colour of Spice Melange

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I just read on page 467 in the european version of Legends of Dune that spice is brownish. I heard someone thought it was green or something once lol. So Westwood was right about the colour in the games, duno if this has been mentioned before

If you don't got the european version then you will find it in the chapter where Tuk Keedair meets Aurelius Venport on Rossak.

[Vanguard3000]

In the mini, it's a sort of greenish-grey colour. That's probably what you're thinking about.

Anyway, I always pictured it as being a brownigh orange. It looks the best when mixed with sand that way.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

well the greenish grey colour is not the way it is described in the BJ book. There it is said that it is Brown. so that means that spice is Brown!!!!! pure spice melange is brown!

[Vanguard3000]

I know, but you said someone told you it was "green or something once lol". I was clarifying that.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

oh yeah, sorry. I misunderstood my fault :-[

[TMA_1]

I always pictured the pure spice essense as blue. that the pure spice is that color and the rest is just some sort of treatment that the sun did to the spice. just an opinion though.

[Vanguard3000]

That could be true. The pre-Spice mass may have been some other colour, and it orangified as it baked in the sun, becoming Spice.

Wasn't the Sandtrout syrup a greenish colour?

[Muad dib]

That might be right about the sun thing. But spice comes from makers if ,Im not mistaken, so when they do "make it" the dry are could affect it so it would turn a different color.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

well it is not blue when BJ says that it is brownish. there is no further discussion. it is brown just look at the page I mentioned

[NeoDevilbane]

What's a "colour"?

- Neo

[Emperor Harkonnen]

what the hell do you mean?

[TMA_1]

hehe he was kidding. you mean butlerian jihad states that? good grief, no wonder why I disagree. hehe If it isnt blue then it is totally orange. Remember the navigators breathed in pure spice gas. I dont picture it as a rough orange but an actual orange color.

[Vanguard3000]

I agree with TMA. When I picture the Steersmen, it seems so surreal to think of them as swirling around in an orange gas.

Anyway, Harkonnen, you can't always take the prequels seriously. They are fan fiction, as opposed to the Chronicles.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I thought that the prequels were real books, which were just as reliable as the original books.

and who do you think is right, you guys who think it is orange or Brian and Kevin who thinks it is brownish?

[Vanguard3000]

The way I see it is that the prequels are no more canon than the Dune Encyclopedia, or Elixir, or Revenant. Was it written by Frank Herbert? No. Thus, I consider it fan fiction.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I don't think so, cos then the duniverse would always be the same with the same books, and we would never move on to know further stuff about it.

[NHJ BV]

AFAIK:

Pre-spice mass: Greenish

Spice Essence: Blue

Spice lying around in the desert: Orange-brown.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

which one of those are pure spice?

[Vanguard3000]

I don't think so, cos then the duniverse would always be the same with the same books, and we would never move on to know further stuff about it.

On the contrary. If you consider them all to be fan fiction, you get to choose which one to consider the best. Not only that, but you could also choose to make up your own thing.

[ilexatrei]

Aren't the prequels based solely upon the notes actually written down by Frank Herbert?

So, in essence I disagree and in fact they are not fan fiction just the continuation of what Frank Herbert was unable to complete.

And with a further note, I can't wait until they release the prequels about the beginning of the great schools and the notes themselves.

[TMA_1]

how many "notes" were there though? how much artistic license did brian and kevin take? see this is why I agree with vnaguard.

[ilexatrei]

we will find out whenever they are done using them to write new novels.

Only then will they publish them and we have the ability to see it.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

I agree with you ilexatrei. I think it is a continiuanse of frank's work.

[Vanguard3000]

ilexatrei: My understanding is that only Dune7 will be based on Frank's notes. Mr. Herbert never intended to write prequels, as far as I know.

And, as TMA said, who know how much artistic licence the two took when writing these books, or plan to take when writing Dune7.

[Colonel_Worf]

I always imagined a dull orange... almost like sand,but not really.