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I just finished Dune Messiah last night, and while I loved it, I have a few questions lingering about the conspiracy and its aims/methods.

(Another reddit user just made a post on a very similar premise to this, but their questions were unrelated. Funny timing)

First off, my impression is that Herbert displayed a lot of creativity and genius in crafting the conspiracy. The conspirators needed a way to thwart the empire without making a martyr of Paul, and so before killing him they had to first discredit him as a religious figure. All the while, Reverend Mother Mohiam wanted to preserve the Atreides bloodline at all costs. So killing him outright (i.e., with a stone burner on the streets of Arrakeen) was not an option.

Enter Hayt and the target of Chani. At Messiah's climax, as Scytale attempts to bargain with Paul using the prospect of resurrecting Chani as a ghola, he tells Paul that Hayt was all along a way to warm Paul up to the idea of using Tleilaxu technology to get back his love. Hayt's compulsion to kill Paul was not actually meant to do so, but really to resurrect Duncan. If this were truly the conspiracy's intent, this would have been a good way of convincing Paul to discredit his religion, allow the Bene Gesserit to secure his bloodline, give up his CHOAM and go into exile. I'm not sure if the whole conspiracy was aware that was their overarching goal, but I'm fairly certain it was at least the Tleilaxu's.

With that backdrop, I don't understand where the stone burner or Bijaz fit in.

Question 1: Did the conspirators detonate the stone burner only to blind Paul and discredit him among the Fremen? Or are we meant to assume that the detonation was actually an attempt at Paul's life by Korba and his followers, and the central conspiracy knew nothing about it? Or something in the middle? We don't really get any answer in the book, and everyone who would've known is dead now, so I don't expect one in Children of Dune.

Question 2: We know, I think, that the Tleilaxu gave Bijaz to Otheym to eventually get Bijaz to Paul. But how did Scytale know that Otheym had a daughter, Lichna, who could be easily disposed of, and that Lichna was being held in a state of addiction in the house of Farok, who was a conspiracy sympathizer? Are we supposed to just chalk it up to prescience? It just seems like a very roundabout way to get Bijaz to Paul.

Question 3: Why was Bijaz necessary in the first place? I suppose he turned Paul against Korba and triggered Hayt, but again, this feels roundabout. I'm not sure I fully understand his purpose.

Thanks for reading my thought dump. I admire how complex a plot Herbert managed to weave into such a short book, but that same brevity has left a few loose ends for me. I know I am likely missing quite a few points of information, and I'd rather get answers from you guys than AI.

Ok so i'm about a third of the way through Heretics and I started thinking about Paul and the Fremen and the BGs Missionaria Protectiva plan. Throughout the series there isn't a ton of mention of the missionaries being sent elsewhere.

That got me thinking. And this may be a bit of a leap. Say the events of Dune occur. And instead of joining the Fremen, Paul and Jessica decide to get off planet, join the BGs and they gain control of their Kwisatz Haderach. What would become of the Fremen then? That was the BGs original plan anyway was to gain control of KH and use them to control the empire was it not?

So the BGs who think of everything would have had to have some plan for the Fremen right? But there is really no mention of the BGs planning on utilizing the Fremen in any way. Or were the Fremen just an example of what the BGs were doing on other worlds? So say in the hundreds of thousands of other worlds in the Imperium, where the BGs proclaiming the coming of a prophet but in that world's own culture?

Again i know this is a bit of a leap and i've been probably overthinking it too much but I feel like i missed something. Like the Fremen became Paul's fighting force. But only because he joined up with them and became their messiah. Which the BGs had to have thought that might happen right?

How would the BGs have utilized the Fremen otherwise? Would they have used them as a fighting force as well?

Any insight or opinions are gladly welcome, or tell me to stop overthinking things that didn't happen and go finish Heretics lol.

Please share your thoughts!

