>>17907195Sure, that's definitely the explanation for why the Fremen and Sardaukar have _an_ advantage, but the other guy was asking how that local turns into galactic conquest against literal million-to-one odds.
Scale his reasonable estimates down by a factor of a thousand, and you have a population of 10,000 against the modern Earth. That would be like the armies of Ireland or Kyrgyzstan conquering the world. I don't care how tough the grandmothers and children are, the logistics deserve consideration.