skasion posted:

Either that or he seriously lowballed the distance from Carthag to Arrakeen. 200km is kind of oddly close for major urban centers, especially in a resource-poor environment. Riyadh and Jeddah are like, five times further apart than that.

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

I resemble that remark.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I'm sorry for your brain.

phasmid posted:

that "foldspace" happens because wormholes are literally just that and Shai-Hulud has cousins in deep space

Prolonged Priapism posted:

I'm working on some fanart where they're shaped something like giant nautilus shells. So there's one big yawning opening/hold, and behind that successively smaller chambers as you spiral around to the core. A tapered and rolled up cylinder.

Anne Frank Funk posted:

"Tell me, old worm, is there a monster penis hidden in that monster body of yours?”

Lol

Honky Dong Country posted:

Pimblor posted:

"I'm not your damned breeding stud!" Duncan roared sexually while sexing with a sexual addiction with a sexy manner.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

He struggles with the sexy disease of sexlexia.

Prolonged Priapism posted:

https://twitter.com/AlexJayBrady/status/1148682386244349953
Some nice Heighliner concepts. I like the Athenian owl coin acting like a big sigil of some kind - wonder if it's supposed to indicate the House that's got it's ships along the inside of the main hull, or the Guild itself?

In Heretics Teg sees the side of a mechanically-Navigated ship, which has "the Ixian symbol within the Guild cartouche" so that sort of ancient branding feels right to me.

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

The navigators don't fold space with their mind

Space folding is just dangerous because you never know exactly where you will reappear, and thus navigators use their prescience to foresee it.

Temaukel posted:

It's been confirmed that the BG show is an adaptation of Brian's book:
https://twitter.com/SecretsOfDune/status/1148734042801618944

Temaukel posted:

It's been confirmed that the BG show is an adaptation of Brian's book:
https://twitter.com/SecretsOfDune/status/1148734042801618944

Tertius Oculum posted:

If Frank is Duke Leto and @duneauthor is Paul, when are we going to get Leto II to fix this loving series.

Or is @duneauthor Leto II?? Hmmm

Defiance Industries posted:

I thought Leto didn't have a choice but to take Arrakis? Wasn't the Emperor ordering him to relocate there?

tight aspirations posted:

I was being facetious, but the Harkonnen/ Sardaukar attack was what, a couple of weeks after the change of fief? It seems he was pretty hosed either way. Odd the BG didn't pull a few strings so they didn't come awful close to losing the entire bloodline, but maybe they were still a bit pissed with Jessica.

quote:

"Truth," the old woman said. "And all we can hope for now is to prevent this from erupting into general conflagration, to salvage what we can of the key bloodlines."

Jessica closed her eyes, feeling tears press out beneath the lids. She fought down the inner trembling, the outer trembling, the uneven breathing, the ragged pulse, the sweating of the palms. Presently, she said, "I'll pay for my own mistake."

"And your son will pay with you."

"I'll shield him as well as I'm able."

"Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny."

Jessica turned away, looked out the window at the gathering darkness. "Is it really that terrible, this planet of Arrakis?"

"Bad enough, but not all bad. The Missionaria Protectiva has been in there and softened it up somewhat." The Reverend Mother heaved herself to her feet, straightened a fold in her gown. "Call the boy in here. I must be leaving soon."

"Must you?"

The old woman's voice softened. "Jessica, girl, I wish I could stand in your place and take your sufferings. But each of us must make her own path."

quote:

"You think I could be this Kwisatz Haderach," he said. "You talk about me, but you haven't said one thing about what we can do to help my father. I've heard you talking to my mother. You talk as though my father were dead. Well, he isn't!"

"If there were a thing to be done for him, we'd have done it," the old woman growled. "We may be able to salvage you. Doubtful, but possible. But for your father, nothing. When you've learned to accept that as a fact, you've learned a real Bene Gesserit lesson."

tight aspirations posted:

I was being facetious, but the Harkonnen/ Sardaukar attack was what, a couple of weeks after the change of fief? It seems he was pretty hosed either way. Odd the BG didn't pull a few strings so they didn't come awful close to losing the entire bloodline, but maybe they were still a bit pissed with Jessica.

ilovebeersooomuch posted:

C'mon son, prequels?!

Dune posted:

With the Lady Jessica and Arrakis, the Bene Gesserit system of sowing implant-legends through the Missionaria Protectiva came to its full fruition. The wisdom of seeding the known universe with aprophecy pattern for the protection of B.G. personnel has long been appreciated, but never have weseen a condition-ut-extremis with more ideal mating of person and preparation. The prophetic legendshad taken on Arrakis even to the extent of adopted labels (including Reverend Mother, canto andrespondu, and most of the Shari-a panoplia propheticus). And it is generally accepted now that the Lady Jessica's latent abilities were grossly underestimated.

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

I don't get what you are saying. I never read the prequels and the original books are pretty clear that navigators have limited powers and are responsible of plotting a safe course through space and time (what computers would do before the butlerian jihad probably) ?

How would fast space travel be possible before the guild existed if only navigators can achieve it with spice?

Pham Nuwen posted:

And they made their effort to preserve the Harkonnen side of the bloodline. I assume their Kwisatz Haderach project involved hundreds or thousands of people they were tracking and attempting to interbreed, and the Atreides + Harkonnen union was just one possible way to produce it. If that failed, they'd just go back a few steps and try again.

Shaddak posted:

There's no real way of knowing that, as I don't think Old Frank ever spelled out what people did for space travel before the guild (I may be wrong about that, it's been a few years). Although it's never explicitly spelled out in the non-existant prequels, Failson strongly implies that people had some sort of FTL engines (just i terms of travel times between planetary systems, that is).

Pham Nuwen posted:

I mean they were apparently trying? That's how I read this passage, with Mohiam suggesting how Jessica and Paul might take refuge with the people of Arrakis:


Similarly, this:


And they made their effort to preserve the Harkonnen side of the bloodline. I assume their Kwisatz Haderach project involved hundreds or thousands of people they were tracking and attempting to interbreed, and the Atreides + Harkonnen union was just one possible way to produce it. If that failed, they'd just go back a few steps and try again.