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Date Posted: 21:44:10 05/21/03 Wed
Author: Crysknife
Subject: the thing I didn't like about the pre's

While I did enjoy the prequels very much, the one thing that really bothered me was the space flight issue. In the originals it is a huge deal that the spice allows navigators to fold space and travel instantly from world to world. Yet, in the pre's, space flight doesn't seem to be much harder. In only a few months one could travel to many worlds. This, in my mind, lessens the value of the spice a great deal. One of my favorite things about the spice was that it could be used this way. Imagine a drug that could expand your mind in a way that allows you to see your path through space and then take that path instantly. It would be awsome. But, hey if you didn't have it, it will just take a couple of extra weeks, no big deal right? A tragedy.

Sure you could make the point that if the spice were to be destroyed, any pocket of civilization would have to redevelope the technology for this, but I don't think this would be too difficult. Once one did it could pass to all others.

So really the Spice only becomes important for age applications and to the B.G. Big deal.

Why not just forget about the GUILD and make your own ships? Sure seems to lessen their power doesn't it?

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I had some similar questions -- tvscks, 22:51:12 05/21/03 Wed
- Other galaxy? I don't know. -- Crysknife, 00:23:02 05/22/03 Thu
  - That clears some of it up for me -- tvscks, 02:43:45 05/22/03 Thu
Valid Points...but -- IDAHO, 02:51:15 05/22/03 Thu
- That raises my question again -- tvscks, 10:18:16 05/22/03 Thu
  - Well I think so -- IDAHO, 11:12:33 05/22/03 Thu
  - Er... -- theButterfly, 12:09:26 05/22/03 Thu
    - That's correct and reflected in the book. (NT) -- IDAHO, 13:46:09 05/22/03 Thu
      - Imagine how improtant spice is After Omnius can travel Instantaniously? -- RavensZim, 16:15:37 05/22/03 Thu
IDAHO...Ya but... -- Crysknife, 18:28:37 05/22/03 Thu
- Well I disagree -- IDAHO, 20:21:03 05/22/03 Thu
  - I'll buy that, Idaho. (NT) -- tvscks, 21:01:09 05/22/03 Thu
    - too Star Warish I think. -- Crysknife, 02:23:40 05/23/03 Fri
      - But it IS like you said -- IDAHO, 12:49:57 05/23/03 Fri
      - But it IS like you said -- IDAHO, 13:55:59 05/23/03 Fri
        Ahh but it does conflict..... final thoughts -- Crysknife, 19:25:44 05/23/03 Fri
        Well, actually Dune could never exist either -- IDAHO, 22:00:57 05/23/03 Fri
        Still Dune is a future if only a fantastic future. -- Crysknife, 22:36:41 05/23/03 Fri
        Well...if energy is everywhere...what about the force -- IDAHO, 01:25:58 05/24/03 Sat
        Lighten up? Not when it comes to Dune. -- Crysknife, 09:25:25 05/24/03 Sat
        Your analogies don't make sense becasue they are NOT closer to reality -- IDAHO, 14:22:40 05/24/03 Sat
        OH GOD STOP!!!!! Are you even listening to yourself??? -- theButterfly, 17:59:21 05/24/03 Sat
        How about this as an explanation..and GOD listen to YOURSELF -- IDAHO, 20:33:29 05/24/03 Sat
        Ah, thank you. -- theButterfly, 19:57:52 05/25/03 Sun
        Thanks for the thoughtful reply, but I think I made my points already so I don't need to rehash. Peace (NT) -- IDAHO, 22:22:24 05/25/03 Sun
        What the worms eat -- AntiPaul, 06:46:28 05/26/03 Mon
        But how does the worm metabolize that? (NT) -- IDAHO, 14:17:12 05/26/03 Mon
        Silica (Any chemistry majors out there?) -- AnitPaul, 15:54:37 05/26/03 Mon
        Frank Herbert on Ecology...How about the later novels? -- IDAHO, 17:21:32 05/26/03 Mon
        Not knocking Pre's -- AnitPaul, 17:59:19 05/26/03 Mon
        Too each his own, that's perfectly valid. (NT) -- IDAHO, 18:27:34 05/26/03 Mon
        Idaho -- Crysknife, 18:17:42 05/26/03 Mon
        I was joking about The Star Wars Star Trek travel -- IDAHO, 18:36:26 05/26/03 Mon
- Pre-spice space travel -- Ghanima, 16:25:28 05/27/03 Tue
  - Ghanima -- Crysknife, 17:57:53 05/27/03 Tue
    - OK guy -- Ghanima, 18:35:20 05/27/03 Tue
      - Well... -- Crysknife, 21:28:00 05/27/03 Tue
        Let's see, it's accepted, it makes sense, it fits, it's canon you are wrong, and that's it. (NT) -- IDAHO, 00:43:11 05/28/03 Wed
        baahaaaaaah <-- that's supposed to be sheep sounds (NT) -- theButterfly, 14:15:47 05/28/03 Wed
        it's not accepted by me, it doesn't fit, I don't consider it canon and most of all it doesn't make sense. Peace. (NT) -- Crysknife, 15:02:42 05/28/03 Wed
        Well you are in the minority, which kinda makes it canon. (NT) -- IDAHO, 18:17:00 05/28/03 Wed
        If you accept the abomination then you can call it canon. Time will tell if I stay in the minority. (NT) -- Crysknife, 20:29:51 05/28/03 Wed
        This is my last post, but you call it abomination, I call it "pre-born"!!!!!!! (NT) -- IDAHO, 00:48:26 05/29/03 Thu
        Just as Alia was a pre-born and an abomination, so is the B.Jihad!!!!....This is fun! (NT) -- Crysknife, 13:13:42 05/29/03 Thu
        okay, so I lied, but Ghanima and Leto II weren't abonimation and neither is BJ. (NT) -- IDAHO, 13:21:25 05/29/03 Thu