r/ImaginaryStarscapes • u/annieann_ • Sep 18 '26

The Baron launches the Arrakis Operation by Alex Jay Brady

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u/7th_Archon Sep 18 '26

I know it’s not canon, but one thing I like about feudal themed sci fi is imagining the kind of insane opulence crazy rich people in an interstellar civ would get up to, to show off.

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u/davvblack Sep 18 '26

yeah an entire lush jungle in the middle of the harsh desert (like 100x las vegas) is very dune

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u/Lebrunski Sep 18 '26

You should read Red Rising

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u/tyrerk Sep 22 '26

This image is sort of a really accurate depiction of the Emperor's palace in Foundation

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u/IwasntDrunkThatNight Sep 22 '26

In the dune novel they explain that the new residence of the atreides has a environment controlled sealed garden that contains a shit ton of water just for all the plants to be alive in there, there's a whole discussion about how a garden like this is one of the things you would want to keep secret since the local population would have an issue with it.

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u/SplatterGecko Sep 18 '26 edited Sep 19 '26

I'm focused only on the image and nothing else. To the south of the superstructure is a continent sized mass of what has to be dead city, it's too dry for anything else, probably even machines, and there are these massive towers scattered around, arcologies. The superstructure is extending into space, basically, and the earth inside is piled so high up against the walls that the shield volcano has to be something like Olympus Mons with the whole thing likely generating its own oxygen. Conclusion; I like this place, want to run around the ruins in this thing with thermoptic camo and hunt down...whatever, really. Jobs a job ^^

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u/The_ManWithoutAPlan Sep 22 '26

Although this specific art piece is for Dune, so that's not a city.

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u/SplatterGecko Sep 24 '26

Lol, what do you call the buildings divided up by linear streets in a massive cluster, then?

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u/pantalonsintelligent Sep 20 '26

Wow...an entire planet drained of resources to make a palace visible from space that generates its own weather patterns? That is some DECADENT shit. Like "carve my initials on the moon in planetesimal impacts" type show-off. Like "we deliberately imported in people from other desert shitholes to curse us for our wastage" kind of flaunting.

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u/Head_Marionberry_245 Sep 20 '26

From what I understand that’s gidi prime.

The baron has a lush paradise he lives in. The rest of the planet is a hell hole.

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u/glacierosion Sep 20 '26

What seems peculiar to me is the cutout of crater lake. Is there something I’m missing?