Magic space dust that makes warp drive work only exists on Giant Worm Planet.
Warp drive only works when one of the mysterious navigators eats some, allowing them to “travel without traveling”. (Hint, they’re giant space worms, I can’t remember if this is revealed early in the books or not, but it’s right at the start in the movies).
Space Nazis in charge of worm planet made their emperor mad, so he gave the planet to a different clan.
Space Nazis hated that, so they attempt to sabotage the planet handover.
So do the natives of worm planet.
So do the worms of worm planet.
Worm planet natives win with the help of the “prince” of the clan that took over. Prince of that new clan earns the respect of, and becomes the leader of, the worm planet natives, who collectively fight off the emperor and the space Nazi’s combined forces at the end of book 1.
At the start of Book 2 (12 year time skip) the pince is the emperor of the known universe.
At some point after this he space prince’s son turns into a worm.
Bro spoilers for Children of Dune but we have a spoiler tag:
spoiler
Sandworms are a metamorphosis of groups of sandtrout surrounding and consuming pockets of water. Humans have a good bit of water in them, they can sense it easily in the desert. So he lets himself get ‘consumed’ by sandtrout, using his bene jesserit skills to force his bodies composition to accept it as a symbiosis. It starts out as basically an armored exoskeleton with the durability of a sandworm, and he grows into a much more sandwormy being.
Wormson achieves immortality without freedom so the surviving humans can never be entirely controlled after 3,500 years of controlling humanity himself.
Magic space dust that makes warp drive work only exists on Giant Worm Planet. Warp drive only works when one of the mysterious navigators eats some, allowing them to “travel without traveling”. (Hint, they’re giant space worms, I can’t remember if this is revealed early in the books or not, but it’s right at the start in the movies).
Space Nazis in charge of worm planet made their emperor mad, so he gave the planet to a different clan.
Space Nazis hated that, so they attempt to sabotage the planet handover.
So do the natives of worm planet.
So do the worms of worm planet.
Worm planet natives win with the help of the “prince” of the clan that took over. Prince of that new clan earns the respect of, and becomes the leader of, the worm planet natives, who collectively fight off the emperor and the space Nazi’s combined forces at the end of book 1.
At the start of Book 2 (12 year time skip) the pince is the emperor of the known universe.
At some point after this
hespace prince’s son turns into a worm.You skipped the whole prophecy thing. But….
He becomes a friggin worm!!! How???
No space prince doesn’t become a worm.
Space prince’s son does.
Woah. That’s even more mind boggling! Is that the son he has with his once-lover-turned-concubine-for-political-expediency Chani?
How does a human become a worm?!
Bro spoilers for Children of Dune but we have a spoiler tag:
spoiler
Sandworms are a metamorphosis of groups of sandtrout surrounding and consuming pockets of water. Humans have a good bit of water in them, they can sense it easily in the desert. So he lets himself get ‘consumed’ by sandtrout, using his bene jesserit skills to force his bodies composition to accept it as a symbiosis. It starts out as basically an armored exoskeleton with the durability of a sandworm, and he grows into a much more sandwormy being.
ah shit, I gotta update that, completely spaced on that detail.
Yup. Oddly was just reading up on this.
Wormson achieves immortality without freedom so the surviving humans can never be entirely controlled after 3,500 years of controlling humanity himself.