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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.
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Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):
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Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta
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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.
The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:
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This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.
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Dune Messiah is the story of a guy who has a vision of his lover dying and tries everything he can to stop it. But she ultimately dies giving birth to twins, a brother and sister. An evil guy associated with cloning offers to bring her back from the dead.
God Emperor of Dune features a despotic worm like creature (body of a worm, but has a face and hands) that lives in a desert who has crazy orgies in his palace.
Yeah, Star Wars took shit from Dune constantly.
was the god emperor of dune the senate too?
Dune had the Landsraad, but it was more like a House of Lords kinda deal, not an elected thing.
If they weren't a bunch of idiots and united against the Emperor they could have gotten rid of him. But the Landsraad was ineffective in preventing the Emperor from having unchecked power. I think the God Emperor (the worm) abolished the Landsraad. But it's just kinda not mentioned anymore.
So yeah Star Wars is kinda like this too, with the Senate being ineffective in preventing the Emperor from having absolute power and eventually so pointless it's only given one sentence about it not being a thing anymore. Though I think Star Wars takes a lot of cues from the Roman Empire because it's Emperor and Senate. Dune is more feudalistic with great houses and a house of lords.
It's time to read Dune, then
The audio book is amazing. Listened to the trilogy this summer with my kids.