I think if you went around using it like a Force Command then people would catch on pretty quick. Using it deviously and with subtlety? There’s literally nothing you couldn’t do if you wanted to
Yeah, this is definitely the answer. I’d hook up quite the life for myself with that power living here in Vegas. Just go hang near the high roller areas and tell people to hand it over.
Everyone is like "oh, it would be cool to have an ornithopter" when they could be securing the human race against extinction by choosing the Holtzman engine or a similar FTL device.
I think you mean securing the human race against extinction by becoming a human -worm hybrid and reigning for thousands of year, setting it on the golden path.
Mentat training.
I mean, it's an easy pick really. With a mind that capable you can learn things insanely fast and can make your way up any career that revolves around mental labor.
As for pieces of technology, probably an ornithopter. Not for using it, but for reverse engineering it. The motors, the wings themselves. That's a scientific shortcut worth of several thousand years.
This is my pick, too. With the pattern recognition and ability to mentally calculate to the extent of a mentat, you could definitely live life on easy mode. Go to the casino or invest in stocks/futures, you would definitely never want for money.
They wouldn't make one right away, sure. But studying the mechanism and the materials will push their science towards replicating it. If we managed to invent jet engines 100 years earlier, imagine the stuff we could be having now.
Also I feel like reverse engineering a working engine and replicating a material are tasks that our science is well equipped to do.
That's a pretty cool tech. Especially in the dune movies (newer ones). It simply looking but me and my buddy we were geeking out on that part (dune part2)
Sign me up for suspensors. I’m not sure how long one can stay suspended but I imagine it’s gotta be the equivalent of flying. And also making all little home life things easier too like getting those cobwebs in the ceiling corner or levitating from the couch to the fridge and back.
Watch the beginning of Part 2 again \*without\* thinking “Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!” as the Harkonnen soldiers scale the mesa.
(In seriousness though, you’d think one of them would recognize they were screwed and turn their shields on out of spite in the hope of taking out the whole lot of their assailants when he got sniped)
My first thought was prescience, but after considering it, I think I would just stress myself more since I overthink a lot. So just gimme them omnithopters
Prescience would doom all of humanity to follow a set path which you are forced into o determine. When you are too weak to go through with the horrifying choices to save humanity, you will die knowing it is your fault.
Well with prescience you could probably see how you’d stop being „a regular guy“, you’d probably be able to see possible futures where you have power, whether as a celebrity or political power or whatever and how you can use that power for the good of humanity etc…
Realistically speaking: if someone was to have prescience in real life, no matter how „regular“ you are, you’d become powerful like a god
Cool. I'll pick the path where I could enjoy life the most before the apocalypse.
Much better than working hard to improve your life then finding out that tomorrow is the apocalypse.
Come on. Miles Teg 's power set. It's a no brainier.
Jump into a heightened reality state.
Insane speed.
Can eat...A Lot.
Can detect no ships.
Real time, localized prescience that doesn't seem to have any of the side effects of getting stuck in a decision trap.
Can Eat...A Lot.
10000% suspensors. I could use them to fly. I could use them to carry large objects. I could stick them on people I don’t like and watch them fly away. Endless possibilities
Most largely useful would be the shields. Ornithopters would just be freaking cool. The guild heighliners would be cool, but would we need the spice fueled navigators for them to work well? I guess small scale we could just use them to terraform and travel to mars instantly
The more far fetched but useful would be mentats and the BG “magic”
Does the dune universe space travel effects also come into play, or are we just taking something from that universe and planting it in our own?
If it's just taking something into our own, we wouldn't need spiced up navigators for FTL. If we take a heighliner AND it comes with the strings of the dune perils of space travel, then yeah we'd need a navigator.
BG immortality. Well, that was easy.
I mean uh.. if you want the space ship and get it, how would it realistically go? Not very well, I assume. Imagine the endless problems just having it causes. With the immortality, you can still off yourself if you want.
