List of technology in the Dune universe

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Technology is a key aspect of the fictional setting of the Dune series of science fiction novels written by Frank Herbert, and derivative works. Herbert's concepts and inventions have been analyzed and deconstructed in at least one book, The Science of Dune (2007). Herbert's originating 1965 novel Dune is popularly considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time,[1] and is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.[1][2] Dune and its five sequels by Herbert explore the complex and multilayered interactions of politics, religion, ecology and technology, among other themes.

The

computers and artificial intelligence of any kind. This prohibition is a key influence on the nature of Herbert's fictional setting.[3] In Dune, ten thousand years after this jihad, its enduring commandment remains, "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."[4]

Atomics

Atomics is the term used to refer to nuclear weapons in the Dune universe.[5] Like real-world nuclear weapons, atomics presumably derive their destructive force from nuclear reactions of fission or fusion, and Herbert notes that "radiation lingers" after their use.[5] However, the author never delves into the specifics of the technology or explores in detail how it may have evolved by the time of Dune's far-future setting.

In the initial Dune novels, the Great Houses of the

Great Convention, the "universal truce enforced under the power balance maintained by the Guild, the Great Houses, and the Imperium".[6] Paul Atreides notes in Dune that "The language of the Great Convention is clear enough: Use of atomics against humans shall be cause for planetary obliteration."[5] The atomics themselves act as a military deterrent—any House which violates the Great Convention flagrantly (such as using atomics openly in warfare) faces massive retaliation from any number of the other Houses.[5] As Paul notes via epigraph in Dune Messiah (1969), "any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetary bases of fifty or more other Families".[7]

A stone burner is a conventional weapon that uses atomics for fuel. Whether they are covered by the Great Convention is discussed several times in the series, with the opinion that while they "skirt the intentions of the law" they do not warrant retaliation. The explosion and radiation can be precisely adjusted depending on the desired effect.[7] Stone burners emit "J-Rays", a form of radiation that destroys the eye tissue of anyone surviving the initial radiation blast.[7] If of sufficient power, a stone burner can burn its way into the core of a planet, destroying it:

Paul remained silent, thinking what this weapon implied. Too much fuel in it and it'd cut its way into the planet's core. Dune's molten level lay deep, but the more dangerous for that. Such pressures released and out of control might split a planet, scattering lifeless bits and pieces through space.[7]

The original series

In Dune, Paul uses an atomic device on the surface of Arrakis to blast a pass through the Shield Wall, a desert mountain range protecting the planet's capital. He considers this act to be in accordance with the Great Convention because the atomics are not used against humans, but rather against "a natural feature of the desert".[5] A stone burner is used in an attempt to assassinate Paul in Dune Messiah; he survives but is blinded for the rest of his life.[7] In God Emperor of Dune (1981), the God Emperor Leto II notes that since his 3,500-year reign began he has "searched out all of the Family atomics and removed them to a safe place".[8]

Prequels

In the

Sardaukar army, Vernius ignites a stone burner to destroy himself and as many of the Sardaukar as he can.[9]

The

Omnius using atomics. "Pulse atomics" calibrated for use against the gel circuitry of the thinking machines are also used at the end of the war to systematically wipe out every single machine-controlled planet.[10]
It is this action, and the millions of human slaves who are killed in it, which ultimately leads to the ban on atomic warfare in the Great Convention. It also contributes to the development of the feud between the Harkonnens and Atreides.

Axlotl tank

For the real world amphibian, see Axolotl.

Axlotl tanks are a fictional biological technology in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. Axlotl technology is also mentioned in Herbert's novels Destination: Void and The Jesus Incident but not elaborated upon.

A

artificial uteri created by transforming women into biological factories.[11] Later in the series, the Tleilaxu scientists also use the axlotl tanks to replicate the spice melange, previously only available on the desert planet Arrakis where it is created naturally as part of the life cycle of giant sandworms.[11]

The original series

The tanks are briefly mentioned in Dune Messiah (1969) as the source of the Duncan Idaho ghola.[7][a] Their nature is a well-guarded Tleilaxu secret. During his 3500-year reign which ends in God Emperor of Dune (1981), Leto II purchases countless Idaho gholas produced for him in the tanks.[8]

Within the 1500 years between the events of God Emperor of Dune and Heretics of Dune (1984), the Tleilaxu discover an artificial method of producing the spice melange in their axlotl tanks as well.[11] Some melange users, like the Bene Gesserit, prefer the natural melange of Arrakis to the Tleilaxu substitute, claiming increased potency.

