Dune
For people new to the Dune universe, ok it’s epic. It’s massy. It’s a saga. It’s futuristic. It’s about the dunes of Arrakis, the spice planet. It’s about taking control of your destiny and fighting off invaders. In a personal sense, it’s about reclaiming your lands. It’s about independence and sadly war as well. War always happens when you have one side wanting to fight for what’s right and one side fighting for what the other side owns. Here, the first side happens to be the Fremen, the natives of the planet Arrakis, who wish to live peacefully and freely in their native desert and the other side happens to be the Harkonnen, wild, horrible people nothing less than invaders.
It might feel as though the Emperor removed the Harkonnen because he felt something for the Freemen, but that is not true. He just wanted to make their successors, the Atreides a target, and hence the Atreides house was called upon to take care of Arrakis.
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What followed was a heartbreaking set of events set in a dune..with giant sandworms threatening to engulf everything, traitors who will sell you out, from futuristic technology to space travel, what doesn’t Dune have, one wonders. It’s quite a spectacle indeed.
