>>8056232>really like these baroque spaceship designsThe Dune universe is rich with it because Herbert deliberately was trying to emphasize the decadence of where humanity ended up after tens of thousands of years. It was part of an effort to make the length of time and age of civilization weigh on the reader. Been a fun theme several authors have explored. Micheal Moorcock in the Elric and Champion Eternal stories did the same thing to indicate the age, the boredom, the ennui of just how old those universes were by the time we joined their stories.
> tl;dr - yeah, I like it too 
