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Early Access - Dune's Shield Fighting is GENIUS
🕑 Added 2025-07-30 19:00:09 +0000 UTCAccess the latest Spacedock a week early here on Patreon! This time covering the brilliant worldbuilding of Dune's shield technology.
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Alaric Snell-Pym
It's a fantastic bit of effective world building, and Frank Herbert clearly thought it through well! Another example of that which comes to mind is C J Cherryh's novels in the alliance/union universe, where the culture and politicos are shaped by the FTL travel technology in really interesting ways - that also serve to give interstellar travel an eerie and dangerous feel, with ships occasionally getting lost...
Seth
ironically, it's also shields that make the Fremen such a superior force on Arrakis. Because everyone is used to fight with shields and their entire training and doctrine revolves around them, they are at a massive disadvantage when fighting Fremen who had to learn to fight without them.
Mr.Nobody13
If I can make a suggestion, or maybe you can direct me, have you done a video on Pnumatic weapons?