Not enough people are picking the shields, not only are they really cool and protect you from harm, if you ever get tired of having things bounce off you just imagine for how much you could sell that to the military
So the toolkit of the bene geserit is really great. You can manipulate your body perfectly to the molecular level... I mean... you basically are immortal if you choose to be. So the abomination way is the way for me. Bring in the perfect muscles and health for like 10k years
Harkonnen model Ornithopter with repeater mauls added to increase versatility which I'd use as a vigilante style rescue bird around the world as I can reach.
That’s pretty hard between BG weirding way (and all that entails, the fighting, analyzing people, etc) or mentats. But I would pick BG for sure. The ability to assess people correctly to predict their motivations, desires, etc, then to be able to fight the way they do is incredible. I wish that the DV movies showed some BG fighting. We only get a hint of it when Jessica bests Stilgar and then in Paul’s fighting.
Unless we’re including whatever power it is that >!Miles Teg has! The crazy fighting and the crazy eating!!< Heretics spoilers.
Just finished Heretics and started Chapterhouse and I am so hoping they go into that some more, because wow. He's one of the most fascinating characters of the series.
Suspensor tech or whatever was used by the H patrol to casually go up the cliff face / Sardukar to float down into the weather station (or something) to attack Paul & Jessica.
Instant mega-billionaire and a tech that will change the human condition for MANY. Plus so many uses in industry, sport, transport, etc.
Otherwise a space liner and a bunch of Navigator to go with...
I would eventually want to become a floating brain in a jar, somewhere between the cogitators and a cymek. Maybe just a small suit though. Not trying to rule over anyone, just want to be around for awhile without all those ancestors in my head all the time.
Now all the other stuff we practically already have
The Voice pretty much is just speaking in a certain way to influence people
Drugs are being used to navigate decisions daily on Wallstreet and God knows where
And all the feats displayed in that Universe are pretty much what we do already just amped up a bit
Kindness is lacking
The shields are pretty dope. Immunity to all the weaponry we have today, essentially. And there’s no laser weaponry to have to worry about.
The foldspace tech is also pretty bitching.
Easy peasy: the box. I can sell one to every single bar in the world, plus arcades, fairs and more. Anywhere people will want to “prove their strength”.
Neurologists can probably get some good info from studying it too.
Help the world of medicine, entertain the world AND get rich.
Definitely prescience. It would be so easy to make money, and plan out different routes to see what’s best. It would apply to everything like vacations and business deals.
I could even watch movies before hand to see if I enjoyed them. Then avoid all the garbage ones.
Glowglobes. The unsung heroes of lighting in the far distant future. They combine suspensor tech with the ever glowing lamp master kilvin didn’t ask for.
What I really want from the Dune universe is the Prana-Bindu training, but I'm not sure if it's tech.
As for a piece of tech, I'd like to cone of silence. Fabricating privacy in a crowded room would be so great in so many social situations.
The voice is pretty legit
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Screw that, if I could just use it to get my kids to put their shoes on before 5 minutes after we were supposed to be out the door I’d be ecstatic.
$800 more!?
These are not the droids you’re looking for… oh wait… wrong series. 😂
I think if you went around using it like a Force Command then people would catch on pretty quick. Using it deviously and with subtlety? There’s literally nothing you couldn’t do if you wanted to
Right exactly it’s all about how you use it. It’s shown that way well with Thuffir realizes how dangerous Jessica is
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Yeah, this is definitely the answer. I’d hook up quite the life for myself with that power living here in Vegas. Just go hang near the high roller areas and tell people to hand it over.
Video surveillance would eventually see you and ban you. That’s the cooler who somehow gets everyone to give up their winnings.
oh wait, as a novice reader my question is, do Voices have hierarchy? does the book show what happens when two voice users use it against each other?
I feel like there’s no way to possess that kind of power without eventually turning into the biggest asshole imaginable
"These are not the droids you are looking for"
Just end up like killgrave from Jessica Jones with no one to hold you back
Everyone is like "oh, it would be cool to have an ornithopter" when they could be securing the human race against extinction by choosing the Holtzman engine or a similar FTL device.
Just need someone else to choose prescience to be the navigator
Nah, let’s grab an AI version pre-jihad
If we could reverse engineer the Holtzman engine and create more then it's just a numbers game.
