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Is spices only found on arrakis? ›

Spice, also called melange, is an ingredient found only on the planet Arrakis, and is "the driving force for the galactic economy," the hosts of "Gom Jabbar" say in their spice-centric episode. The family that rules Arrakis controls the spice trade. House Atreides occupied Arrakis before House Harkonnen invaded.

Without spice, there would be no Guild Navigators, and thus, interstellar travel would be impossible, emphasizing the substance's unparalleled importance.

For those who consume spice, it may allow: Extended life. Psychotropic abilities. Prescience, or an ability to see into the past, present, and future.

Guild Navigators (alternately Guildsmen or Steersmen) use the drug melange (also called "the spice") to achieve limited prescience, a form of precognition that allows them to successfully navigate "folded space" and safely guide enormous starships called heighliners across interstellar space instantaneously.

In the universe of science fiction epic Dune, spice melange, usually just referred to as 'the spice', is a valuable narcotic substance. It's formed exclusively in the sands of the planet Arrakis from the excretions of young sandworms. The spice confers health benefits, for example increasing life expectancy.

The absence of technology in the Dune universe stems from an event 10,000 years before the first movie takes place, in which humanity waged war against the AI they created and subsequently outlawed it.

There is a scene in the 2021 Dune film where Paul and Jessica are facing down a sandworm that stops just before eating them. There's a few reasons for this, first and foremost, sandworms don't necessarily want to eat humans. There's a lot of water in the human body and even a little can kill an adult sandworm.

Paul may not turn into a worm in Dune: Part Two, but he does ride one. If you're disappointed that you don't get to watch Timothée Chalamet undergo a morbidly fascinating transformation, don't worry—there's plenty of mysticism and sci fi weirdness in Dune: Part Two!

In the Bible, St. Paul (Saul of Tarsus) was struck blind by a light from heaven. Three days later his vision was restored by a "laying on of hands." The circ*mstances surrounding his blindness represent an important episode in the history of religion.

The spice found on Kessel was glitterstim, one of the most prized spices in the galaxy. This particular spice was created by a species of energy spiders that would spin the spice into webs. Any unlucky miner that came into contact with one of these creatures would have their life energy sucked out of them in seconds.

Is the spice vital to space travel? ›

The spice is vital to space travel. The Spacing Guild and its navigators, who the spice has mutated over four-thousand years, use the orange spice gas, which gives them the ability to fold space. That is, travel to any part of the Universe without moving.

Spice was the name for a type of illicit substance or substances in demand throughout the galaxy. Spice was mined at the spice mines of Kessel, where slaves such as captured Wookiees were worked to death turning mined medicinal spice mineral into a recreational drug.

Spice is only produced on one planet in the entire galaxy, making its demand far outweigh its supply. Thus creating a need to “control the spice”.

Spice mining is the process by which the spice melange was removed from the sands of the planet Arrakis for consumption. The spice mining process was a labour-intensive, difficult and dangerous process. Spice Harvesters collected the spice from the sand dunes.

During the days of the Corrino Empire, the spice was the rarest and most valuable commodity in the known universe. It was said that it was so valuable that one briefcase full of spice would be enough to purchase an entire planet.

It's clear that Dune was an inspiration for Star Wars' version of spice, but examining how it worked in both canon and Legends shows some big differences.