Melange (span> or ), often called just "spice ", is the fictitious name of the Dune serial center Dune from the science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, and derivative works.
In this series, the most important and valuable commodity in the universe is melange, a drug that gives users a longer life span, greater vitality, and increased awareness; it can also open up prejudices in some humans, depending on the dose and physiology of the consumer. This awareness-raising property makes safe and accurate interstellar travel possible. Melange comes at a steep price, however: it's addictive, and a fatal withdrawal.
Carol Hart analyzed the concept in the "Melange" essay in The Science of Dune (2008). According to Paul Stamets, Herbert's drug creations are related to his personal experience with psilocybin mushrooms.
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Description
Herbert is not clear in describing the appearance of spices. He hinted at his color in the Dune Messiah (1969) when he noted that the Guild Navigator Edric "swam in an orange gas container [...] His tank vents emit a pale orange cloud rich with the odor of the geriatric spice, melange. "Later in Heretics of Dune (1984), a mound of melange appears as a" dark reddish brown mound ". Herbert also showed fluorescence in the God Emperor of Dune (1981) when Moneo's character noted: "The large trash of melange lying around in a gigantic chamber is cut from the original stone and illuminated by glowglobes [...] The spice shining bright blue in a dim silver light, and a bitter, innocent-smelling smell. "Herbert writes repeatedly, beginning with Dune (1965), that melange has a cinnamon smell.
In Dune , Lady Jessica notes that her first flavor taste "tastes like cinnamon". Dr. Yueh adds that it feels "never twice the same [...] It's like life - presents a different face every time you drink it. Some argue that spices produce a taste reaction learned. something good for it, interpreting the taste is fun - a bit of euphoria. And, like life, it's never really synthesized. "
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Origin
At Dune , there is only one source of melange: the sand of the Arrakis planet, colloquially known as Dune, and the millennium then called only "Rakis". Herbert noted in Dune that the pre-spice mass is "the stage of wild fungusoid growth achieved when water is flooded into Makmur excretion", "half-animal half-animal half-vector of Arrakis sandworm". The gas is produced which produces "a typical 'blow', exchanging material from the ground for surface problems on it." This blow is explosive, erupting with enough force to kill anyone around it. Frank Herbert explains the spice blows as in the next section of Dune :
Then he heard the roar of sand. Each Fremen knows the sound, can distinguish it directly from the sound of worms or other desert life. Somewhere beneath it, the pre-spice mass has accumulated enough water and organic matter from small makers, has reached a critical stage of wild growth. The gigantic bubbles of carbon dioxide formed deep in the sand, rising upward in a big "blow" with a vortex of dust at its center. It will exchange what has been formed in the sand for whatever is on the surface.
Herbert wrote that the pre-spice mass, "after exposure to the sun and air, becomes a melange". He then showed the color in the Children of Dune (1976), when Leto II passed "a splash of purple sand where the spiceblow had erupted."
Collect dangerous melange in extremes, because rhythmic activity on the surface of the Arrakis desert attracts worms, which can reach up to 400 meters (1,300 feet) in length, and be able to swallow the entire mining crawler. Thus, the mining operation basically consists of vacuuming from the surface with a vehicle called Harvester until the worm comes in, at which time the aircraft known as the Carryall lifts the mining vehicle to a safe place. The Fremen, who have learned to co-exist with sand worms in the desert, manually harvest spices for their own use and for off-planet smuggling.
In the 1500 years between the God Emperor of Dune (1981) and Heretics of Dune (1984), Tleilaxu invented artificial methods to produce spices in their axlotl. tanks, previously only used to make gholas. It is recorded in the Heretics of Dune that "[f] or every milligram of melange produced in Rakis, the Bene Tleilax tank produces a ton of". Technology "has ruined the Rakian monopoly on spice" but is not entirely successful in pushing the natural melange out of the market.
Use
Herbert noted in the Children of Dune that the nature of melange geriatrics has been "first noted by Yanshuph Ashkoko, rhetoric chemist in the Shakkad the Wise government". With the incident of Dune , spices are used throughout the universe and are a sign of wealth; Duke Leto Atreides notes that every precious commodity known to mankind, "all faded before melange.A handful of spices will buy a house in Tupile." Because of the scarcity and melange value and necessity as a catalyst for interstellar travel, the power of the Padishah Emperor at the beginning of Dune was secured by its control of Arrakis, which placed it on an equal footing with both. the assembly of a noble family called Landsraad and the Spacing Guild, which monopolizes interstellar travel. Taking control of the planet, Paul Atreides intensified this form of hydraulic despotism by asserting control over Landsraad and the Spacing Guild, as well as other factions in the universe.
Not without reason, the spice is often called the "secret currency." Without melange, the Spacing Guild Heighliner can not move. Melange triggers "trans navigation" in which the translight path can be "visible" before it passes. Without the melange and amplification of the human immunogenic system, life expectancy for the very rich slumps by a factor of at least four. Even the large middle class of the melange eating empire is diluted in small splashes with at least one meal a day.
Referred to as "seasoning", melange can be mixed with food, and is used to make beverages such as "coffee spice", "spiced beer", and "spice liquor". Melange is actually a drug in a clinical sense, and everyday use can extend the life span of humans up to hundreds of years. In greater numbers it has intense psychotropic effects, and is used as a powerful entheogen by Bene Gesserit and Fremen to initiate predictor and precognitive transi, access genetic memory, and enhance other abilities. But melange is highly addictive, and withdrawal means certain death; Paul Atreides writes in Dune that the spice is "[a] poison - so subtle, so dangerous... so irreversible It will not even kill you unless you stop taking it."