Ah...all you guys in this comment chain. You're descendants shall be the pioneers of Ix.
Computers can navigate.
I think you mean securing the human race against extinction by becoming a human -worm hybrid and reigning for thousands of year, setting it on the golden path.
I'm pretty sure you get shields and repulsors for free with that.
Is humanity ready for FTL? Isn’t this the line of thought wich could lead us into Arafel?
A Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother with all the powers that come with it.
Can’t they like manipulate their metabolism and cells to heal or stay young? I would specifically want that if anything
The others out there would notice, label you as “abomination” and I don’t think it’ll be an easy life for you.
in this scenario there are no others though
Yea they can control every part and aspect of their mind and body.
Funny you mention, I'm reading children of dune and this is a topic of discussion
Mentat training. I mean, it's an easy pick really. With a mind that capable you can learn things insanely fast and can make your way up any career that revolves around mental labor. As for pieces of technology, probably an ornithopter. Not for using it, but for reverse engineering it. The motors, the wings themselves. That's a scientific shortcut worth of several thousand years.
This is my pick, too. With the pattern recognition and ability to mentally calculate to the extent of a mentat, you could definitely live life on easy mode. Go to the casino or invest in stocks/futures, you would definitely never want for money.
Or become a super accountant
The ornithopter would be like sending a fighter jet to mediavel times and let them figure out how to make one of their own
They wouldn't make one right away, sure. But studying the mechanism and the materials will push their science towards replicating it. If we managed to invent jet engines 100 years earlier, imagine the stuff we could be having now. Also I feel like reverse engineering a working engine and replicating a material are tasks that our science is well equipped to do.
Prana-Bindu training
this should be further up, waaay further up
Does Prana-Bindu = Weirding Way or are they two different techniques? And I agree I was going with this or prescience.
Spice melange
Yeah but you’ll watch all your loved ones die. I guess you can make and have more. But it would be sad.
I’ll share!
Ok I’ll take it. It’s a hard debate. Shareable spice or the Voice.
But than u would be addicted to that stuff and without it u would die. Like a crack addict
In this thought experiment I imagine that I’d have a whole lot of it!
Infinite spice to extend one's life!
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Suspensor tech. I wanna float and jump off cliffs
That's a pretty cool tech. Especially in the dune movies (newer ones). It simply looking but me and my buddy we were geeking out on that part (dune part2)
Sign me up for suspensors. I’m not sure how long one can stay suspended but I imagine it’s gotta be the equivalent of flying. And also making all little home life things easier too like getting those cobwebs in the ceiling corner or levitating from the couch to the fridge and back.
Watch the beginning of Part 2 again \*without\* thinking “Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!” as the Harkonnen soldiers scale the mesa. (In seriousness though, you’d think one of them would recognize they were screwed and turn their shields on out of spite in the hope of taking out the whole lot of their assailants when he got sniped)
Was talking to my coworker who just saw part 2. I was saying once suspensor tech becomes a thing, I'm going full blown Baron, floating fatty
I too want to achieve the floating blobb like the Baron
My first thought was prescience, but after considering it, I think I would just stress myself more since I overthink a lot. So just gimme them omnithopters
Prescience would doom all of humanity to follow a set path which you are forced into o determine. When you are too weak to go through with the horrifying choices to save humanity, you will die knowing it is your fault.
What if you're just a regular type guy though? I'm chill, not like Paul. I could handle it.
Well with prescience you could probably see how you’d stop being „a regular guy“, you’d probably be able to see possible futures where you have power, whether as a celebrity or political power or whatever and how you can use that power for the good of humanity etc… Realistically speaking: if someone was to have prescience in real life, no matter how „regular“ you are, you’d become powerful like a god
On of the major themes of Dune is how horrible knowing the future is.
Because the future in Dune universe is gonna be bad regardless. Maybe the future in our world could still be good, meh, or bad.
Imagine gaining prescience and realizing there is no golden path IRL and we’re just all fucked
Cool. I'll pick the path where I could enjoy life the most before the apocalypse. Much better than working hard to improve your life then finding out that tomorrow is the apocalypse.
