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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caspian Marqine" data-source="post: 1836459" data-attributes="member: 19043">InterestingHmm, well just remember natural resources = technology.  You'll notice the Fremen don't actually have much in the way of technology aside from the stuff they steal or buy.  Without something to burn (wood/coal) and something to forge (metal) you can't really do much except with animal skins.  Water is another important concern, again because most technological processes need water, like, steam engines.This all depends on how "realistic" you're doing your setting.If you're coming from a post-apocalyptic angle, then technology is more plausible to have around, but in the same way artifacts/magic items are.  They're likely to be rare, and rarer still the more complex/large they are, and unlike magic items they can break so there's another concern on top of it.  Though again that's on a conventional technology scale.  Unconventional tech (crystals, biotech, nano-tech) you can draw up parameters for.Jonathan</blockquote>