A redesign of the board game Dune. It was designed by Bill Eberle, Jack Kittredge and Peter Olotka in 1979 published by Avalon Hill. It was originally meant to be a game called Tribute set in the times of the Roman empire, but then changed environment to the Dune universe. The game was reprinted by Fantasy Flight Games in 2012 as Rex: Final Days of an Empire, who were not able to get the license for the Dune setting and as a result, the game's setting was switched to Fantasy Flight's Twilight Imperium universe. A lot of the design elements are appropriated from the design created by Ilya Baranovsky in 2011.