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How it noted gestitured to an aid at the projector
A solido trid projection appeared on the table surface about a third of the way down from the duke
Some of the men father along the tables stood ood up to get better better
Look at it
Paul leaned ford staring at the machine scale against the tiny projected human figures rounded the thing was about one hundred and twenty meters long and about forty meters wide
It was basically a long buglike body moving on independent sets of wide tracks
This is a harvester factory
Howhat said we chose one in good repair for this projection
There's one drag line outfit that came in with the first team of imperioroecologists though
And it's still running
Although i don't know how or why
If that's the one they call old maria
It belongs in a museum
An aid said i think the hawkernis kept it as a punishment job
A threat hanging over their worker's heads be good or you'll be assigned to old maria
Chuckles sounded around the table
Paul held himapart from the humor
His attention focused on the projection and the question that filled his mind
He pointed to the image on the table
Said zuuphia are there sand worms big enough to swallow that hole quick silent settled on the table
The duke cacursed under his breath
Then thought no they have to face the realitities
Here there are worms in the deep desert
Could take this entire factory in one gulp
Howtard said up he a close er to the shield wall
Where most of the spingings done
There are plenty of worms
That could cripple this factory and devariis it their leisure
Why don't we shield them
Paul asked according to idea house report
How it said shieelds are dangerous in the desert a body size shield will call every worm for hundreds of metres around
It appears to drive them into a killing frenzy
Weve a freman word on this are no reason to doubt ardahoo
Sano evidence of sheeequipment at the ch
None at all
Paul asked it would be pretty hard to conceal that kind of thing among several thousand people
Haward said ardahoo had free access to every part of the ch
He saw no shields or any indication of their use it's a puzzle
The duke said the hackinin's certainly used plenty of shield here
Hawttt said they had repair depopos in every garrisson village
And that accounts show a heavy expenditure of a shield replacements in parts
Could the framan have a way of nodifying shieelds
Paul ked
It doesn't seem likely how what said it's theoretically possible
Of course a shay sized static countercharge is supposed to do the trick
But the ones ever been able to put it to the test
We'd have heard about it before now hellix said a smugglers have close contact with a frereman
And would have acquired such a device if it were available
And they've had no inhibitions against marketing and off planet
I don't like an unanswered question of this importance
Later said
Though fehere i want you to give top priority
It's a solution of this problem
But already working on it
My lord he cleared his roat
Ah i know who did say one thing
He said you couldn't mistake the frereman attitude toward sheelds
He said they were mostly amused by them
The duke frown
Then the subject under discussion is spicing equipment
How what gestiered to his aid at the projector
The soleedo image of the harvest of ttory was replaced by a projection of a wind device
That dwarfed the images of human figures rounded
This is a carile
Howard said
It essentially a large thouopter
Whose soul function is to deliver a factory
To spice rich sands and to rescue the factory
When a sand wworm appears
They always appear harvesting the spices
A process of getting in and getting out with as much as possible
Admititably suited to harkon and and morality
The duke said
Laughter was abrupt and too loud
And all thought ght were replaced the cardiar in the projection focus
These thouctors are fairly conventional
Howard said
Major modifications give them extended range
Extra care has been used in ceiling essential areas against sand and dust
Only about one in third years
Shielded possibly discarding the shield generator's weight for greater range
I don't like this the emphasis on shieelds the duke mattered
And he thought is this the harkinin secret does it mean
We won't even be able to escape on shieelded frerigets of all goes against us
He shook his head
Sharply to drive out such thoughts said
Let's get to the working estimate
What like a profit figure
Me how it turned two pages in his notebook
After assessing that appairs unoperable equipment
We've worked out the first estimate on operating cost
It's based naturally on a dereciated figure for a clear sasafety margin
He closed his eyes in men at semetrrance said
Undundthe haharkkon's maintenance and salaries were held to fourteen percent
We will be lucky to make it at thirty percent at first
With reinvestment and growth factors accounted for including the choone percentagent military costs
Our profit margin will be reduced to a very narrow six or seven percent
Until we can replace war out equipment
We then should be able to boost it up to twelve or fifteen percent
Where it belongs
He opened his eyes
Unless my lord wishes to adopt harkon and methods