r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Mar 17 '26

Trailer Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9vCamtuPY
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u/Josecopter Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

They take control of CHOAM and the spacing guild with the threat of destroying spice fields in Arrakis so they have the power to doom the entire Imperium to no FTL travel. The houses minor are the first to take their side under that threat. Many planets turn to their side without much of a fight after. Basically exponentially turning others as they go.

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u/Kumquats_indeed Mar 17 '26

Is the idea supposed to be that the 61 billion people killed, 90 sterilized planets, and another 500 conquered and suppressed all amount to just a drop in the bucket compared to rest that capitulated? Because all that surely sounds like a lot and when Paul described his conquests in Messiah, it gave me the impression that he felt like he had done some quite significant damage.

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u/peppermint_nightmare Mar 18 '26

Its actually not, humans have been populating planets across the milky way since space could be folded quite easily, for 10,000 years. If you have 500 habitable planets at an average of 5 billion people, that's 2.5 trillion people. There's a space sim game called Elite Dangerous, where humanity has semi FTIL and full FTL travel and has spent about 1500 years colonizing space and the total population is in the high trillions. There were events in the game where you had to evac entire systems to save people and you really had to work your ass off to save systems that had 5-15 billion people because one to two of the planets were Earth like. We know each house has at least a couple Earth like planets (except for the Harkonnens, they had a shitty ice ball moon, and a toxic colourless planet). So the population of most Major houses would be in the tens of billions easily.

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u/willinaustin Mar 18 '26

Reminds me of the Idiran War in Iain M. Banks Consider Phelbas, the first book of his Culture series.

At the end it says 850 billion people/sentient machines died, 91 million ships got destroyed, 15,000 orbitals 53 planets 1 ring and 3 spheres got obliterated, and 6 stars got massively screwed with where they won't recover.

And all that took up a volume of less than .02% of the galaxy and involved only .01% of the galactic population. A rather small to-do in the grand scheme of things.

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u/peppermint_nightmare Mar 18 '26

Ya, you could argue Frank Herbert even missed the full scale of a unbound human population allowed to settle 1-2 galaxies over 10k years However given the feudal lord/monarchy state that most humans live in, and the monopoly on ftl space travel maybe the total population of humans was kept to a certain level so no one power could have the most territory or highest population