eliminating the whole sound weapon thing entirely is going to be hard. early on there is a scene with the emperor and the guild discussing the duke's soldiers and their 'new weapon' to be fair I think lynch did okay introducing this as a way of getting round the impossibility of coming up with someone moving really fast a la the books' ie the wierding way' he had a limited budget and it would have required too much sfx work to make it happen. of course today, the computers make it easy. and in fact they did manage it as an effect in the miniseries but I don't really mind the sound modules too much.