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   Steve Coltrin  schrieb:   
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   > djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) writes:   
   >   
   >> It has been so long since I read that book that I have to ask:   
   >>   
   >> They used swords in _Dune_?   
   >   
   > Swords and knives.  There's ubiquitous personal defensive systems that   
   > are impervious to most projectile weapons and that present quite   
   > severe disincentives to using energy weapons.   
      
   I always found that part dodgy.  If you have a personal energy   
   shield that keeps fast objects from going in, why wouldn't everybody   
   use that, plus medieval knight-type armor?  If you make that out   
   of any sort of advanced material, you'd be pretty much invulnerable   
   on a battlefield.   
      
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