>>24700389
This is a science fiction universe with fantastical future technology, officer dipshit. The gas used in present-day, real life warfare is shitty and indiscriminate, yes. Also in real life, there's no such thing as force-fields or force-field countermeasures lol. A more practical, localized, discriminating gas would be among the least fantastical elements. Imagine a gas that becomes inert in moments, a biologically discriminating gas etc. I stand by my comment here >>24696997. Stunners wouldn't necessarily even need to do that, just not be so pathetically easy to bat away by some means. They have large scale "poison dust" weapons that go through shields but as another anon pointed out, those are considered taboo like nukes. But I see no reason why they couldn't be scaled down and as we also see in the series, taboos are violated all the time, basically whenever possible and/or practical. Just like irl. It's pretty well-written, all things considered. Stopping where Herbert did feels contrived, intentionally so imo, most likely because the entire epic is filled with greek mythological allegory. He simply wanted a reason for melee weapons to be more prominent. Nice reddit spacing btw, midwit.
