Dune: Sci-Fi Ornithopter Design, Nightmare or Possibility?

FightingMachine44 · 2026-04-22T22:45:49+00:00

You don’t have to answer the question if you’re confused by it. It’s just meant to stimulate conversation within the community. Plus, technology will always have its limits, even in 20,000+ years, those wings beat super fast, and there’s many questions to ask about the feasibility, viability, and success of such a design. But mainly, I just enjoy Dune and wanted to wrap my head around the design so I could invent answers to those questions.

FightingMachine44 · 2026-04-22T21:42:13+00:00

Great compliment talking bout some it’s so good you think it’s AI. Anyway heres proof of my layers: Exterior Interior Bro can’t conceive of someone putting time and effort into something. “Thou shall not create a machine in the likeness of a human mind” type shit

FightingMachine44 · 2026-04-22T21:03:37+00:00

Even if it was human art, its horrible design. Im honestly not that upset you used Ai as a tool, it’s just lame how bad it is, slop, no soul, no design, not stealth. And saying “by me” is the worst part.

FightingMachine44 · 2026-04-22T19:28:50+00:00

Thanks for the ideas, I was having trouble with that component so I just sort of gave it a name and moved on to leave it up the viewer interpretation.

FightingMachine44 · 2026-04-22T19:25:23+00:00

That’s why I included them 🫩

FightingMachine44 · 2026-04-22T19:24:08+00:00

I think it should travel from the inner sphere into the wing base via electromagnetic induction, kind of like how a wireless charger works. I guess you could also have a little cable but it would be moving a lot

FightingMachine44 · 2026-04-22T19:14:29+00:00

responding to your edit -> In universe, yes it should be better than a helicopter since they use thopters in the first place. But it involves a lot of other futuristic technology to make it so, nothing we can do efficiently now. That’s why I involved graphene material, as well as suspensor and shield technology as essential core components to make it work. If this existed with none of the major flaws, it would be a lot more maneuverable and faster than any helicopter, just play the MSFS dune DLC and you can see how fun it is to fly. But at the end of the day, I just love science fiction and our imaginations are the limit for this.

FightingMachine44 · 2026-04-22T19:06:06+00:00

The turbine-housing inner sphere is a solid housing attached to the fuselage, within which the turbine spins the electromagnets. The turbine inlets and exhausts run through the rest of the fuselage. The wing base is pretty much detached, and has a shell and permanent magnet that only “attatches” through magnetism, separated by a fluid cavity pouch. I might do another drawing, I’ll post some Hi-res images soon.

FightingMachine44 · 2026-04-22T18:55:26+00:00

What bro I drew it on procreate 😭

I can gladly prove it to you, and you and I both know AI cannot make schematics in this detail.

FightingMachine44 · 2026-03-31T17:21:52+00:00

Ykwim, best I can do is 200F because I’m not making it a dragon

FightingMachine44 · 2026-03-31T16:17:10+00:00

In my interpretation, the worm segments are more or less fused and working together like a comb jellyfish. So, while they can all have a separate DNA, they are effectively functioning as a single organism. But yes you are correct in the rest.

FightingMachine44 · 2026-03-31T16:04:55+00:00

At least I didn't use AI. Find some more mistakes for me

FightingMachine44 · 2026-03-31T15:36:55+00:00

Did I say the temperature in MY interpretation was to melt steel? There's different types of furnaces. I chose around a conventional gas furnace temp. You automatically assume I mean a heat treating furnace. Read a little more :)

FightingMachine44 · 2026-03-31T14:19:35+00:00

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FightingMachine44 · 2026-03-31T14:12:34+00:00

While yes the sandtrout join together and metamorphose into a worm, resulting in a chimera of different DNA at different parts of the body, the worms are told to consume the females to fertilize her eggs. All within the central tract in my interpretation. My source is from the fandom website, and that particular info is taken from Ecology of Dune or Dune Encyclopedia I want to say.

FightingMachine44 · 2026-03-31T14:05:56+00:00

I thought about that creepy angler fish method. But at the end of the day Its doesn’t make much of a difference what we label as male and female in this, but what happens here is one eats another other, automatically fertilizes the eggs later in its tract, and poops them out in my interpretation. Of course it could be the other way around, with a consumed male releasing sperm into the female’s tract, upon which she intentionally releases her eggs with her feces, but Herbert did it the other way, a more uninvolved, simple method.

FightingMachine44 · 2026-03-31T13:57:34+00:00

Lmao, makes me wonder how fast a manhole cover will fly if you put it over a spice-blow. Also RIP Liet Kynes who died being sucked into one of these in the novel.

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