Location from Dune by Frank Herbert
The site of the Battle of Corrin — the decisive engagement that ended the Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines and established the political order of the known Imperium.
Corrin is a graveyard planet — a monument to the war that shaped human civilization. The atmosphere has a metallic taste in the old blast zones. Wind moves through the ruins of machine strongholds with a sound like breathing. Pilgrims come here to stand where humanity made its stand against the thinking machines, though fewer every century. The battle gave House Corrino its name and its claim to the Imperial throne. The prohibitions against thinking machines — 'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind' — were born from the horrors witnessed here. Every Mentat, every Spacing Guild Navigator, every Bene Gesserit training technique exists because of what happened on this world.
A scarred world. Ancient blast craters pock the surface, vitrified by atomics fired ten thousand years ago. Some regions have recovered — scrubby vegetation reclaiming the wounds. Others remain dead zones, the ground still faintly radioactive. Memorials mark the battle sites: towering obelisks of black stone inscribed with the names of the fallen. The ruins of the machine fortifications still stand in places, their alien geometry slowly crumbling.
Also known as: the Battle Planet, site of the Butlerian Jihad's end