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Thinking machines and things like that are banned at this time. Due to fighting a war against AI thousands of years ago, all thinking machines are banned. If someone were to do something like that, all houses of the Landsraad would declare war on them. If someone manually flew a drone without AI and did that, the houses would unite against them. Any AI is outlawed during this time period. The known universe is almost like a futuristic society at this point. Also, they have mentats, which are basically human computers.
In the book it explains things better. "Lasguns" do exist and are used, however; if used against a shield, it causes a nuclear explosion that kills the Lasgun user and the person with the shield. The shield stops fast moving projectiles. Bullets and things like that are obsolete, this why hand to hand combat comes back. A slow moving blade will go through the shield. There is a battle in a prequel book where the Sarduakar actually would reach and turn someone's shield off and kill them, during the battle of IX. The Atreides base shield was disabled by Yueh in the book. In the book, The Baron actually had brought in old fashioned artillery for this battle, which otherwise, would have been useless and obsolete.
With the names so similar, I thought initially it might be something related to The Forever War. Glad I am not the only one. Read the book though, great book.
There are many novels set in the Aliens universe. There is a three book trilogy, which is excellent. The last book, River of Pain, I think it is called, takes place at Hadley's Hope, during the fall of the colony. The book is great, and you learn how and why what happened. I don't want to spoil it for you, read the book.
I think it could be a serious sport. It is popular in China I believe, and other parts of the world. I believe China actually has their own battlebots type of show.
I agree. I did not see this thread earlier, or I would not have opened a separate Terry Silver thread. No one can pull off the Terry Silver role but Thomas Ian Griffith, so I hope they can get him, and not use another actor.
That is a shame if they can't get him to come back. Won't be the same with a different actor. I don't think anyone else can really be as good playing Terry Silver.
I had wondered that myself. Perhaps the punch did a lot of damage, like a broken jaw or broken bone around his eye. Maybe a broken bone in the face. That would take a lot longer to heal.
Maybe they would try to do what General Spears had in mind, trying to control the aliens via the Queen. If they get the Queen to cooperate through fear of the eggs being destroyed, then the drones will obey the Queen. Also, they could deploy them on a planet they wanted taken out (not sure how they would reclaim that planet), or maybe a space station or base owned by a rival company like Seegson.
Thanks for the detailed answer, I enjoyed reading it.
That was pretty good.