Re: Chapter 02
Posted: 09 Mar 2018 11:15
Well. That is one complete answer. Thank you.
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I exist only to serve.Serkanner wrote:Well. That is one complete answer. Thank you.
Better question would be "what is CHOAM"? Based on what we learn in Dune it would seem to be an organization running in parallel with the Landsraad, the one being the economic side of the Empire and the other being the mercantile side. In reality there's probably not that much distinction between the players in each, where the strongest in one would be the strongest in the other (in the case of this book, the Emperor). One exception might well be in the cases of the Atreides and Harkonnens, where the Harkonnens have become powerful in CHOAM but perhaps not as influential in the Landsraad, whereas the Atreides aren't that wealthy and so not that influential in CHOAM but are conversely very influential in the Landsraad.distrans wrote:has anyone every done a treatise on dune from the economic perspective?
I take it we don't know much about CHOAM and the laandsrad...
its puzzling to me that they could control spice mining for decades and NOT be among the top players in the realm
Are you asking why the Arrakis fiefdom was taken away from the Baron and given to the Atreides?distrans wrote:lets put it this way
the imperium was satisfied with the way the barron did his business there for decades
hard to believe that suddenly he failed short to some metric he was being judged on
Because the emperor held a majority of CHOAM holdings plus the Sardaukar and the Great Houses that backed him. Spice, allthough very important, was a very small part of CHOAM.distrans wrote:no,
I'm asking why having the mining right wasn't the next best thing to being the emperor
81 at the beginning of the book.oh, and I'm curious as to how old the baron was at the time?
Apparently the two families had been feuding since the Battle of Corrin.distrans wrote:did the baron inherit his animosity toward the atreides?