became the Dark Age of Technology.

No form of AI allowed - no mentats but workarounds such as servitors and machine spirits.

The Tleilaxu/Space Guild became the Mechanicum of Mars - they control all the technology.

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