#Dune 2000 worm attack how to#

Now I have an excuse! If you've long wished to revisit Dune II: Battle For Arrakis, the beloved grandparent of the RTS as we know it, but feared its archaic nature and appearance would break your heart, Dune Legacy is the answer.īetter mouse, squad and camera controls, high resolution support and compatibility are what Legacy primarily does: it's not exactly dragging the old dear into the 21st century, but it's enough to make a profound difference. I spent a few hours playing Dune Legacy, a fan-made remake - well, more modernisation than remake - in work time a while back, couldn't think of a great excuse to write about it then felt horribly guilty. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Nor would he have the necessary grip on the Bene Gesserit to prepare them, culturally, for the Honored Matres threat and their own spice source after his death.Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. If it were possible before Leto 2's modifications, we'd end up with a very different story that wouldn't explore the hydro-despotic themes as thoroughly. So if the God Emperor's Golden Path was always Herbert's end-game, for plot reasons it was necessary to keep the single, well-secured source in place. It's like reducing oil reserves, everywhere, abruptly and letting post-peak oil play out: famine and diaspora and totalitarian control over its course. He even shrunk the source with his terra-forming, confining the worms to a smaller range and bringing spice production to a trickle. He weaned the galaxy off its spice dependence - and again this was only possible because he held the single source, the only font of galactic power. Hydraulic despotism is precisely the means by which Leto 2 'preyed' on galactic civilization, enforcing peace to guide the evolution of genetic and cultural traits that would resist the totalitarian despotism of prescient beings (i.e. Until someone else invents Navigation, like the Ixian technophiles eventually do, and then the chaos repeats.

The Guild would probably win in the end, because they have the only Navigators (the new secured source), checked by Landsraad nukes.

Nobody wants large-scale war if it can be avoided, even Paul.

#Dune 2000 worm attack how to#

Had someone figured out how to do it, the transplant may be proof of principle for another, and another, and pretty soon each faction has their own Spice source and is no longer dependent on CHOAM and the Empire's hand on the valve. One thing clear in the Dune universe is that seat of power is precarious, and any major change introduces unknowns ripe for manipulation and power grabs. A second source would put Corrino in danger of assault on two fronts, possibly by the whole Landsraad if they can even work together, maybe even with authorization to Nuke the Emperor's secure source or his Sardukar training prison planet to dismantle his defenses. No army could land (unless by Guild conspiracy), let alone carry out an effective assault. Upsetting the balance could prompt the overthrow of House Corrino by another Major House.Ĭorrino assumed the harsh nature of Arrakis and mutual dependence on the Guild would prevent the loss of their singular font of power. And the Guild gets to have power over it in transit. You might think of a worm transplant as building new factories, distributing production, but its more like OPEC owning ALL the oil fields and then creating renewable oil fields in less secure territory.

Think of an upriver nation damming water to keep downriver nations under their thumb. If there were more than a single, well defended font of the vital resource, House Corrino couldn't measure out the release to enforce its power. It runs on a system of hydraulic despotism. Don't forget the political and economic ecology of the empire. There are pragmatic reasons beyond the practical ones.