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!

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?

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?

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.

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!

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."