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Until this point, interstellar travel had effected a widespread population of the universe which could no longer be controlled by the Imperial House Ceres.

The development of Holtzman Wave generators gives mankind the means to easily communicate across vast distances and results in the long and " ferocious " Wars of Reunification.

Holtzman himself remains in seclusion, returning to civilization five times.

On his third return, over 2000 years after his original escape, he gives humanity his next related discovery: defensive shields.

On his fourth return millennia later, " Holtzman ' published ' his unified theory, linking the various effects into a single hierarchy of phenomena.

" The last intelligent machine left in existence after the Butlerian Jihad, he is apparently destroyed in 108 B. G.

Knowing his ship is booby trapped with a dormant laser aimed at a defensive shield, the Jihad fleet send a volunteer to board the ship, thereby setting off the explosion which results from shield-laser interaction.