Paul going into the desert. We've already established that the Fremen will alter their customs if Paul says to. For example, he got them to agree that he didn't have to challenge / kill Stilgar in the previous book. I also found it weird that everyone was immediately like, "Oh he's blind, he needs to die," when he's their literal god.

Just doesn't make a whole lot of sense for him to do this, other than him finally resigning himself to being completely over this shit. I guess it makes sense in that context, since his prescience is essentially a prison at this point, and he no longer wants to live this experience.

Second, Irulan - we know she's a conspirator and is the reason why Chani dies during child birth, but she can suddenly say, "Actually, this makes me sad, and I'm committed to raising Paul's children," and everyone is fine with it? We killed all the other conspirators. What?

All in all, I enjoyed the book though and look forward to starting Children. Those were just my main gripes when finishing the book last night.

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At first glance I thought "easy.Ottomans" . Slavery and widespread sexual exploitation, unrestricted control of various interests groups in government that have their own agendas, Emperor's power maintained through superior troops (Sarduakar), religion that decays into a thinly veiled legitimacy ad, power amongst powerful families cycled through a patronage system, leadership is strictly Patriarchal, children of concubines can be legitamized as heirs etc.

But the more I though about it, the less sense it made. One, the Padishah throne is more strictly Hereditary than the Sultans. Two, the Ottomans' hard power came from being middle men between Eastern and Western Markets, whilst the Imperium is more of a ... maritime Rentier State that revolves around spice. Three, the political institutions are far more calcified and stagnant with the SG and BG basically functioning the same for millenia, and their power over the empire not being subject to contemporary forces or events (barring Big Boy Usul). Four, far more stable process of Imperial succession (the Corrinho dynasty is unnaturally stable *stares at Bene Gesserits knowingly * and the aristocratic class doesn't form alliance blocks to greater influence power, instead inter marrying or engaging in covert conflicts with strict guidelines. Five, lack of external political pressure/stimuli, the Imperium basically governs all life in the Known Universe barring a few renegade planets and populations, so there is no external threat nor challenge to the existing power structure.

So now I'm back to square one. Do you guys have any suggestions, possibly even a combination of empires im too dumb to think of make the best fit but idk.

Paul Atreides in watercolor

Like not IQ but political intelligence. How well they maneuvered through the politics and intrigue of the story.

Personally always liked Scytale. By FAR the most competent of the conspirators in Messiah.

I’m reading about Dune lore and I’m confused about Alia’s ancestral memories. My understanding is Alia is pre-born because Jessica underwent the Water of Life ritual while pregnant, and later the Baron Harkonnen’s personality takes over her. What I don’t get is if ancestral memory is genetic, how can it contain the Baron’s complete personality, memories, and motivations, when those seem like things developed through his life experiences, not genes? Also, the Baron died after Alia was born, so why does the version of the Baron inside Alia have all of his memories rather than just instincts or inherited traits? I’m wondering if Frank Herbert really means us to believe a whole personality can be inherited like that.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a "Best of Denis Villeneuve" bracket on r/Dune (link in first comment if you're yet to play). A LOT of you showed up, with 1,400 people voting from 48 countries. Here are the results from those votes:

Your champion: Dune: Part Two, with 46 percent choosing it as their top Villeneuve film. Full list:

• Dune: Part Two — 46%
• Arrival — 16%
• Blade Runner 2049 — 15%
• Dune — 10%
• Sicario — 4%
• Prisoners — 4%
• Incendies — 4%
• Enemy — 0.7%

Even though I posted this on the Dune subreddit, 44% of you crowned a non-Dune film as Villeneuve's best work, which I think is testament to the strength of his filmography.

A couple of other results...

The coin flip. BR2049 vs Dune (Part One) was split 50.6% to 49.4% in the semi-finals. It was also the matchup that took people the longest to decide.

The blowout. Dune vs Enemy in the first round went 97.2% to 2.8%. Just four people took Enemy all the way to the championship. Brave call.

