DUNE - Elite Dangerous Easter Egg?
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The atreides had an eagle symbol in the books, it's not all that uncommon when it comes to iconography.
It does look a lot like the Imperial decals, but the Aquila is ripped off by everyone, and this is probably just an example of convergent ripperofferage.
Also, that aircraft design reminds me of 19th century dinosaur fossils that were slapped together all wrong from whatever parts they had by some proto-paleontologist who didn't know anything about biomechanics. This is what's going to happen when someone digs up a helicopter in a post-collapse world that's lost all knowledge of powered flight.
Also, that aircraft design reminds me of 19th century dinosaur fossils that were slapped together all wrong from whatever parts they had by some proto-paleontologist who didn't know anything about biomechanics. This is what's going to happen when someone digs up a helicopter in a post-collapse world that's lost all knowledge of powered flight.
They're ornithopters, based on French designs from the 18th century but originally designed by Leonardo DaVinci in the 16th century.
A red hawk. Not an eagle.
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These ornithopters leave me with the impression that some prop designers read Dune and went "hey, what if we took took some helicopter rotor blades and made an Apache-looking-dragonfly out of it, that's still technically an ornithopter, right?" Then the other designer goes "yeah, but do we really need giant gull-wing doors for a single seat canopy?" To which the first responds, "well it works on the real Apache. And besides, if you were in some flying machine that worked by flapping helicopter rotors, wouldn't you like to be able to escape if it fell on it's side?" And the second designer responds, "that happened to me while I was driving my DeLorean once." Not believing that anecdote for a second, the first designer retorted, "no it didn't." Then they forwarded the sketch to an executive producer, who was paid five figures to glance at it for ten seconds before rubber-stamping it.
Anyway, ornithopters long predate DaVinci and if Davinci had found a disassembled Apache, he probably would have realized the wings rotated, given his air screw designs! But DaVinci was a polymath, and mere mortals, even primitive paleontologists, are often less astute, which is why the first Iguonodon configurations looked like another movie prop...the Hellhounds, or whatever, from Ghostbusters, or was it Willow? Another example of convergent ripperofferage...everyone likes dogs, even when building dinosaurs.
Honestly even the Dune games went with that thopter design:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8u5N4JleL8
THis is the first time any adaptation has actually shown the ornithopters as described by Frank Herbert. They match the description in the books really well.
Trying to work out if OP's username is just "rampage" pun or... um... well...
i still remember playing this game, what a great concept.
my version was monocrome, so it´s the first time i see this in full color.
the atreides hawk is also ingame, visible on pauls ring:
It's not easter.
There is loads and loads of merchandise with that logo, so whatever it is it isn't an easter egg. 
Dunno about ED, but No Man's Sky recently got worms.
Osiris new dawn.
Try this one, first person view a sandworm burst out of ground and jumping towards you with big mouth open.
I hope future EDO Thargoid / alien encounter exploration on-foot experience can be something like this.
Guess dev is in short of action script and modeling development staff ... or FC bridge should be available from day 1 EDO release and every ship other than conda should've got damage models even since EDH. All I can do is to sometimes buy Arx for good looking skins. Hope these money really goes to their graphic / modeling department : P
Make some money for the shareholders and take some off a film company? They gotta be lovin' that! 
Seeing the film tomorrow at the Manchester Imax and really looking forward to seeing that baby fly.
Managed to avoid pretty much everything online so far, After Bladerunner 2049 I feel like I can trust denis villeneuve where scifi is concerned