From: jessicatorrento121@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 16:46:27 UTC+5:30, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > [F'up]   
   >   
   > Steve Coltrin  schrieb:   
   > > begin fnord   
   > > djh...@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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