were typically used over last guns in order to avoid these kinds of nuclear reactions before the time of the god emperor when the padishah Emperor still reigned most soldiers preferred the use of swords and knives in combat when utilized correctly such weapons could safely penetrate body shields Duncan Idaho who attended the genus school trained Paul Atreides in swordsmanship the swords masters of the genus school were considered the greatest warriors in the universe the best of the impure sardick our soldiers could match up to a level tin genus swordsman the craft of swordsmanship was respected in the Imperium and many of the Great Houses of the far for Lucius employed a swords Master of the genus school on the planet Arrakis however especially in the desert devices such as louse guns and mala pistols were more common since the use of shields was impossible in the deep desert due to the maddening effect that the Holtzman effect had on the great worms of dune the freeman who lived their lives roaming the deep desert often made use of mala pistols which could fire darts a considerable distance the Fremen also made use of blades called Kriss knives a Kriss knife was a blade carved from the tooth of a dead sand worm these weapons were sacred to the Freeman once the blade was drawn blood must be shed it was also forbidden for an outsider to lay eyes upon an unsheathed blade the Freeman would also often poison the tips of the blades hunter seekers were an extremely dangerous and very common assassination weapon used among the noble houses of the Imperium the children of nobility learned about such devices at very young ages the device would be operated from another location and depend upon motion detection to see its target once a target was detected the device would burrow directly into the targets closest vital organ killing them instantly immediately after the but Larian jihad when all thinking machines have been destroyed the rulers of the Imperium converged to form the great convention a treaty which reserved the use of Atomics for a nonhuman entity the agreement said that due to the catastrophic history that nuclear weapons had among human society humans would never use such weapons on each other but instead on non-human threats should they ever appear only the Great Houses would be allowed to possess Atomics henceforth the great convention stated use of Atomics against humans shall be cause for planetary obliteration in the book dune Paul Atreides finds somewhat of a loophole he uses Atomics not on humans but to blast a whole the shield wall of Arrakeen after Paul became Emperor the Imperium adherence to the great convention had lessened considerably Atomics had not been the only weapons prohibited by the great convention but all weapons of mass destruction including stone burners stone burners were terrible weapons which not only caused great destruction but released a type of ray that destroyed the eye tissue of anything within several miles a stone burner detonated at the core of a planet would cause a reaction leading to the total destruction of the world the weapon worked by harnessing atomic energy it would create fusion setting off an atomic source and absorbing the sources energy it would create a disastrous result the assassins Handbook and in a universe work supposedly contained a compilation of commonly used poisons permitted during the war of assassins and the weapons which
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