Navigators of Spacing Guild relies on melange for increased awareness and the ability to see to see the safe path through space-time, allowing them to navigate the gigantic heighliner Guild between the planets. The navigator must exist inside the spice gas cloud in the tank; These intense and extended exposures mutate their bodies over time.
Fremen
In Dune , Jessica told Fremen Stilgar's leader, "I see you do a lot of work with spices... you make paper... plastic... and is not that a chemical explosive?" The existence of "spice" and "spice" carpets is recorded in Dune Messiah and Dune Children .
Spice agony
Water of Life, a substance associated with melange, is used for "spice in pain", a ritual performed in a different way by Fremen and Bene Gesserit. It involves "blazing toxins" used to raise awareness and unlock genetic memory. Bene Gesserit who survived this deadly ordeal was later known as Reverend Mother.
In the original novel, Dune, Lady Jessica referred to the ritual as "The Honorable Mother Speech" as she experienced it. Jessica realized that although the Fremen and Bene Gesserts rituals were different, the results were the same. When he tried himself later in the novel, Paul said, "We'll see if I'm Kwisatz Haderach who can stand the test the Nuns believe." The term the spice woes is not actually used until the novel Bidat Dune , although its use in Dune realm seems to precede the novel event of the self.
In Children of Dune , the term trance trance is used to describe the effects of spice overdose. Alia had previously submitted to this overdose in the Dune Messiah, hoping to improve her vision; he achieved some success, but in the Children of Dune, Leto II and Ghanima blamed the trance for Alia's descent to Abomination. Fearing the same fate, they reject Alia's insistence on a trance trance. The trial was then imposed on Leto at Jacurutu when it was suspected that he was also an abomination. Leto survives the challenge and escapes, but is allowed to change. However, unlike Alia, he remains in control, and the spice trance opens his eyes to the Golden Path which will ultimately save mankind.
Physiological side effects
Extensive use of medicines colored the sclera, cornea, and user iris into dark blue, called "blue-blue" or "Mata Ibad", which is a source of pride among the Fremens. and symbols of their tribal ties. At Dune , Paul originally had green eyes, but after a few years at Arrakis they began to take deep blue uniforms. On other planets, addicts often use colored contact lenses to hide these color changes. In Dune , Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV notes from two Guildsmen:
However, the higher of the two held hands to his left eye. As the Emperor watched, someone pushed Guildman's arm, his hand moved, and his eyes revealed. The man lost one of his contact lenses, and his eyes stared out the total dark blue so nearly black.
Both in the 1984 movie and the 2000 miniseries version of Dune , the spice user's eyes are shown as luminous bright blue, with irises still different from the sclera.
When aerosols and are used as inhalants in very high doses - standard practice for Guild Navigators - the drug acts as a mutagen. In the first chapter of the Dune Messiah , Edric's Guild Navigator is depicted in a spice gas tank as "a longitudinal, vaguely humanoid figure with legs and a very obscure hand membranose - a fish in a strange sea."
Prefix and sequel
Project Charity
In Prelude to Dune the prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (1999-2001), Project Charity was an early attempt by Bene Tleilax to create synthetic melange in to eliminate dependence on Arrakis. After presenting their ideas to Emperor Padishah Elrood Corrino IX, at 10,154 A.G. Tleilaxu was granted the right to occupy the planet Ix by force (with the help of Sardaukar Elrood soldiers) and rearrange it to the laboratory station for the project. The old emperor wanted to remove the spice monopoly by ensuring that he had the only access to it, thus controlling Spacebar Armament. The Tleilaxu later changed the name Ix "Xuttuh" after their founder. In 10.156 A.G., Elrood IX was assassinated by Prince Hasimir Fenring by order of Crown Prince Shaddam. Shaddam, now under the name Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, gave Fenring the title of Minister of Imperial Spices and ordered him to oversee the project.
Although Tleilaxu Master Hidar Fen Ajidica succeeds in creating an artificial melange (called "bid ajidamal ", or "charity") that seems to have original properties, it does not work properly.. The sandstrout test exploded when exposed, and the Fenring test of its use by the Guild Navigators ended in disastrous as a heighliner and the passenger was destroyed and the Navigator of the second heighliner died. When Duke Leto Atreides invaded Xuttuh in 10.175 A.G. and rebuilding Prince Rhombur from House Vernius as ruler of Ix, all records of the Charity Project were destroyed by Fenring. When news of Landsraad, Shaddam denied all participation, claiming he had never heard of it. He argues that it may be something his elder father did by Elrood in his last days. The involved Master Tleilaxu was finally executed. Ajidica himself died of ajidamal side effects: his body is completely messy when the synthetic melange feeds it away from the inside out.
Ultraspice
In Sandworms of Dune, Brian Herbert and Anderson 2007, the conclusion for the original series, Spacing Guild is manipulated to replace the Navigator with the Ixian navigation device and bypass the melange supply of Navigators. Certainly dead if they do not have spices, a group of Navigator assigns Waff, Tleilaxu ghola built imperfectly, to create "advanced" sand worms capable of producing the melange they desperately need. He completed this by altering the DNA from the sandstrout stage of the worm and creating the aquatic shapes of the worms, which were then released into the oceans of Buzzell. Adapting to their new environment, this "sea worm" quickly developed, eventually resulting in a highly concentrated spice form, dubbed ultraspice . This new form of spice is so strong that a relatively small dose causes Kwisatz Haderach's potential to descend into a complete and unbreakable coma through perfect consciousness.
See also
- Nootropic
- Synthetic cannabinoids
- N, N-Dimethyltryptamine
References and notes
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