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MUAD'DIB!!! (how do we make giant sand worms on mars?)

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Sat, 2013-09-21 08:20

Baalbamoth Baalbamoth's picture

MUAD'DIB!!! (how do we make giant sand worms on mars?)

From Sunward... The sufis were an Islamic sect on old Earth, but here they ain’t precisely that. They got a strong belief in helping others, and they believe the trials of living in the Martian desert purify the soul and bring the heart closer to their God. I don’t hold with religion, but the sufis make me proud to be human, while proving what a crock of shit the corp way of life is. You approach them peaceable, they’re the most hospitable people you’ll ever meet—pretty amazing for people living off barren soil in a frozen desert. I got lucky enough to watch one of their dances once, and it was probably the third most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen on this world. Piss them off, though, and you got yourself a deadly enemy. Where the makers got clever tech on their side, the sufis have … something. Firewall’s been wanting to check out the rumor that a sufi clan roaming the north edge of the TQZ picked up the Watts-MacLeod virus and shared it among their people, but so far no one’s had the temerity to bang on their door and ask them where they’re hiding their asyncs. Since Im running in mars and had been doing some research I ran into this... north side of the TQZ... Fremen battling TITAN remnants.... HELL YES! now... how do we make sandworms?

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Sat, 2013-09-21 10:39

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

Yes, this sounds fun! I can

Yes, this sounds fun! I can see some potential for crossovers or stealing ideas from Red Red Red - false prophets, cunning sabotage, guerilla warfare. "Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people." What if the Maker is a TITAN? "Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?" An entire group of asyncs would likely be amazingly, dangerously synchronized. "I give you the desert chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity."

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Sat, 2013-09-21 15:52

nizkateth

Ride the Worm

Is it wrong that my first thought was "once you make sandworms... can we sleeve into them?"

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Sun, 2013-09-22 03:03

Baalbamoth Baalbamoth's picture

well I figured

if we can make giant ass space whales flying around the sun... why not red sand worms on mars? it would fit right in with the teraforming (eating nanites and tearing up soil to put more dust in the atmosphere and increase the melt rate) why not sand worms? but this all gave me an idea, so the hollywood/bollywood of the EP setting is Elysium right? not far away from that TQZ, some producer decided to re-do Herbert's Dune as an XP, complete with giant sand worm podmorphs, and XP stars galore. BUT the sufi asyncs get offended by the show believing that the producers are really making fun of them and their divine struggle, so they decide to steal the worms and attack Elysium. or the worms are hacked by TITAN remnants and turn on the XP stars/crew and it is up to the Sufi's and the players to save them. got anything better?

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Sun, 2013-09-22 10:20

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

I like the XP idea, since it

I like the XP idea, since it can tie in with the past history of troubled Dune movies - consider not just David Lynch's trouble, but the totally crazy Jodorowsky project (Salvador Dali as emperor! HR Giger as designer!) So one possibility might be a totally postmodern train-wreck as the already problematic XP project (egocentric actors on drugs, neurocosmeticians trying to fake spice trances in the sensorium, insane director, ruthless management types, misbehaving tech) meets the desert, TITANs and sufis. To make things complete, add delusions that this really *is* Dune. Of course, to make things truly interesting, make sure things occur that really look like those delusions are true... Very different from the original thread idea, but could be fun.

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Sun, 2013-09-22 18:01

Baalbamoth Baalbamoth's picture

I could vary easily

see a new form of petal drug that besides convincing you that your on Arakis gives the effects of Psi-Opener drugs as an easter egg... "the spice is life"

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