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* [[Mobile Factory]]: Harvester factories move across the desert refining spice from sand. |
* [[Mobile Factory]]: Harvester factories move across the desert refining spice from sand. |
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* [[Modest Royalty]]: Emperor Shaddam IV, who prefers spending most of his time in the war room rather than in the court, and wears the military uniform of a Sardaukar instead of any royal pomp. Politics really isn't his thing, and he only flaunts his wealth when he has to. |
* [[Modest Royalty]]: Emperor Shaddam IV, who prefers spending most of his time in the war room rather than in the court, and wears the military uniform of a Sardaukar instead of any royal pomp. Politics really isn't his thing, and he only flaunts his wealth when he has to. |
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** Averted, however, in how he travels. When the Emperor arrives on Arrakis at the end to manage the crisis he brings a ''ridiculously'' large entourage of hangers-on, Court attendants, servants, servants for the servants, etc. along with him, and then has an elaborate temporary prefab-palace built at the battle site to house them all. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, himself a classic example of conspicuous consumption and wallowing in decadence, notes to himself that its the single most ostentatious display of wealth he's ever seen in his life. |
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* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]/[[Technicolor Eyes]]: A result of high-level Spice addiction, when enough ingestion saturates the blood stream and stains the eyes. Described in the books as "blue-on-blue". |
* [[Monochromatic Eyes]]/[[Technicolor Eyes]]: A result of high-level Spice addiction, when enough ingestion saturates the blood stream and stains the eyes. Described in the books as "blue-on-blue". |
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* [[Mundane Utility]]: Horse drawn antigravity wagons for farmers. ''Dune'', for all your anachronistic needs. Justified in that Leto II intentionally suppresses all forms of advanced culture and technology except those he uses himself, as part of his [[Xanatos Gambit]] to force humanity to evolve. |
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Horse drawn antigravity wagons for farmers. ''Dune'', for all your anachronistic needs. Justified in that Leto II intentionally suppresses all forms of advanced culture and technology except those he uses himself, as part of his [[Xanatos Gambit]] to force humanity to evolve. |
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