In Heretics of Dune,

Darwi Odrade, theorizes that the axlotl tanks may be, in fact, "surrogate mothers"—Tleilaxu females somehow transformed.[11]
Soon, the current Duncan ghola recalls his repeated "births" from the tanks:

The axlotl tanks! He remembered emerging time after time: bright lights and padded mechanical hands. The hands rotated him and, in the unfocused blurs of the newborn, he saw a great mound of female flesh—monstrous in her almost immobile grossness…a maze of dark tubes linked her body to giant metal containers.[11]

In

Scytale is coerced into revealing the means of creating the tanks to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.[12]

Sequels

In

Rebecca, a "wild" Reverend Mother, volunteers herself for the process.[13][14]

Prelude to Dune

In the

ajidamal using axlotl technology; the best results are gained by using a Bene Gesserit sister to create an axlotl tank. However, the project ultimately fails.[9]

Cymek

A cymek is a type of

Legends of Dune prequel trilogy (2002–2004) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. The only organic part of a cymek is its brain; in the series, living humans willingly have their brains transplanted into large mechanized bodies with the intent of extending life indefinitely.[10] The technology is later revived in the prequel novel Mentats of Dune
(2014).

Legends of Dune

Over 11,000 years before the events of Frank Herbert's

Xerxes.[10]

Ten years into their reign, their leader Tlaloc is killed in a freak accident. Realizing their mortality and limited lifespans, they seek a way to extend their lives. Juno is inspired by the

Synchronized Worlds" to become neo-cymeks, footsoldiers who could more fully understand human strategy and thought processes than machines.[10]

A small group of worlds, united as the

Mentats, and the Bene Gesserit.[10]

Great Schools of Dune

In Mentats of Dune (2014), a group of new cymeks are created by the human Dr. Ptolemy using the brains of failed

Guild Navigators. Funded by Josef Venport as a counter to Manford Torondo and his fanatical mobs of anti-technology Butlerians, these cymeks are more advanced than their predecessors; a team of them manages to destroy a sandworm on Arrakis
, though they are destroyed themselves. Ptolemy himself later willingly undergoes the surgery to have his brain placed in a cymek.

Face Dancer

Face Dancers are a fictional servant

Hedley Tuek: "Humming sounds like the noises of angry insects came from his mouth, a modulated thing that clearly was some kind of language."[11]

Original series

In

concubine Chani, in exchange for his abdication. Paul refuses, and kills Scytale.[7]

Over 3,500 years later in

Daniel and Marty resemble Face Dancers, but atypically autonomous ones.[12] Daniel and Marty later confirm that they are independent Face Dancers, noting "[The Tleilaxu] gave us the power to absorb the memories and experiences of other people ... The Masters should've known we would gather enough of them one day to make our own decisions about our own future."[12]

Sequels

In

Legends of Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Anderson.[13]

In the series finale,

Ix and its technology production, Khrone manipulates the Spacing Guild and New Sisterhood, setting them up for disastrous failure in their final battle against the thinking machine forces of Omnius. When Khrone asserts dominance over even the machine empire, a smug Erasmus activates a fail-safe built into all enhanced Face Dancers, instantly killing Khrone and all of his minions across the universe.[14]

Ghola

"Ghola" redirects here. For other uses, see Ghola (disambiguation).

A ghola is a fictional humanoid in the

Tleilaxu;[7][15] in later novels the process is also used by the Bene Gesserit.[12]

The first ghola featured in the series—

control their creations by forcing them into a hypnotic state with some predefined sound (often a specific humming or whistling noise) that has been pre-conditioned into each ghola.[b][c][d]

Csilla Csori analyzes the concept of recording and restoring memories in the essay "Memory (and the Tleilaxu) Makes the Man" in The Science of Dune (2007).[17]

The original series

Before the events of Dune: Messiah, gholas are merely physical copies without the memories of their original incarnations. The ghola Hayt is programmed by the Tleilaxu to kill Emperor

post-hypnotic suggestion. The attempt fails but, as hoped by the Tleilaxu, the stress of attempting to kill someone who was deeply loved in the ghola's previous life breaks the mental barrier between the ghola's consciousness and the life memories of the original. Hayt recovers the full memories of the original Duncan Idaho. The Tleilaxu are now able to offer Paul a similar ghola "resurrection" of his deceased beloved Chani to gain leverage over him, but he refuses.[7]

