{"id":9168,"date":"2020-11-19T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=9168"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T20:55:23","slug":"paul-atreides-personal-ornithopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2020\/paul-atreides-personal-ornithopter","title":{"rendered":"Paul Atreides’ Personal Ornithopter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Frank Herbert uses description very rarely in his writing. He announces things with nouns and shows consequences of actions without describing the objects or behaviors. It leaves a lot of room for interpretation, which is, I think, one of the reasons his books have been so resoundingly popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the objects he never describes are the ornithopters that fill the Known Universe in 10,191. They’re not just practical vehicles; they seem to be a status symbol, and the Atreides are proud of their mastery of the form, both in their hand-manufacture (automated devices being under millennia of ban) and in their handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is my interpretation of Paul’s ornithopter, used to flee Arakeen with Jessica, as the Harkonnens retake their stronghold there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Because Paul is aristocracy, of course<\/em> his mom and dad gave him one for his birthday. He’s 15 when the first book starts, but is already an experienced flier. I decided that 13 seemed like a good coming-of-age time for a society, so this has been his personal hoopty for two years already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s based on the Caladan frigate bird<\/a> he captured and raised, naming it<\/a> Panemorfi (“Beautiful Shape” in Caladanian dialect) and handcrafted by Atreides craftspeople using Tleilaxu specialists to precisely model its lifelike motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frank Herbert uses description very rarely in his writing. He announces things with nouns and shows consequences of actions without describing the objects or behaviors. It leaves a lot of room for interpretation, which is, I think, one of the reasons his books have been so resoundingly popular. Among the objects he never describes are … Continue reading “Paul Atreides’ Personal Ornithopter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":9171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}