SpiceGuid Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Open-ended finale? Styx passage? Chapterhouse sounds like the dawn to me.The end is a recurring theme in Chapterhouse, the more i think about it the more i am convinced it is the end.Probably at a previous point in time more was planned by Frank Herbert, and Brian Herbert has right to continue and follow his own agenda, but that's another story where Chapterhouse is the beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 im talking about the books published by TOR Science Fiction (for the machine crusade) and ACE Science Fiction (chapterhouse) i dont know who publishd huntersI've got the ACE edition of Chapterhouse and I've always thought the strange object is the no-ship... Although sometimes I think it looks like some kind of a temple... ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piterdevries Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 how about the machine crusade cover? is that erasmus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 how about the machine crusade cover? is that erasmus? I believe it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord vernius of ix Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Hunters of Dune Erasmus spoiler (~Andrew):[hide]how come in the hunters of dune erasmus is a cross dressor, i always figured erasmus as a more maleish robot, not an old lady lol(though showing himself as an old lady does seem like something erasmus would do) [/hide] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Bit of a spoiler there; you may want to hide thatg post and issue a warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Bit of a spoiler there; you may want to hide thatg post and issue a warning.Done.I thought he was talking about the cover of the book for some reason. :-X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 So did I... walked right into that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piterdevries Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 something bothers me.. its that artwork of Stephen Youll for SANDWORMS OF DUNE. the worms are in the water?? am i just hallucinating or what. ??? ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord vernius of ix Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 sorry about the spoiler thingy i casn eb a bit blunt sometimes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spacing Guild Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Here's a question. The "fire" in the bellies of the Sandworms. What is it? Is it that their metabolism is so strong that there is an actual physical manifestation of that in the form of flames? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJHunter Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Hi, I'm new here :) So greetings to you dear space travellers!I want to prepare some kind of RPG-strategy game via forum in duniverse so I need some information about few things :) I do hope you will help me by giving me long answers ;)1. CHOAMOk, it's a big organisation of merchants responsible for imports, exports.... But how does it work? Who exactly is in CHOAM? They just say "you can sell it" and to someone else "you can't"? It's important to me, so if anybody know something more, plz say...2. LandsraadAll noble houses are in Landsraad, right? And they protect the great convection, laws.What laws did they create?What is in the great convection?Landsraad has its own army is this like UN? - all houses give their soldiers?Why Landsraad did nothing about the conflict Atreides - Harkonnen?Did Emperor fear Landsraad, when he helped Harkonnen? If yes, why?3. Lasguns and shields.If someone will shoot to shield using lasguns it will make big boom, right? So, why never happened, that one fanatic guy shoot to group/army of soldiers protected by shields, and kill them all? Exactly the same situation with cities, cause they are also protected by shields. Isn't this stupid? One guy with BIG lasgun could blow up the whole city. I can't understand it. Neither can't imagine situation when two groups with lasguns charge on each other and when they see that enemy has shields they drop lasguns and draw knives. One shoot and there is no enemy... (maybe there is nobody because of long range, but if they were a group of fanatics...)Please explain it to me. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driftingcloud Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 3. Lasguns and shields.If someone will shoot to shield using lasguns it will make big boom, right? So, why never happened, that one fanatic guy shoot to group/army of soldiers protected by shields, and kill them all? Exactly the same situation with cities, cause they are also protected by shields. Isn't this stupid? One guy with BIG lasgun could blow up the whole city. I can't understand it. Neither can't imagine situation when two groups with lasguns charge on each other and when they see that enemy has shields they drop lasguns and draw knives. One shoot and there is no enemy... (maybe there is nobody because of long range, but if they were a group of fanatics...)Please explain it to me. well, there's the issue of a positive feedback loop. The big boom happens at both ends of the laser. The target shield goes boom and the lasgun (and operator) goes boom. Only suicide fanatics would do something like that. Why there aren't more people committed to suicide, I don't know. Maybe it wasn't worth it if you destroyed the city/planet/equipment you hoped to gain by the attack. Dune, for example, was notoriously bad on equipment. So if the Harkonnens wiped out the Atreides by lasgun attack to Arakeen shields, they lose a major city and the equipment housed there. That would be bad for business if they were intending to get back into spice production. And that is the most critical element, right? The spice must flow? Everyone is addicted to it for their extra long lives. If I remember correctly, the Butlerian Jihad book got this fact a little wrong with Holtzmann and his discovery of the same. The shield blew up but the lasgun operator did not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Don't forget that the shield-lasgun interaction explosion could be unpredictably powerful, equaling that of a nuclear weapon, which would be a violation of the Great Convention. No House could risk that, but it is certain that Leto I considered a possibility of a lasgun attack by the Harkonnen. Here's an extract from the conversation between Thufir Hawat and the Lady Jessica:"...Perhaps it has to do with the lasguns. Perhaps they'll risk secreting a few lasguns with timing mechanisms aimed at house shields. Perhaps they'll...""And who could tell after the blast if the explosion wasn't atomic?" he asked. "No, my Lady. They'll not risk anything that illegal. Radiation lingers. The evidence is hard to erase. No. They'll observe most of the forms."Besides, it is mentioned in Heretics or Chapterhouse (more probably the latter) that setting traps with Holtzmann shields and lasguns (no fanatics there, only mechanisms) by the Honored Matres was a very expensive thing.JJHunter, most of your questions have possible answeres in the Dune Encyclopedia, but keep in mind that it is actually not considered "canon" by those who are in charge. Here you can get the link to a PDF version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJHunter Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Thx mates :) That helped me a lot!Specially Dune Encyclopedia ;)Great thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainatom Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 yea i got a question. does anyone know the little prayer that kynes was saying as the sand worm was passing out while he was out with the duke an they rescued that harvester? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimbringer Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Kyne said a bunch of things, I dont remember a Sandworm passing out.I think you are talking about the part where he said."Bless the maker and bless his water"Â "Bless the coming and going of him, may his passage cleanse the world, may he keep the world for his people." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyNinjaD Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Do any of the books ever explicitly say what happened to earth (Old Terra)? I've read them all except the Legends of Dune trilogy.I remember vague references to it being destroyed, but they never say exactly how it happened. Anyone know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 According to the Dune Encyclopedia, Earth was decimated but then restored as a park:13402 Ceres gains the Imperial Seat after a planetoid strikes Terra.13402-13399 THE RESCUE OF THE TREASURES from Terra.13360 Terra re-seeded and set aside (by Imperial edict) as a natural park.But then again, DE is branded as "non-canon"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMA_1 Posted June 17, 2007 Author Share Posted June 17, 2007 more and more, I am beginning to think that the history of earth is such a distant societal memory that it isnt as revered as many other sci fi series make it to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 I think this partially has to do with Dune taking place in such a distant future and the fact that known space (# of planets etc) is such a large area, it is hard to remember earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunenewt Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 13402 Ceres gains the Imperial Seat after a planetoid strikes Terra.13402-13399 THE RESCUE OF THE TREASURES from Terra.13360 Terra re-seeded and set aside (by Imperial edict) as a natural park.Ceres as in the asteroid? Or is it a dwarf planet these days..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMA_1 Posted August 6, 2007 Author Share Posted August 6, 2007 hmm I have always been curious as well, I would agree that it is talking about the dwarf planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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