In God Emperor of Dune, over Leto II's 3,500-year reign he has, as constant companions, a series of Duncan gholas with restored memories of the original Idaho but not the memories of the previous gholas. They are perfectly reconstructed incarnations made from a few cells, created as needed in the time span of one to two years. In this novel, one of the Duncans recalls how, as a blank ghola, he was tasked to kill a

prescient or metaphysical awareness.[12]

Though intense psychological trauma is the key to unlocking the memories of a ghola, the actual situation contrived to accomplish this is specific to each individual. When military genius

Darwi Odrade.[e] His former memories are unlocked using sexual imprinting.[12]

The discovery of how to reawaken a ghola has tremendous consequences for the Tleilaxu Masters themselves; they subsequently use the technology of axlotl tanks and memory recovery to grant themselves effective immortality. Every Master is "recreated" upon his death with recovered memories, accumulating many generations of knowledge and experience and permitting planning on a timespan of millennia.[11]

Dune games

There are also mentions of gholas in the

Emperor
to claim the Golden Lion Throne, with the Executrix as the true leaders behind the so-called "puppet Emperor".

Heighliner

A heighliner is a type of fictional starship used for interstellar travel in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. These enormous spaceships are the "major cargo carrier of the Spacing Guild's transportation system".[18]

Duke Leto Atreides speaks of them in Dune
(1965):

A Heighliner is truly big. Its hold will tuck all our frigates and transports into a little corner — we'll be just a small part of the ship's manifest.[5]

Heighliner operation requires a

neutral territory and all acts of war aboard heighliners carry stiff penalties.[5]
Leto notes that while they are traveling to Arrakis it is quite likely they will share cargo space with Harkonnen vessels, but neither will be aggressive to each other for fear of losing shipping privileges.

It is mentioned in

Ix.[9] During the events described in the 2001 prequel Dune: House Corrino, a heighliner is expertly spacefolded into a cavern under the surface of Ix, incapacitating an occupying army during the Atreides-led liberation of the planet. In the novel, heighliners are noted to be more than 20 kilometers long.[20]

Holtzman effect

The Holtzman effect is a fictional scientific phenomenon in the

Legends of Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (2002–2004).[10]

Holtzman shield

In Dune, the Holtzman effect has been adapted to produce personal defensive shields which permit penetration only by objects that move below a pre-set velocity.[22][f][23] Paul Atreides notes in Dune, "In shield fighting, one moves fast on defense, slow on attack ... The shield turns the fast blow, admits the slow kindjal".[5]

The interaction of a

Honored Matres. By the time of God Emperor of Dune (1981), God Emperor Leto II has banned shields throughout his empire "to avoid such explosive interactions."[8]

The vibrations of an active shield will drive a

ersatz bomb.[27]

Holtzman drive

The effect is used in this case to fold space at the quantum level, allowing the

Ixian scientists develop mechanical replacements for Guild Navigators.[11]

Kevin R. Grazier analyzes the concepts of folding space and faster-than-light travel in the essay "Cosmic Origami" in The Science of Dune (2007).[28]

Suspensors

Hovering devices called suspensors utilize the "secondary (low-drain) phase of a Holtzman field generator" to nullify

gravity "within certain limits prescribed by relative mass and energy consumption."[29] Suspensors are used in chairs, tables, and structures that are too massive to be physically sound, among other uses. In Dune, the grotesquely obese Baron Vladimir Harkonnen utilizes suspensor belts and harnesses to buoy his flesh and allow him to walk.[g] In Dune, Jessica theorizes that suspensors, like shields, attract sandworms.[26]

Kevin R. Grazier analyzes the concept of anti-gravity technology in the essay "Suspensor of Disbelief" in The Science of Dune (2007).[30]

Glowglobes

A varied use of the Holtzman effect is the glowglobe. This device is a small glowing sphere that floats gracefully above a surface like a portable, personal sun, and is typically tuned to a yellowish color.[5] Herbert describes it as a "suspensor-buoyed illuminating device, self-powered (usually by organic batteries)."[31]

Ixian Probe

An Ixian Probe is a fictional device in Frank Herbert's Dune universe used to capture the thoughts of a person (living or dead) for analysis.[32] Ixian Probes are mentioned in Herbert's Heretics of Dune (1984).[32]

As described in Heretics of Dune, the probe is an

T-Probe for the first time, he believes it is an Ixian Probe.[11] The T-Probe consists of a hood with a series of electrodes attached to the skull, controlled by an operator; the notable difference is that shere has no effect against a T-Probe.[11]

Lasgun

A lasgun (pronounced

laser gun, in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of the 1965 novel Dune
, Herbert provides the following definition:

