Arrakis with no Dune?!?!?! !!!!!!!!!

[Icebergdx]

How in the name of all that is decent, can you have a system Arrakis in this game, complete with two suns, AND NOT HAVE A DESERT PLANET NAMED DUNE IN IT!!!!!!! This is SO wrong, on SO MANY LEVELS!!!!!!

COME ON!!!!!! Frank Herbert is rolling over in his grave right now!!!!!

I was totally crushed by this, and I found the star system completely on accident while hauling Snake Gin to Heike for the cure all tea. Total crusher......

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

 

[Cody]

I thought Arrakis was the planet known as Dune?

 

[Zieman]

I thought Arrakis was the planet known as Dune?

Exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrakis

 

[Kosmetas]

I'm almost certain they already know this... the system was put in to pay homage.

Arrakis — informally known as Dune and later called Rakis — is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert.

 

[Icebergdx]

Yes, that is correct, the Planet was named Arrakis in the Dune series. But if you are going to use the name Arrakis as the name of a star or star system, then you should at least have a planet named Dune in that system, don't ya think? THAT is my disappointment.....

 

[Zieman]

Yes, that is correct, the Planet was named Arrakis in the Dune series. But if you are going to use the name Arrakis as the name of a star or star system, then you should at least have a planet named Dune in that system, don't ya think? THAT is my disappointment.....

Agreed, it would make the homage more 'complete'.

 

[Kosmetas]

I see your point

 

[Icebergdx]

And if they would have done the graphics so that it looked like Dune, complete with the 2 moons, and had the planets Giedi Prime, Caladan, Ix, Saulsa Secundus, and Kaitain all in the system, I think it would have been the ULTIMATE HOMAGE, but that is just me.

http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Planets

 

[s0litaire]

Well Ain't that just lucky for us their is a competition running from Tomorrow which the prize is to name a planet in-game

https://community.elitedangerous.com/node/242

 

[Cody]

Well Ain't that just lucky for us their is a competition running from Tomorrow which the prize is to name a planet in-game

Not open to non-twatters, I presume?

 

[DWorth]

The star system Mu Draconis also bears the name Arrakis. It means 'the dancer' in Arabic

http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Arrakis.html

The planet Arrakis, otherwise known as 'Dune' was supposed to be a planet of the star Canopus.

 

[Icebergdx]

The star system Mu Draconis also bears the name Arrakis. It means 'the dancer' in Arabic

http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Arrakis.html

The planet Arrakis, otherwise known as 'Dune' was supposed to be a planet of the star Canopus.

Anyone find Canopus in the game? We can check it to see if Dune is there...

 

[deathmagnet]

I agree...Even though Arrakis is Dune the homage should be completed by putting a desert planet in it either called Rakis or Dune.

Great novels btw...remember watching the movie with my dad when I was like 6 or something.

 

[Sire]

How in the name of all that is decent, can you have a system Arrakis in this game, complete with two suns, AND NOT HAVE A DESERT PLANET NAMED DUNE IN IT!!!!!!!

Maybe because E: D is NOT a novel by Frank Herbert?

 

[Kosmetas]

Maybe because E: D is NOT a novel by Frank Herbert?

This also not star wars or star trek yet they are included.

 

[Cody]

The planet Arrakis, otherwise known as 'Dune' was supposed to be a planet of the star Canopus.

Canopus in Argos: Archives - a good read, is that.

 

[Sire]

This also not star wars or star trek yet they are included.

What are incuded? The Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, Tatooine, Mr. Scott, Darth Vader? What are included?

 

[Whiterose]

We need a new ship called the Starbug....

Spoiler

 

[Muzz UK]

Dune was merely the nickname or what the Fremen and many others knew the planet Arrakis as.

Would be cool to have a Muad Dib star port or something!

 

[Janichsan]

Two words for you: intellectual property.

Besides, "Arrakis" is an actual existing star.