Glowglobe
From Dune
Mixed Canonicity
This article or section refers to elements from both Original Dune and Expanded Dune.
A Glowglobe was a suspensor-buoyed illuminating device. It is a glowing pale golden-yellow ball-shaped sphere that floats gracefully above a surface like a portable, personal sun. It is normally self-powered usually by organic batteries.
[edit] Origins
Expanded Dune
This article or section refers to elements from Expanded Dune.
The glowglobes were conceived by Norma Cenva while working for Tio Holtzman; she based them on the principles of the glowpanels and made use of his own field equations. Both the buoyancy and the illumination were consequences of the Holtzman Effect. She donned the technology to Aurelius Venport who then distributed them commercially.
20 years later, there was a dispute between VenKee Enterprises and the Poritrin government over patents and distribution rights for the now popular devices. Lord Niko Bludd had filed briefs in the court of the League of Nobles demanding restitution of all VenKee profits gained from unauthorized use of proprietary technologies.
Venport personally tried to solve this dispute by offering 1/3 of his gains to Poritrin, provided that Norma would work for him.
[edit] Behind the scenes
Glowglobes appeared as commodities in the Original Dune, however their origins and legal issues are expanded upon the Legends of Dune trilogy.