LASGUN: continuous-wave laser projector. Its use as a weapon is limited in a

subatomic fusion) created when its beam intersects a shield.[24]

The interaction of a lasgun beam and a Holtzman field results in

cutteray is described in Dune as a "Short-range version of a lasgun used mostly as a cutting tool and surgeon's scalpel".[18]

No-chamber/No-ship

A no-ship, from the cover of Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)

A no-chamber is a fictional

Guild Navigator.[11]

The original series

In God Emperor of Dune,

ghola technology–designed to be irresistible to Leto.[8] The no-room is an improvement upon a device the Ixians had previously created for Leto to record his thoughts into a written journal and hide them from prescient vision.[8]

In

Famine Times were very disruptive and before that there were all those millennia of the Tyrant ... When the Harkonnens kept their heads down or lost them."[11]

No-ships are in use at the time of Heretics of Dune; like no-chambers, anything inside a no-ship is hidden from prescient vision and other means of detection, and the ship itself is invisible to sight or photography.

Sheeana and other passengers on the no-ship.[12]

In Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune it is suggested that certain characters of

T-Probe.[12] Teg's subsequent ghola duplicate also retains that unique ability after his memories are re-awakened.[12]

Sequels

In

final battle they know is coming against the Unknown Enemy.[13][14]

Prelude to Dune

In the

Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the creation of the Harkonnen no-globe is attributed to a man named Chobyn.[9] He invents the technology and builds the no-globe for Baron Vladimir Harkonnen immediately prior to the events of Dune (1965).[9] However, Chobyn is killed and the technology lost[9] until it is reinvented by the Ixians millennia later during the reign of Leto II.[8]

Ornithopter

An ornithopter (from Greek roots ornithos-[35] "bird" and pteron "wing"[36]) is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.

In the Dune universe, ornithopters (or 'thopters) are one of the primary modes of transportation on Arrakis. Herbert describes ornithopters as "Aircraft capable of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds" in his 1965 novel Dune.[18] The craft achieve takeoff primarily though the beat of their wings, with jet power assisting in propulsion and stabilization:

Leto fed power to the wings, felt them cup and dip—once, twice. They were airborne in ten meters, wings feathered tightly and afterjets thrusting them upward in a steep, hissing climb.[5]

The wings themselves, consisting of "delicate metal interleavings", are adjustable in length through a "retractor bar" or manually.[5] They are fully extended when the jetpods are used little or not at all:

The Duke kicked on the jet brakes. The ship bucked as its tail pods whispered to silence. Stub wings elongated, cupped the air. The craft became a full 'thopter as the Duke banked it, holding the wings to a gentle beat.[5]

The wings are shortened when more jet thrust is used or the 'thopter uses the "jet-boost" alternative mode of takeoff, and tip to assist in braking.[5]

In the

Sci Fi Channel miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, the craft have wings that appear to incorporate tiltrotor technology. In the 2021 film adaptation, ornithopters are depicted with four or eight foldable, flapping wings on either side, resembling those of a dragonfly,[37] a design that director Denis Villeneuve had conceived when he read the novel at a young age.[38] Villeneuve's VFX team used actual helicopters as placeholders, which they later replaced with computer-generated ornithopters. Two 12-ton practical ornithopters were built and taken to Budapest and the Jordanian desert for filming. VFX production supervisor Paul Lambert explained, "These machines had a fully hydraulic ramp to open and close, and were lifted by cranes for take off and landing. CG wings were added in post."[39]

Stillsuit

stillsuits in Dune
(2021)

A stillsuit is a fictional body suit in Frank Herbert's Dune universe, worn by the indigenous Fremen of the desert planet Arrakis to maintain their body moisture in the harsh environment.[40]

Description

As described in the 1965 novel

Liet-Kynes
describes the stillsuit in Dune:

It's basically a micro-sandwich—a high-efficiency filter and heat-exchange system. The skin-contact layer's porous. Perspiration passes through it, having cooled the body ... near-normal evaporation process. The next two layers ... include heat exchange filaments and salt precipitators. Salt's reclaimed. Motions of the body, especially breathing and some osmotic action provide the pumping force. Reclaimed water circulates to catchpockets from which you draw it through this tube in the clip at your neck ... Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads. In the open desert, you wear this filter across your face, this tube in the nostrils with these plugs to ensure a tight fit. Breathe in through the mouth filter, out through the nose tube. With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day".[5]

Due to its scarcity on Arrakis, water and its preservation are sacred to the Fremen.[40]

Analysis

In his essay "Stillsuit" in

Crock-Pot ... However, engineering solutions can be envisioned for all the suit's shortcomings."[41]

T-Probe

A T-Probe is a fictional device in Frank Herbert's Dune universe used to capture the thoughts of a person (living or dead) for analysis.[42] T-Probes appear or are referred to in Herbert's Heretics of Dune (1984) and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985),[11][12] as well as the sequels Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.[43][44]

As described in Heretics of Dune, the probe is a non-

ghola in Chapterhouse Dune.[12]

Weirding Module

A Weirding Module is a fictional sonic weapon introduced in and specific to

Stilgar
at their first encounter.

