Dune Frank
In Frank Herbert's "Dune", How did people get on Arrakis?
I'm reading Dune, and there's one thing I just can't look past.
How did people get on Arrakis in the first place? The Fremen seem too well adapted to have been normal humans that colonized the planet. The fact that they can reproduce with normal humans shows that (unless you think that on another planet, genetically similar humans would evolve in parallel to us) they are not absolutely native to the planet.
The book just skips over this detail like it's no big deal. Does anybody have an answer?
According to wikipedia:
"The Fremen come to the planet thousands of years before the events of the novel Dune as the Zensunni Wanderers, a religious sect in retreat. As humans in extremis, over time they adapt their culture and way of life to survive and thrive in the incredibly harsh conditions of Arrakis."
But still, that's not very specific as to why they didn't all fall dead of thirst or get gobbled up by sandworms on day 1. Perhaps they too came from a desert planet, that was not as dangerous as Arrakis but still gave them some background when it came to surviving. Maybe that is where they developed a stillsuit, and on Arrakis it was refined.
More likely there were expeditions organized to the planet that gathered information on how to survive, which was sent back to the main population. That way, when the rest of the Fremen arrived, they would already know the basics on how to survive the Desert Planet.
I loved Dune btw, it wasn't my favorite book and I didn't much like Frank Herbert's writing style, but it was an awesome story all the same. I hope you enjoy it too!
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