House Atreides Concerns
Posted: 25 Aug 2010 13:27
I just finished listening to House Atreides (technical second complete read).
While it's fresh in memory - I have a few questions:
Firstly (most important), the Harkonnens scored this super secret no-field tech from a Richesian engineer, right? The engineer explained an adjustment to holtzman fields that allowed the nullentropy effect.
Rabban used a small vessel contained within a no-field to frame the Atreides and smoke some Tleilaxu vessels. Before Rabban did this, it was explicitly explained that a holtzman field (shields, in the particular case) interferes with the foldspace engines, and even disrupts the navigator's prescient trance. HOW CAN I BE TOLD IN DETAIL HOW HOLTZMAN FIELDS DISRUPT ONE ANOTHER IN ONE BREATH, AND YET ONE REMAINS UNDETECTABLE IN ANOTHER?
Secondly, why didn't the Harkonnens use this badass super-tech to smoke Caladan (or even Katain) directly, undetected? As overcomplicated as things in these prequels tend to be without justification of self-sustained substance - its no surprise.
Finally, and not that it matters an iota, with deep respect to the nullentropy tech at Harkonnen hands before Paul was even born, how were the events of the original Dune even possible? How can the Harkonnens be formidable at all at this point, with tech that trumps ALL?
Other immediate concerns appear to have been addressed by others.
While it's fresh in memory - I have a few questions:
Firstly (most important), the Harkonnens scored this super secret no-field tech from a Richesian engineer, right? The engineer explained an adjustment to holtzman fields that allowed the nullentropy effect.
Rabban used a small vessel contained within a no-field to frame the Atreides and smoke some Tleilaxu vessels. Before Rabban did this, it was explicitly explained that a holtzman field (shields, in the particular case) interferes with the foldspace engines, and even disrupts the navigator's prescient trance. HOW CAN I BE TOLD IN DETAIL HOW HOLTZMAN FIELDS DISRUPT ONE ANOTHER IN ONE BREATH, AND YET ONE REMAINS UNDETECTABLE IN ANOTHER?
Secondly, why didn't the Harkonnens use this badass super-tech to smoke Caladan (or even Katain) directly, undetected? As overcomplicated as things in these prequels tend to be without justification of self-sustained substance - its no surprise.
Finally, and not that it matters an iota, with deep respect to the nullentropy tech at Harkonnen hands before Paul was even born, how were the events of the original Dune even possible? How can the Harkonnens be formidable at all at this point, with tech that trumps ALL?
Other immediate concerns appear to have been addressed by others.
