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Baron Porkface
Jan 22, 2007


Just stopping by to remind everyone that Chapterhouse:Dune has genetically engineered catgirls.

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Baron Porkface
Jan 22, 2007


Can we talk about how poo poo Richese is compared to IX?




The only thing they manufacture is disappointment.

Baron Porkface
Jan 22, 2007


david_a posted:

There’s not much info on this, but I believe FTL travel existed before the Guild (how the hell did anyone get to Arrakis to discover the spice otherwise?). It’s just way slower and more dangerous than using Navigators. In my head canon it involves talking smaller incremental jumps and sometimes you calculate/guess wrong and jump into a star, whoops!

As a reminder, the navigators don't fold space, the Holtzman drive does. The navigators make the process reliable. It may be that navigators simply look 5 minutes into the future and see if the ship blew up, and if it did make adjustments until it works.


Perhaps pre-guild ships had to use BattleTech rules for system entry and a navigator assisted jump would be considered an extreme Pirate jump.

Baron Porkface
Jan 22, 2007


Bugblatter posted:

Herbert had changed his views on a lot of things, had a lot of less successful books, then came back and injected his new ideas (plus a bunch of influence from Jodorowsky's production) into his one successful property.


Elaborate please.

Baron Porkface
Jan 22, 2007


Why did firing the bazooka at the thopter fail one time but work the second?

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Baron Porkface
Jan 22, 2007


Unti today I never made the connection that the nose plugs look like a Hitler mustache.

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