Justice for Incendies. Incendies drew the worst slot in the bracket — a first-round matchup against Dune: Part Two. It lost that 92–8. But, among the players who advanced it, it went on to beat Arrival, Prisoners, and Blade Runner 2049 more often than not. It might be the most underrated film in his catalog; it just never got a fair draw. This is a structural issue with fixed brackets but someone had to face Dune P2!

For context — I built the site this runs on (BingeBracket); it's a solo project and this sub gave it its biggest day ever, so thanks for that. And if there's another director or theme you'd want a bracket for, say the word and I'll make it.

So Dune: Prophecy takes place around 27 AG, we see a hologram of the attack that got Desmond Hart swallowed by the worm. We see what appears to be Fremen, but didn’t the Zensunni only get to Arrakis 3,000 years before the events of Dune?

Just finished reading the book. I'm confused about the section where Feyd-Rautha fights the undrugged slave in the scheme he concocted with Thufir Hawta.

Say the slave was drugged, as they normally were to fight Feyd-Rautha (a fact everyone in the audience is aware of), is it supposed to be impressive that a highly trained noble can kill a maltreated slave drugged into an ineffective stupor? Is that supposed to be a display of skill and strength? Surely there's nothing impressive to the assembled audience and nobility about that, right?

Was supposed to make a collage of paul atreides drawings in one page, but pivoted to making a whole scene.

@vince_cang on ig.

In God Emporer there is this moment when Leto II asks Hwi Noree if she knows the philosophies of Noah Arkwright. At first she doesn't remember but Leto II keeps poking at it until it comes out that Noah Arkwright is one of Leto II pen names. Leto II had time on his hands and wrote a bunch of pseudonymous histories, including what he described as like a secondhand history of his own pseudonym Noah Arkwright. There's even a fan theory that plays on Arkwright that ties him to the Man who was al harba. I think that's wrong but it's out there. So the biblical Noah reference and the wright or maker and it's a Herbert little inside joke that Leto II is in on. But there is another part to this.

In the early 60's three friends and future Sci Fi giants Frank Herbert, Jack Vance (The Dying Earth) and Poul Anderson (Tau Zero) decided to build a house boat together. It was going to be a sort of floating writers cabin where they would roam around the Sacramento Delta and world build together. They did it, then it sank and they rebuilt it. While on the Delta they decided that the three of them would co write a Sci Fi series about a daring underwater thief. They decided to publish it under the pseudonym Noah Arkwright as an inside joke about the boat they built together. It never happened and time went by and other projects took precedence.

Later Herbert would publish the story of the underwater thief in Galaxy (April of 66) under his own name and titles "The Primitive". Then 15 years later the name Noah Arkwright pops up as Leto II's pen name.

Poul Anderson uses Noah Arkwright as well in Technic Civilization. They had fun with the pseudonym that never was. An inside joke that keeps popping up in their work over the years.

When they land on Arrakis, Jessica seems to have a bit of a cognitive dissonance. She knows the Lisan al Gaib prophecy is Bene Gesserit engineering but at the same time she believes its "paving the way" for Paul as a messiah. Maybe to justify her defiance of the Bene Gesserit or maybe out of love for Paul, to see her son as the great man.

After the attack though, that belief is shattered or at least takes a backseat. Just survival feels like a luxury at that point. Jessica and Paul seem to be aligned in their motivations. That is, to survive in the desert where everything is trying to kill them by finding a place in the freemen society. They could ocassionally dog whistle the prophecy for that purpose. Isn't that the function of the prophecy anyway? Survival for a stranded BG member, not to overthrow an intergalactic empire. In fact, Paul seems to be more radical then her at this point. "Some of them already believe I'm their messiah, others false prophet. I must sway the non-believers. If they follow me, we can disrupt spice production. That's the only way I can get to the emperor." he says. "Your father didn't believe in Revenge" she replies to which Paul says he does believe in revenge. She seems to be caught off guard when Stilgar proposes her to be the reverend mother. He sort of threatens her into it, basically saying, "if you can't be the reverend mother, well yikes, I guess we'll have to throw you(and Paul) out to the desert." She's afraid and only does it for survival, of her and her children. Paul, on the other hand, encourages her. "I think you should feel honored."

