Origins of Fremen Technology

[TMA_1]

The fremen are obviously very technologically advanced in many ways, and it is silly to say different.

Things like distrans messaging (which if I remember right they came up with, the DE says so as well so I guess I feel that assumption is correct), to stilsuits. Also their use of synthetics from the spice melange. All sorts of things.

Where did these technologies come from? It could be just inventions that sprouted from arrakis itself, but the DE says that many of these technologies had their origins in the great zensunni wandering. This would make sense as they would encounter many places and people along the way, and adapt accordingly.

what do you guys think about this?

[Andrew]

I would think they invented dew collectors themselves as Arrakis would be the planet with least amount of water. Or at least they would have created much larger dew collectors than were on other planets.

[TMA_1]

I totally agree with the dew collectors and things, but it shows that they have abilities to advance themselves. I just think that they werent the "poor bumpkins" that people make them out to be. they seem to be pretty sophisticated in my eyes.

[Scott]

I wouldn't say they were as technologically advanced as the other factions in the Imperium but they made due with what they had on Arrakis and flourish quite well. They did come up with more efficent ways to conserve moisture but that is not really comparable to technologies found on Ix or Tleilax. I'd say they weren't the savages they were considered to be and were largely underestimated.

I was just thinking, how did the Fremen aquire crysknives? And how could they be rigged as fixed or unfixed? I'm sure its in the DE but im too lazy to look. Any ideas?

[TMA_1]

well from what I remember in the DE, they got them from the large SandWorm, which was a really big deal, and hard to find their bodies.

Well from what I remember, and ti has been awhile. Fixed knives revieved an electronic pulse so that they didnt have to be near the body of an individual to decompose.

unfixed knives were those that needed to be around the electro-magnetism of the body, and was eventually specifically "tuned" in a way to that particular body. So that nobody else could have them without them decomposing.

[Scott]

Heh, I don't know what to say, seems like a dumb question now that its been answered. Thanks TMA.

[TMA_1]

yeah that is what I was getting at, but not only am I not a scientist, or have a really good handle on it, but I also have a bad memory, so my answer was vague.hehe

[Inhuien]

One completely unique item that the Fremen invented was the Stillsuit and of course all the specialised items in the Fremkit (I think that’s what its called), a collection of survival items that would allow a Fremen to live independently on the open Bled.

[Vanguard3000]

Many of the Fremen technologies would have been created out of necessity, for obvious reasons.  The dew collectors, stillsuits, and melange-polymer frictionless tubing (one of my favourite techs) are all examples of this.  Other technologies would have been adapted or copied from regular techlogogies commonly found throughout the Imperium, such as distrans and glowglobes.

[Bijaz]

It might be Zensunni (is it spellt right?) technology

[Tako]

It might be Zensunni (is it spellt right?) technology

zensunni is a way of life more of a believe it does not give technology