If you’re like me, you have a Pavlovian response to a telephone’s ring. For me I feel the need to end the ringing with a heavy mallet. Why? Because usually its not good news.
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The second part of Battlestar Galactica starts off exactly where the first one ended. There was no credits, no opening music, nothing. Even Lord of the Rings flashes the movie title at the beginning of subsequent films, night two of the... Read more
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Their original purpose was to make the lives of the colonists easier by performing mundane tasks. However as the Cylons gained popularity the colonists required that more work be performed by their mechanical servants.
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Col Tigh is the executive officer aboard the Battlestar Galactica. He’s an old solider who’s grown cynical and jaded to the world. So much so that its cost him his marriage and many of his friends.
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He does everything by the book and then returns the book to the library on time. The only thing more perfect than his military performance, is his ability to plot FTL jumps.
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Lt Sharon Valerii, aka Boomer is the rook (rookie) pilot of the Galactica. She was temporarily assigned to the ship to gain some experience until it was decommissioned and turned into a museum.
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Our story continues in Arrakeen. Despite the fat Baron’s victory, he’s not happy at all. In fact he’s shvitzing out! The Baron is having a nightmare, or rather a prescient vision.
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Originally Gurney Hallackhailed from Geidi Prime, the Harkonnen home world. At an early age Gurney’s sisters was enslaved by the Harkonnens to work in their army brothels.
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Paul Maud-Dib Atreides was one of the most extraordinary humans in all of the Dune universe. Paul was na-Duke to House Atriedes
Read moreWhile not shown much in the Sci Fi mini-series, lasguns are worth mentioning here. Lasguns are the futuristic weapons you knew were missing from the Dune series.
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The hunter-seeker is a deadly tool of assassins. The tiny floating tadpole-like machine is remotely controlled by an operator not far away from the lethal device.
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Saint Alia of the Knife, sister to the God Paul “Maud-Dib” Atreides is acting regent until Paul’s children Leto and Ghanima are of age to rule…
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Melange (me’lange also ma,lanj) n-s, origin uncertain (thought to derive from the ancient Terran Franzh): a. mixture of spice; b. spice of Arrakis (Dune) with geriatric properties first noted by Yanshuph Ashkoko, royal chemist in reign... Read more
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Scytale is a Bene Tlielax Facedancer, and is one of the most intriguing characters in the Dune Saga, he also represents a contradiction that may lead to the answers in the final book.
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Fenring was the former ruler of Arrakis, for the Empire, at the time when it was Harkonnen quasi-fief.
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The origins of the Bene Gesserit are shrouded in mystery. Again believed to originate during the Butlerian Jihad, the Bene Gesserit are an all-female sisterhood devoted to a secret Breeding Program.
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A brilliant, totally evil man, he was once a great warrior and shockingly attractive. All the changed after he raped the Reverend Mother Mohium.
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A stone burner is hands-down the most destructive weapon in the Dune universe, and maybe in all of sci-fi.
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These asteroid sized space ships are the how most people and cargo are transported between the various planets, moons and systems of the Empire.
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Ornithopters, or thopters as they are commonly referred to, are the most common small transport vessels in the Imperium. These ships are capable of carrying 6 passengers, 9 if the back seats are removed.
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No respectable house leader or space craft would be caught without a shield. Shields are the most common protection measures in the Dune universe. They prevent any fast moving object from passing through their field. Shields function because... Read more
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Suspenders is also another common technology employed by humans that utilizes a Holtzman field.
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Troopers are cloned Imperial Commandos. They serve the Dark Clowns (presumably Dark Clowns are the Imperialists).
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