Forum Overview :: Dead Trees :: I can buy that evolutionary pressure has made a people more badass

[quote name="Arbit"][quote name="Entropy Stew"]I don't get the DBZ comparison at all; I thought it was adequately explained as an evolutionary pressure thing. The Sardaukar come from the imperial prison planet. You don't don't stay alive there long without being some level of a motherfucker, and only the noted motherfuckers are inducted as Sardaukar. This is before they've even undergone any military training. Same thing with the Fremen - the desert sieves out the weaklings through generation after generation so you're left with Larrys. Add training in the Bene Gesserit Weirding Way and you just make them more potent. -/ES/-[/quote] It's the crazy degree of superiority that Fremen achieved over the Sardaukar, the elite of the known universe, that is hard to believe. The idea also kinda implies that if we recruited our special forces from Ethiopia or some other godforsaken central African country that we could send a single Navy SEAL into Afghanistan and have him pacify the whole country in a week.[/quote]