Dune

katy81 · Saturday at 17:08

Just watching part1.

Few questions

Why did paul and his dad come to arrakis? The harkounun were there, then they left, then the came back? Why leave in the first place?

Terminal_Boy · Saturday at 17:16

katy81 said:
Just watching part1.

Few questions

Why did paul and his dad come to arrakis? The harkounun were there, then they left, then the came back? Why leave in the first place?

Because the Emperor commanded House Atreides to take over the stewardship of Arrakis.

Duke Leto was becoming far too popular in the Landsraad (galactic council), so the Emperor set up a no-win situation for the Atreides.

ElliorR · Saturday at 18:01

Were you on your phone for the films duration? Serious question as it’s all explained in the film.

katy81 · Saturday at 18:06

ElliorR said:
Were you on your phone for the films duration? Serious question as it’s all explained in the film.

Terminal_Boy said:
Because the Emperor commanded House Atreides to take over the stewardship of Arrakis.

Duke Leto was becoming far too popular in the Landsraad (galactic council), so the Emperor set up a no-win situation for the Atreides.

But the emperor sends troops with the harkonoun to take the planet back. Why?

Was atrides going to become the new Emperor?

Shamikebab · Saturday at 18:10

The answer is literally in the post you quoted

Terminal_Boy · 2025-03-16T10:29:29+0000

katy81 said:
But the emperor sends troops with the harkonoun to take the planet back. Why?

Was atrides going to become the new Emperor?

To destroy a rival’s entire House and bloodline.

It was a possibility that Duke Leto might gain enough support to challenge the Emperor, especially if the Spacing Guild (who can’t operate without the Spice from Arrakis) backed Leto as they were increasingly unhappy with how the Harkkonens were running the Spice trade.

Ayahuasca · 2025-03-16T10:36:24+0000

Stick a big bore exhaust on it.

Bubo · 2025-03-16T11:28:37+0000

This is were watching the first 10 minutes of David Lynch's Dune would make it easier to understand what was going on.

Edit: Apart from the "sound" bit.

Efour · 2025-03-16T11:29:02+0000

katy81 said:
Just watching part1.

Few questions

Why did paul and his dad come to arrakis? The harkounun were there, then they left, then the came back? Why leave in the first place?

Arrakis has the biggest intergalactic Walmart in the known universe. They had a sale on eggs.

The Harkonnen got their first but realised they had left the oven on and had to go home to turn it off. They came back after they had turned off the oven but were angry they had lost their place in the egg queue, thus the genocide.

Its pretty straight forward.

kakarott · 2025-03-17T14:45:16+0000

katy81 said:
But the emperor sends troops with the harkonoun to take the planet back. Why?

Was atrides going to become the new Emperor?

The atredes have a very capable army and they probably could have overpowered the harkonens. The emperor made sure to have insurance and that was his elite ermy the sardukar.

The atredes were becoming very popular and the emperor was a very jealous man.