Lynch is said to have adapted the weirding way into the Weirding Module because he did not like the idea of "

Muad'Dib
", as a battle cry; in the film, the Fremen are surprised to find that saying "Muad'Dib" is a powerful trigger for the Weirding Module.

The Weirding Module appears in the computer games Dune (1992) and Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001), and the concept is adapted into "sonic tanks" for the games Dune II (1992) and Dune 2000 (1998). There is no reference to this technology in the original novels.

Other technologies

In Dune Messiah, the ghola Hayt is provided by the

slig is a hybrid livestock animal—a cross between a large slug
and a Terran pig—first mentioned in Heretics of Dune and considered a culinary delicacy. Despite being the producers of sligs, the Tleilaxu themselves do not consume the animals, having designed them to facilitate what they see as the degrading decadence and spiritual bankruptcy of all cultures but their own.

Herbert's series of Dune novels have numerous other technologically advanced devices. In Dune (1965), water is scarce on the

filmbook is a shigawire imprint, used for training and education, which carries a mnemonic pulse that imprints information and corresponding images in the reader's mind.[18]

Herbert mentions other unnamed technologies in the Dune series. In Dune, the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Mohiam "tests" young Paul Atreides using a box that inflicts pain through "nerve induction". It is described as "a green metal cube about fifteen centimeters on a side", with one open side revealing a blackness so dark that no light penetrates it. Paul is forced to place his hand into the box and not remove it until Mohiam allows him. He experiences first coldness, tingling, then itching, followed by "the faintest burning" which soon intensifies to the point that "he could feel skin curling black on that agonized hand, the flesh crisping and dropping away until only charred bones remained". The pain stops, and when he is permitted to remove his hand, it is unmarked and unharmed.[5] This device is later referred to as the "agony box" in Heretics of Dune, and is noted to be used for interrogation as well.[11] Carol Hart analyzes the concept of inflicting pain without injury in the essay "The Black Hole of Pain" in The Science of Dune (2007).[46]

In God Emperor of Dune (1981),

Anteac
writes a message to be sent to her Sisterhood:

On Anteac's lap lay a small square of inky black about ten millimeters on a side and no more than three millimeters thick. She wrote upon this square with a glittering needle—one word upon another, all of them absorbed into the square. The completed message would be impressed upon the nerve receptors of an acolyte-messenger's eyes, latent there until they could be replayed at the Chapter House.[8]

In Heretics of Dune, Reverend Mother

hypnobong in use on the street, witnessing a passerby lean into a concave basin and then lift his face "with a shudder ... staggering slightly, his eyes glazed". She notes that the device is "outlawed on all of the more civilized worlds".[11]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Both mentions of the tanks are spelled "axolotl" in Dune Messiah, but Herbert spells the term "axlotl" in all later novels in the series.
  2. Hayt to induce him to kill Paul Atreides
    : "He began to hum, a keening, whining monotonous theme, repeated over and over…Hayt stiffened, experiencing odd pains that played up and down his spine…The sound made Hayt think of ancient rituals, folk memories, old words and customs, half-forgotten meanings in lost mutterings."
  3. Hedley Tuek
    : "Humming sounds like the noises of angry insects came from his mouth, a modulated thing that clearly was some kind of language."
  4. Scytale
    sees an opportunity to control/influence the Duncan Idaho ghola and thus effect his escape from the Bene Gesserit when he thinks: Somehow, I must contrive it that Idaho and I meet intimately. There's always the whistling language we impress on every ghola.
  5. ^ Though the replacement Teg is called a ghola, Herbert notes that he is technically a clone because the cells used to create him had been taken from the original just prior to his death, rather than from a corpse.
  6. ^ Charles L. Harness uses a similar concept in his 1953 novel Flight into Yesterday.
  7. ^ In both (1984 and 2021) Dune films and the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, the Baron floats or levitates rather than walk on the ground himself.

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