Subject: Mixing Dune and Transformers
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Posted on: 2009-05-26 07:10:00 UTC

My first thread on the subject was more a plea for review and criticism, but this is more a proper discussion.

I have, from early in my stories development, planned to integrate certain spiritualist elements into it: the nature of the Allspark, a different (but not heinously uncanonical) interpretation of Starscreams character as half power-seeker and half religous fanatic and, more recently, what it would really mean to have a god born into a human body... a god that had been mostly instinctual in it's action until then (though the question of it's actual level of sentience is debated).

Since then, I have become a casual, CASUAL mind you, fan of the Dune Universe. The Kwiatz Haderach, the Abomination and several other bits of Bene Gesserit lore intrigue me (and I intend to add them as small but meaningful bits of argument between characters). The guys who make the government codenames, as I said, are Dune fantics and have a "sick sense of humour". However, I am unsure of one more bit of tie-in that I am pondering, anf I wonder if it would be too Blatant.

In short, Frenzy will (eventually), be revealed to be the last known member of a semi-collective species of "Cybertroid" life form. Him and others like him have no central spark and normally have borderline plant level intelligence (thank you Mr. Soundwave). But they came together on their native world to feed off geothermal energy below the surface, travelling in great, burrowing masses to move from fault to fault, vent to vent. Their waste product: tiny blue crystals that still held incredible amounts of residuaal, refined energy: Energon.

Now, as someone will say, he is a Trout without his Worm, foundering in a sea of sand.

I speak in riddles, But am I being too obvious, even for Dune virgins?

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