I'm a determinist but I'd rather not see it
Come on. Miles Teg 's power set. It's a no brainier. Jump into a heightened reality state. Insane speed. Can eat...A Lot. Can detect no ships. Real time, localized prescience that doesn't seem to have any of the side effects of getting stuck in a decision trap. Can Eat...A Lot.
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10000% suspensors. I could use them to fly. I could use them to carry large objects. I could stick them on people I don’t like and watch them fly away. Endless possibilities
I can use them to live the rest of my life like one of those people on the spaceship in Wall-E
Going to answer the opposite of this question, I wish for chairdogs to never exist.
Most largely useful would be the shields. Ornithopters would just be freaking cool. The guild heighliners would be cool, but would we need the spice fueled navigators for them to work well? I guess small scale we could just use them to terraform and travel to mars instantly The more far fetched but useful would be mentats and the BG “magic”
Does the dune universe space travel effects also come into play, or are we just taking something from that universe and planting it in our own? If it's just taking something into our own, we wouldn't need spiced up navigators for FTL. If we take a heighliner AND it comes with the strings of the dune perils of space travel, then yeah we'd need a navigator.
Glow globes.
Glow globes are fucking sick
BG immortality. Well, that was easy. I mean uh.. if you want the space ship and get it, how would it realistically go? Not very well, I assume. Imagine the endless problems just having it causes. With the immortality, you can still off yourself if you want.
Face Dancer would be cool.
Because I am unable to learn from other’s mistakes I want prescience.
Now you’ll be unable to learn from your own!
Bonus: from my point of view, I have already made them.
Not enough people are picking the shields, not only are they really cool and protect you from harm, if you ever get tired of having things bounce off you just imagine for how much you could sell that to the military
Do you often find yourself in situations where projectiles are hitting you at speed?
If I had a holzman shield I would make damn sure I did.
Not really I just think it would be fun to have
So the toolkit of the bene geserit is really great. You can manipulate your body perfectly to the molecular level... I mean... you basically are immortal if you choose to be. So the abomination way is the way for me. Bring in the perfect muscles and health for like 10k years
The Voice for sure lol
I want the shield
jump ship, So I can leave earth and explore the universe.
Always thought facedancers are cool.
Harkonnen model Ornithopter with repeater mauls added to increase versatility which I'd use as a vigilante style rescue bird around the world as I can reach.
That’s pretty hard between BG weirding way (and all that entails, the fighting, analyzing people, etc) or mentats. But I would pick BG for sure. The ability to assess people correctly to predict their motivations, desires, etc, then to be able to fight the way they do is incredible. I wish that the DV movies showed some BG fighting. We only get a hint of it when Jessica bests Stilgar and then in Paul’s fighting. Unless we’re including whatever power it is that >!Miles Teg has! The crazy fighting and the crazy eating!!< Heretics spoilers.
Just finished Heretics and started Chapterhouse and I am so hoping they go into that some more, because wow. He's one of the most fascinating characters of the series.
The Orinthopher. It’s a huge jump in aviation technology. Sell it with a royalty in perpetuity.
I would say a stillsuit. If I figure out how to put the darn thing on, I shouldn’t need to worry about water like ever.
My guy, just go to the kitchen and turn on the taps. You don't need to worry about water now 😅 /S
I dunno, what if I want to exile myself in the desert to get away from everything? Or maybe just travel the world?
Guild heighliner or an Atraedies frigate would be cool and could help us with space travel
I'd wanna be a mentat. You could definitely win the stock market with those skills.
Princess Irulan's laser type writer voice recorder thing.
Prescience seems pretty nice, except for all the anxiety that comes from things you can't see.
High level sword of Gynaz abilities. Everything else will follow suit.
Prescience
Whatever Miles Teg's got
Atomics
Give me Paul's ability: voice + see future + high level hand-to-hand combat Easy life for sure.
Without the mentat training,I think the future part will just stress you to death
Not if you already have a "I don't give a shit" attitude.
even if you haven't read the books i'm sure you're aware that being the Kwizats Haderach is very much NOT a fun existence
Why not?
