Fremen Customs Justice Water Conservation Collection

The Fremen are the inhabitants of Arrakis, also known as Dune, the desert planet that is the sole source of the spice melange in the known universe. The Fremen came to Dune thousands of years earlier as a religious sect in retreat; over time, surviving the incredibly harsh conditions of Dune bred them into the ultimate example of humans in extremis: a people bred purely to survive. Their language is based on Arabic, suggesting that they are descended from the Arabs of the forgotten planet Earth.

The Fremen are organized into sietches. Each sietch has a naib, whose wordWord can mean one of several things: In a linguistic sense, a unit of speech or writing that symbolizes or communicates a meaning, consisting of one or more morphemes. Microsoft Word a word processor produced by Microsoft as part of its Office software su is lawThis article is about law in society. For other possible meanings, see law (disambiguation). Law (a loanword from Danish-Norwegian lov , in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules of conduct which mandate or proscribe (or both) specified relationshi unless someone is willing to challenge him for leadershipIn common usage, leadership generally refers to: the position or office of an authority figure, such as a President a group of influential people, such as a union leadership guidance or direction, as in the phrase "the emperor is not providing much leader. The Fremen practice polygamyPolygamy or many marriage is a marital practice in which a person has more than one spouse simultaneously (as opposed to monogamy where each person has a maximum of one spouse at any one time). The term is often used in a de facto sense, applying regardle, apparently as a means of pinpointing maleThe word male has the following meanings: In biology, it refers to one half of a heterogamous reproduction system, where the female is the other half. The male sex comprises those organisms that produce sperm cells (which is defined as the smaller gamete) infertilityInfertility is the inability of a couple to naturally conceive, carry or deliver a healthy child. The International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination (INCIID) considers a couple to be infertile if they have not conceived "after a year of un. Each sietch has a sayyadina, a wiseWise Solutions, Inc. is an American company who makes tools for creating installers. Wise is also the name of their primary product. External links Official web site: http://www. womanPioneer plaque sent to outer space A woman is an adult female human being, as contrasted to an adult male, which is a man. The term woman (irregular plural: women is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions, or both. who serves as the native equivalent of a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother.

1 Customs

1.1 Justice

The Fremen system of justice always relies ultimately on trial by combat. The naib of the tribe is someone who killed the previous naib in single combat. Anyone may challenge another in a duel to the death over matters of etiquette, law, or honour; the winner of the duel claims the wife, children, and possessions of the loser, as well as the right of the circumstances leading to the duel.

1.2 Water Conservation

The most notable custom of the Fremen is their water conservation. Living in the desert with no natural sources of water has spurred the Fremen to build their society around the collection, storage, and conservative use of water.

1.2.1 Collection

Water is collected from the atmosphere in wind traps that condense the humidity and add it to the underground water store. Water can also be collected from dead animals and people (especially outside wanderers) and processed in a death still which removes the water from the carcass for addition to the sietch water store. The Fremen that caused or discovered the death of the animal or person is then given a set of water rings whose markings denote a volume of water equal to the amount of water collected. These rings are used as a form of currency (the writing device being that water is as precious, if not more so, than gold).

1.2.2 Storage

Each sietch has its own water store underground. This store can hold millions of liters of water and is accounted for literally to the last drop. This store is used as a bank for all the water owned by members of the sietch through water rings, as well as for the sietch's own store of water for the hopeful transformation of their planet into something other than desert.

1.2.3 Conservation

The Fremen spend all time out of their seitch in a stillsuit, a special skin-tight suit designed to collect and recycle all hydration the body releases, from waste and sweat to the moisture of the breath. It is then held in a catch-pocket and made available to drink. A Fremen in a well-kept suit can survive weeks in the desert as opposed to the hours of an outsider.

2 Mythology

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A significant part of the Fremen mythology can be explained as caused by the Bene Gesserit's Missonaria Protectiva , manifestating a Messiah legend in a plan to support the Kwisatz Haderach, should he ever come to the planet of Arrakis. Diverse 'failsafes' and Bene Gesserit beliefs were inserted into the Fremen culture, thus allowing one knowledgable of the Bene Gesserit's teachings to use them to his advantange. In fact, the whole belief system was formed by Bene Gesserit ideals.

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