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Dune/ Time Travel AU
Leto, Jessica, Paul, Baron Harkonnen, and Shaddam Corrino travel back in time. They are given a chance to rectify their mistakes. What do they do and how does it play out? They could do it separately or together.
Roaring 20's AU
Shaddam Corrino IV, who heads a stockbroking firm in New York, also owns a string of large warehouses, across the states, bought by his father some thirty years ago. He's been trying to sell them off, to raise money and offset the losses he suffered in the Russian and the European market due to the war and revolution, when he's approached by the Harkonnens. They're into manufacturing steel, mining coal and drilling for petroleum--also saloons and the flesh trade. They'll lease the warehouses from him, using shell companies, to store the liquor they plan to smuggle into the US when prohibition becomes law. Shaddam agrees to this proposal.
But, unknown to Shaddam, the Harkonnens have enemies, FBI agents Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho, who are keeping them under scrutiny. A year after the deal is made, they raid one of the warehouses where the smuggled liquor is stored, just when Glossu Rabban Harkonnen is present to ensure the despatch of goods to their destinations. He is killed and the FBI has a lead. They also find more than liquor in that warehouse--they find drugs.
Meanwhile, Glossu's uncle, Vladimir, is determined to have his younger nephew, Feyd-Rautha, marry into the Corrino family to control the stockbroking firm Shaddam and his forebears built up. The younger Corrino girls are married; Irulan, the eldest daughter, now a woman of 28, has been looking after her father's household and her younger sisters since her mother's death seven years ago. The Baron settles upon her as the bride for his nephew.
When the local FBI station director, Leto Atreides (who is also related to him) begins asking Shaddam questions about the warehouse and its lease, he clams up, just giving Leto the name of the shell company with which he'd signed the contract. He's ready to bail when he learns that both liquor and drugs were found in that warehouse. However, Vladimir reveals he has evidence that could implicate Shaddam in his smuggling operations (tapes of their conversations re the leasing of Corrino warehouses). He says he will not reveal this if he allows his daughter Irulan to marry Feyd-Rautha. Shaddam reluctantly agrees.
When he learns of the Corrino-Harkonnen engagement, Leto begins to investigate the other warehouses Shaddam owns. He also recruits his son, Paul, who's just returned from the war in Europe, to tail Irulan, who might be in danger from the Harkonnens.
Meanwhile, Shaddam asks Hasimir Fenring, his assistant, to investigate Feyd-Rautha. Fenring digs up disturbing details of his sexual proclivities. That's when Shaddam asks Hasimir's wife, Margot, for help and also warns Irulan about what to expect.
Heiress Designate AU
Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV names Irulan his successor and asks all lords great and small of the Landsraad, as well as their heirs designate, to swear their oaths of loyalty to her.
Five Bridegrooms for Five Sisters AU
In which Shaddam arranges for Irulan and her sisters to meet the eligible bachelors of the Imperium. How does it work and who are these guys?