Re:Added: The Sadgeezers Guide to Dune

[quote=”#7″]Just one thing, a stone burner was not a planet killing weapon.[/quote] Frank Herbert mentions what the stone burner does rather quickly. In Dune Messiah (the chapter was Arrakeen is stone burned (nuked?) he writes:
[quote][i]Paul remained silent, thinking what this weapon implied. Too much fuel in it and it’d cut its way into the planet’s core. Dune’s molten level lay deep, but the more dangerous for that. Such pressures released and out of control might split a planet, scattering lifeless bits and pieces through space[/i][/quote]
Its also mentioned in [i]Dune: House Harkonnen [/i]that a Stone Burner is a planet buster. (I don’t have a copy in front of me to quote) When Earl Vernius is setting up the stone burner, to kill the invading Sardikar (as well as him and his men), he set it for a small detonation, rather then its full (planet killer) power. He did this because he didn’t want the innocent people of Dune to die too.

[quote]Othyem set off blew, it would have made a short series of Dune. 😥 [/quote]
True, but he only wanted to blind Paul. The stone burner was the most efficient means possible. Othyem et al, had no intentions of destroying their own sacred world.

[quote]Other than that tho, keep up the good work. This is a great site!!![/quote]
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