I’m fairly certain Holtzman suspensors attract worms. (As do Holtzman shields.)

With the harvesters it doesn’t matter much because the harvesting itself attracts them, but if you want to move around in Arrakis and don’t want to find your vehicle eaten when you come back for it, it’s probably better for it to use some mechanical means of flight, and ornithopters are probably less noisy than propellers, rotors, or jet engines. Also more capable of handling sandstorms.

it’s also a very useful tool for transportation purposes

Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

You need the boots, though, otherwise it’s very easy to accidentally go splat.

Does the GCU Grey Area from Iain M. Banks’ The Culture series count as a weapon?

I know I can’t use it, of course, I wouldn’t want to. I just want it to have fun. Right now. On Earth.

I’m sure it’d find plenty of ways to enjoy itself…

It does have a “fatal intestinal maelstrom” setting, if I recall correctly… (and I’m not sure about the survivability of “unspeakable gut horror”…)

As much as I hate the ongoing “AI” scam, and as many hours as I’ve wasted on Bethesda’s games (or on modding them), in Bethesda’s case (especially modern Bethesda) I actually believe the slop machine might actually be an improvement.

At least the code for the unofficial patches will be in its training set, which is a start…