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Armored Atreides Groundcars as depicted in the Dune CCG

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Quad Groundcar as depicted in the Computergame Dune 2

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Spice Scout -Concept art for the 1984 dune Movie

Groundcars were traditional vehicles of locomotion on a planet's surface. Groundcars could combine traditional wheels and antigravity floater bulbs or suspensors and even jet-pod modification. Due to the fact hat Holtzman shields would attract Sandworms and Sandstorms could disarm shields, Groundcars on Arrakis were mostly without antigravity systems and shields or were limited in use to the areas secured by the Shield Wall. On many Planets Groundcars had been largely replaced by faster ways of transportation such as universal transport pods, Tube-trains and transport tubes.

Images of various groundcars[]

Civilian groundcar vehicles[]

Military groundcar vehicles (mainly adaptations)[]

Types[]

There were numerous of different construction types of groundcars ranging from small one-man groundcars to heavy and armored models.

  • Armored Groundcar
  • Battle Towers
  • Cart-floaters
  • fruit pickers
  • guardcars
  • heavy vehicles
  • Ixian Carts
  • large lorries
  • mechanical augers
  • One-man Groundcars
  • patrol vehicle
  • private transports
  • Royal Cart
  • Sealed Groundcars
  • spice-scouts
  • Surface Cars
  • tanks
  • tractors
  • transporters
  • troop-carriers
  • vans
  • wheeled carts

Expanded Dune[]

  • Artillery Gun
  • Artillery Launcher
  • Boatcars
  • Buses
  • Construction Trailers
  • cranes
  • Groundtrucks
  • heavy siege cannon
  • Hovercrafts
  • large lorry
  • Limocar
  • Magchutes
  • Methcars
  • produce carriers
  • Railtaxi
  • Siege Machines
  • Spice humpers
  • Trams
  • Trucks
  • Tubetrains

Per the Legend of Dune[]

The Zensunnis of Arrakis used antique versions of this technology. That variant had the driver's seat on the rooftop.

Appearances in the Dune series[]

The planetologist Pardot Kynes, Liet's father, is travelling in a groundcar for research reconnaissance when he comes across a group of Fremen being harassed by Harkonnen soldiers. He stops the groundcar, exits and decides to help the Fremen. This starts him off on his path to convince the Fremen to join his secret project on terraforming small patches of Arrakis to make the planet more hospitable to Fremen habitation and limited agriculture.

Depiction in computer game adaptations vs. the novels[]

The armoured vehicles and other military ground vehicles appearing in the strategy video games Dune II, Dune 2000, Emperor: Battle for Dune, etc., such as the trikes, quads and tanks and artillery, are actually, per definition, groundcars. Tanks are only mentioned indirectly in the original book series, but armored groundcars, armored lasguns, artillery cannons and rocket launchers are mentioned occasionally.

Appearances[]

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