>>213679220
Well a big thing that I didn't get was how do the fremen sustain themselves technologically to the point they can endure fighting a war against the harkonnens. Watching the film the fremen came across as afghan type hide in the desert type warriors. And yes I know the books came out in the 60's before the soviet-afghan and the USA-afghan conflict. But in any guerrilla warfare type situation the guerrillas need someone to back them up, to provide resources, weapons, vital technology etc. The fremen have incredibly advanced suits, amazing thumpers to summon the worms, laser weapons etc. so am I just supposed to believe they have a fully self sustained industrial sector capable of mining raw material needed for the tech, production facilities, countless scientist and technicians to support all the science required. Because all the movies show me about the fremen is that they are a bunch of mujahideen fuckers that have no business maintaining such an operation and not having it be bombarded from orbit. They travel by riding those sand worms, which kinda leads me to believe that it is their only and primary source of logistical transportation. You would think the technologically and financially infinitely better off harkonnens would just shoot rockets from low orbit at those sand worm riders. Overall I just have a hard time buying into the whole idea that the fremen can just sustain a successful war effort against what is explicitly described as an obscenely wealthy adversary. And even moving forward with their galactic jihad, how are the fremen supposed to go up against all the other houses in space warfare and warfare on other planets? Like sure on arrakis they are masters of the environment and that helps them in local guarrilla warfare, but in space battle they are a fish out of water.