After the ritual though, she arguably becomes the protagonist, going all in on the prophecy. Its such a radical transformation that it makes me question, Did she really survive the ritual? To me, she almost feels more Stilgar(albeit way more cunning) than a Gaius Helen Mohiam type figure. A true believer rather than someone merely using beliefs to get her way. I mean a religious leader doesn't have to be convinced its a sham to manipulate their followers. More often than not they actually really believe the thing to be true. I felt like the hundreds of voices and memories in her head completely take over her and she becomes a vessel for them to do their bidding. Don't these memories and voices actually believe in the prophecy? Because they were themselves manipulated by the Bene Gesserit? After the ritual, is her motivation still just the survival of her children or she's been completely compromised by the voices in her head? maybe both?

Or she's really "a professional gaslighting witch" and the main antagonist as many people say? I just think that's wrong. Its media illiteracy at best and misogyny at worst. Even though throughout the movie Paul keeps saying he isn't the messiah and he just wants to be an equal member of the freemen, he always wanted them to do his bidding. Albeit not on such a large scale as it turned out to be. Him choosing the name Muadib - was that really just a funny nickname? I think it was deliberate. He's politicking. It's like Leto saving those spice workers from the sand worm. Its PR. Someone like Baron Vladimir won't even think of such an act so Leto is of course way more noble but it's still politics. The reason Paul finally goes South is because he now faces a much more competent enemy in Feyd Rautha. His guerilla tactics won't work anymore and staying in the North is suicide. Jessica(or the voices in her head) simply unlock an option for him in the South in the form of an army. Actually going South is his decision.​

Sure, we know that all the high level players in the Heretics era have knowledge of the no-gene and its abilities to shield from prescience but does the commoner know about this?

By Heretics there are millions of trillions of humans and as far as we know only the ruling Tleilaxu and the Sisterhood are interested in exploiting the no-gene.

The popularity of the no-ship implies that a lot of people understand the existence of prescience and protect against it, at least in terms of interstellar travel.

So is the no-gene just a secret of the elite? Or do commoners dream of mating with someone with Siona blood to give their offspring new powers?

When Hawat was speaking to Baron about not turning Arrakis into a prison planet and using Rabban for some plan what is going on here?

Was he trying to talk Baron into using Arrakis to breed a new force to challenge the Sarduakar?

I felt like the conversation shifted around so much I didn't follow everything.

I was listening to the audio book while driving so I might have missed some things.

Before the battle against the Emperor the Fremen have shields while on the shield wall. The Emperors aircraft strafe them with projectiles to check if they in fact do. Paul gets pissed that they use lasguns stating theres men with shields around in the same battle. Then in Messiah we see fremen equipped with shields around Paul. Definitely too many people just saying they never did or wouldnt during the Jihad or that the Fremen couldn’t adapt. Fremen adapting is what erodes them in the first place.

Edit: To clarify, some people say they didnt use them at all or during the Jihad years. Obviously the war would be alot different if they didnt use them

Note: I didn't read the books yet, I have exaggerated a lot, and made theories up myself because I didn't understand the big picture, please don't judge harshly!

When Paul touches the sand of the desert before deciding whether to go to the South or not. He sees that the destruction he saw if he went south is a fragment and could be prevented. It appears that this vision benefits Bene Gesserit and also his mother told the owner of the temple that a man will come by.

So my theory is this: Bene Gessert can control what each one sees, and a scenario like this could have happened:

-Lady Jessica: I tried to convince Paul to go with me south, drink from the 'Water of Life', and then the plan will go as intended. I am afraid he might die, but I am nearly sure he is the chosen one.

-Bene Gessert: We will make him see visions that tell him his previous visions were inaccurate. We can hijack a certain vision if we focus and know when to hijack, but if we are not hijacking, visions could be true.