Coup in Arrakis Capitol Leaves Region in Flux

Rube_Goldberg_Mentat writes: The power struggles between rival houses Atreides and Harkonnen have come to a T. It was reported earlier today that a coup led by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen was staged in the capitol of Arrakis. The House Atreides, which had only recently taken command of the planet and of the spice trade, is reported to have no survivors, though this is yet to be confirmed.Naysayers fear a collapse of the spice economy as a result of the violence. A r presentative from House Harkonnen has shared with the press that though times ahead may be rocky, "the spice will still flow."

Comments

I, for one,

[Overzeetop]

would prefer if we could just bring back OMG Ponies and call it a day.

Re:I, for one,

[dwillden]

And I for one, welcome our new Lame Aprils Fools day joke overlords!

Re:I, for one,

[MiniMike]

It's so bad today that people are actually asking for reposts...

Re:I, for one,

[AntiSol]

You're missing out, IMHO books 4-6 are the best ones. My favourite is book 5 (Heretics).

(In case you were wondering, there are only 6 Dune books. It's a pity it ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, but it's probably better than the alternative of somebody screwing it up royally with hack writing and trying to tie it into their own series)

I'll say it again

[Anonymous Coward]

I knew this was going to happen. I've been telling my friends in the spice trade for years to get out before someone invades Arrakis. We have determine a new method of intersteller travel depending on a single planet for our primary source of fuel is a non sustainable solution which wil lead us to our doom.

Re:I'll say it again

[Applehu Akbar]

Who knew that legalization in Colorado would cause a catastrophic drop in the spice price, condemning Arrakis to widespread terrorism and civil war?

13 prequels/sequels explain all in gory detail

[peter303]

Son Brian Herbert and scifi hack Kevin Anderson wrote at least 10,000 pages filling in most of the gaps in the story, including the origins of the two families. Kind of takes the fun out of it when it is all explained to you.

Re:Not clever

[decipher_saint]

Spoken by someone who isn't heavily invested in Spice commodities

My question is will this have an impact on shipping immediately or do we have enough reserve to keep the navigators going?

Worse than Beta?

[dstyle5]

Whoa, lets not get carried away now. ;) While this "joke" post is terrible, it probably won't make me consider never coming here again, which the Beta did.

Re:Not clever

[Crashmarik]

You're obviously a Harkonen fifth columnist.

April Fools

[DarkOx]

I have always enjoyed April fools on Slashdot. Many have complained but in past years at least some of the gags were plausible or at least clever, like the evil bit drafted up as an RFC etc.

Today its basically bad fanfic, which does not really qualify as an April fool's prank. Its like watching a bunch of 3rd graders who think they have mastered stand up comedy tell fart jokes.

Request: enable april fools button in profile

[CptJeanLuc]

Assuming Slashdot sees its target audience as on average at least moderately intelligent, it would be nice to give us a way to opt in (or at least opt out) to the whole April Fools mess. Some of us come here to browse some hopefully interesting stuff. If the reaction of your online audience is mainly "oh [insert favoured deity here], not those 2-3 days on Slashdot again", maybe you are going about this the wrong way.

It occurs to me...it's ALMOST ponies

[Overzeetop]

I mean, they are beating a dead horse at this point. We can imagine that the horse is pink.

Re:It occurs to me...it's ALMOST ponies

[Bob the Super Hamste]

And if the horse is part of the null set, I can say with confidence that it is also a pony and pink. Or at least that is what I was lead to believe by one of my math professors in college.

Re:It occurs to me...it's ALMOST ponies

[PolygamousRanchKid]

We can imagine that the horse is pink.

It depends on how long you cook it. Horses ordered "rare" are still a bit bloody inside, "medium" are pink, but "well-done" are greyish.

Oh, right, they expect us to believe that?

[pla]

Pffft, Any fool can tell that Harkonnen doesn't have the cunning to pull this off on their own.

Open your eyes, sheeple! This has the marks of those Bene Gesserit witches all over it!

Time for a poll

[rossdee]

If you could remove a day from the calendar, which would it be?

April 1st

April 15th

February 14th

October 31st

December 25th

The 1st Tuesday in November on a leap year

Your birthday

Cowboy Neal's birthday

Sardaukar Not Involved

[blackfeltfedora]

Imperial spokesman again denied that Sardaukar were involved in the upheaval on Arrakis. "This was a struggle between two competing Houses, we would never become involved in their internal disputes."

Letter from the Spacing Guild

[Rabbit327]

Just got this letter from my Guild representative: "Greetings investors and customers The Spacing Guild would like to inform our customers that due to the recent events on Arrakis there will be a 25% surcharge on all spice shipments and travel arrangements until the political stability on Arrakis has improved. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and would like to assure you that your shipments of spice will be on time. Our navigators are hard at work making sure that your intergalactic travel and shipping needs are met. Office of the Director of House Relations The Spacing Guild"

Imperial Announcement

[Emperor Shaddam IV]

I deny my Sardaukar legions had anything to do with this! This was an unsanctioned action by the Baron and I will personally visit Arrakis to take control!

Re:You almost had me!

[jeremyp]

Two typos then. I'm pretty sure they meant the "capital of Arrakis".