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While non-cannon (with the writing of the prequels), from The Dune Encyclopedia ... > The earliest history of the native inhabitants of Arrakis indicates that
by shagie 3y ago
While non-cannon (with the writing of the prequels), from The Dune Encyclopedia ...
> The earliest history of the native inhabitants of Arrakis indicates that they were the sole remnant of a people known as the Zensunni Wanderers, originally followers of a "prophet" named Maometh, circa 1381 E.G. The Fremen broke away from the main sect to establish their own religion based on an ultraconservative notion of living life according to "the ways of the fathers." Given the Fremen's roots in such a religion and the particularly life- threatening environment that Arrakis afforded them, the Fremen developed a set of cultural institutions unique in their perfect balance between the philosophical world view demanded by imposed Fremen faith and the harsh reality imposed by Arrakis's nature. These institutions remained stable for thousands of years and are significantly changed by only two events. The first was the arrival of Pardot Kynes as the first planetologist of Arrakis. The second was the transfer of the governance of Arrakis from the House Harkonnen to House Atreides in 10190 and the subsequent emergence of Paul Atreides as Paul Maud'Dib. Kynes expanded the cultures of the Fremen to include the hope for a second flowering of Arrakis; Paul Maud'Dib forever changed that culture, thus, for all intents, the ancient culture of the Fremen ceased with his rise to power.
And an example from first page of the section on Fremen Language: https://i.imgur.com/jiRQNVv.png https://i.imgur.com/jiRQNVv.png and a bit from the history of the language: https://i.imgur.com/QQq5gfO.png https://i.imgur.com/QQq5gfO.png
- euroderf 3y agoI've reviewed this kind of Dune background material and I still don't quite get how the Zensunnis and others managed to get to other star systems before the advent of FTL. I've seen no mention of (for example) generation ships.
- shagie 3y agoIn this timeline... FTL was discovered in 13004 BG (before guild) and 12200 BG was "The Empire of Ten Worlds" followed by 11200 BG which was "The Empire of a Thousand Worlds" It wasn't until 7593 BG when I.V. Holtzman was born. 5022 BG was "The Empire of Ten Thousand Worlds". The order of the mentats was established in 1234 AG. In 2800 AG you have the beginnings of the Zensunni Migration. 7193 AG was Zensunni on Rossak buying passage from the space guild to Arrakis. Paul Atreides was born in 10175 AG. --- FTL existed before the guild, it was mediated by computers and wasn't entirely safe. There are about 10,000 years between the founding of the guild (and safe non-computer FTL) and the events of Dune. --- A page from the start of the timeline of the Zensunni Wanderers history - https://i.imgur.com/Xw8qbpO.png https://i.imgur.com/Xw8qbpO.png
- euroderf 3y ago404 on the imgur
- shagie 3y agoWorks for me... a non-direct link to the .png https://imgur.com/a/vddl6z6 https://imgur.com/a/vddl6z6 If you are interested in it, a number of sources have the pdf online which (as you can see from page numbers) isn't small.
- euroderf 3y agoThanks for this info !