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* Alternatively, a war caused by robots Taking Our Jobs and the creation of sexbots, thus making humans obsolete. We fought back harder than the RIAA.
* Or maybe a war against some kind of ''[[Sleep Dealer]]'' type of scenario.
* Alternatively, the ''Dune'' universe was preceded by ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', ''[[Stargate SG
* ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]''! It would fit perfectly!
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** Only if you count the non-Frank Herbert prequels as Canon.
* Part of the storyline in the last two books is that the Bene Gesserit have ''never'' exercised that level of control over humanity, and that they have to do so to stop the Honored Matres. Not to mention that the history of the early Imperium seems to be fairly well remembered by most characters in-universe.
* It doesn't just have to be the Bene Gesserit either. The empire and a lot of the Houses Major could have been in on it, because they would want an excuse to quickly band together and put down any rebellion against the feudal order, not unlike the [
== Arrakis and the Sandworms were created by Omnius ==.
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== Following on that, Glossu Rabban Harkonnen survived the events of Dune ==
He was smart enough to get an off-screen "death", rather than his cousin's in your face and on-page vicious stabbing.
* Unfortunately for the film version his head ''is'' on-screen at the end, while not attached to the rest of him.
== [[Sherlock Holmes|Mycroft Holmes]] is a proto-Mentat ==
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** If she had killed Paul, Gurney/Thufir/Idaho would have followed her back to Chapterhouse if necessary to make sure she was executed. It wouldn't make sense to actually poison the needle and risk accidentally killing him (even a Reverend Mother might be vulnerable to accidents, e.g. earthquake).
*** It's established in later books that it's actually pretty goddamned hard to kill a Reverend Mother by "normal" means. Not to mention the whole protection of the Emperor thing. And finally, they had a pretty good idea that Paul was a candidate for the Kwisatz Haderach, or in other words, a male ''truthsayer''. Trying to bullshit him about a poisoned needle would have risked him getting smart to it and compromising the test.
*** There's also that the Lady Jessica was an accomplice to the test, which means she already has to have thought through ahead of time what her plan will be if Paul dies (and 'throw the Reverend Mother to the wolves' could not be it, or else the Reverend Mother would have seen it -- she can read Jessica like an open book -- and simply aborted.) If necessary, Jessica would quite likely lie and say Paul was killed by an unseen assassin, or help the Reverend Mother throw a hunter-seeker down on the corpse before calling for the guards, and she's the one person above all else that Duke Leto would believe.
== [[Time Lord]] ==
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== Sandworms are nuclear powered ==
* Arrakis orbits Canopus; a star only a few tens of millions of years old, at the most; this means that the concentration of U-235 in natural uranium must be much higher, because it hasn't had time to decay. The sandworms have no apparent source of energy other than the sand plankton, and, since the plankton only eat spice, they don't represent an energy input into the system. This means the sandworms have to be internally fueled by nuclear reactions; a sandworm collects uranium and stores it internally in such a way that it can control the reaction (possibly by regulating the distance between the masses). The heat from this reaction (somehow) fuels the endothermic internal processes they need to create chemically usable calories and output oxygen. This also explains why water sends their internal biology into overdrive; it functions as a neutron moderator, massively speeding up the nuclear reaction. Essentially, the worm has a very strongly negative [
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