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However, some projections can be made, based upon the known locations of stars, and basic Dune history. The human race
began on Old Earth, and colonized numerous worlds around other stars. These ranged from nearby stars within 20 light years, to
several stars 100-200 light-years away from Earth, and the furthest known colonized star of the Imperium, Beta Lyncis, which
was 410 light-years away. However, even Beta Lyncis (and its planet Ishia) is well within the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Also, it seems that the Old Imperium remained centered on the general region of Earth - consider that the Atreides and
Harkonnen homeworlds, Caladan and Geidi Prime, were each about 20 light years from Old Earth respectively. Assuming that
the Dune series takes place in the Milky Way Galaxy, it can be clearly surmised that the Old Imperium remained situated in the
Orion Arm (even though Frank Herbert calls it a "multigalactic empire"). Taking Frank Herbert's words into account, it is possible
that the Imperium extended outside of this region of the Milky Way Galaxy, encompassing the entire Milky Way, and extending
into the nearby Andromeda Galaxy (such as Tupile, or the Ixian colony that Leto II discovered through prescient vision), with only
the most prominent planets of the pre-Scattering Imperium being in the Orion Arm. The Scattering changed all this, however -
the people of the Scattering not only spread throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, but made fold-space jumps to other galaxies,
such as Andromeda. In this way, people lived too far and wide to be governed by a single prescient force, as God-Emperor Leto
II had intended. This, combined with the prescience-cloaking genes spread by Siona Atreides' descendants, achieved Leto II's
Golden Path.
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