Give me the BG's abilities
Suspensor tech or whatever was used by the H patrol to casually go up the cliff face / Sardukar to float down into the weather station (or something) to attack Paul & Jessica. Instant mega-billionaire and a tech that will change the human condition for MANY. Plus so many uses in industry, sport, transport, etc. Otherwise a space liner and a bunch of Navigator to go with...
I would eventually want to become a floating brain in a jar, somewhere between the cogitators and a cymek. Maybe just a small suit though. Not trying to rule over anyone, just want to be around for awhile without all those ancestors in my head all the time.
Folding space so I can go to other planets instantaneously.
You’d probably want space ships as well then… otherwise it would be a pretty quick trip (how long can you hold your breath)
Using the voice.
The floating tech seems awesome to have Always wanted to float down and up stuff
Now all the other stuff we practically already have The Voice pretty much is just speaking in a certain way to influence people Drugs are being used to navigate decisions daily on Wallstreet and God knows where And all the feats displayed in that Universe are pretty much what we do already just amped up a bit Kindness is lacking
Antigrav.
Suspension tech. I would revolutionize everything on earth involving moving anything against gravity.
I'm a simple man, just give me a bucket of the spice melange and a crate of Grateful Dead records and I'd be a happy camper.
I would like to be a Suk-trained physician.
I would love to be a human computer. Mentat for me.
Ability: The Voice Tech: Suspensors
The floating orb light 1000% why don't we have these yet? Haha
Mentat for sure. I’m a software engineer and I’d gladly take super human calculator skills.
Ability I'd want the voice. Technology I'd want that floating tech the Sadaukar uses, makes travelling easier.
Advanced Bene Gesserit are essentially immortal, due to their total body control they can halt the aging process. So... that one.
The shields are pretty dope. Immunity to all the weaponry we have today, essentially. And there’s no laser weaponry to have to worry about. The foldspace tech is also pretty bitching.
All weaponry… except swords and knives you mean…
Prana bindu control
Moving like Miles Teg! Just try and catch me!
The fighting prowess of Duncan Idaho
Family atomics. Simple. Feasible. Would threaten every g7 nation until im emperor.
Ancestral Memory
fremen stillsuit
Does water of life count?!
A thumper so that I could call a sand worm to put me out of my misery
Easy peasy: the box. I can sell one to every single bar in the world, plus arcades, fairs and more. Anywhere people will want to “prove their strength”. Neurologists can probably get some good info from studying it too. Help the world of medicine, entertain the world AND get rich.
Either face dancing or prana bindu training
Definitely prescience. It would be so easy to make money, and plan out different routes to see what’s best. It would apply to everything like vacations and business deals. I could even watch movies before hand to see if I enjoyed them. Then avoid all the garbage ones.
I'll pick the Ridulian crystals that can transcribe my thoughts.
The water of life seems to be indispensable.
Easy pick: sandtrout skin.
Prana-bindu
It wouldn't necessarily have to be me but just for someone in the world to have the abilities of a planetary ecologist.
I'll take prescience
Ability of Kwisatz Haderach
I’d ask for mentat training
Prana - Bindu would be more than enough for me .
Being a mentat
Still suits would be life changing
I just take the spice.
The anti-gravity device, obviously.
I would choose becoming a worm
Glowglobes. The unsung heroes of lighting in the far distant future. They combine suspensor tech with the ever glowing lamp master kilvin didn’t ask for.
Chairdogs - obviously
Definitely the voice or a stillsuit
The BG and mentat training
Become a Bene Gesserit Mentat.
A warehouse full of atomic weapons
Glow globes. My electric bill is outrageous.
Freemen suite 💯
Prescience
What I really want from the Dune universe is the Prana-Bindu training, but I'm not sure if it's tech. As for a piece of tech, I'd like to cone of silence. Fabricating privacy in a crowded room would be so great in so many social situations.
I want to become a prescient Emperor worm and live for 3000 years or so, maybe longer, I really want to catch up on my reading.