"The advent of the Field Process shield and the lasgun with their explosive interaction, deadly to attacker and the attacked, place the current determination on weapons technologies. We need not to go into the special role of atomics. The fact that any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetory bases of fifty or more other Families cause some nervousness, true. But all of us possess precautionary plans for devastating retaliation. No, my concern goes to the development of humans as special weapons. Here is a virually unlimited field which a few powers are developing."
Maud' dib Lecture From the Stilgar Chronicles
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
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