Spacing Guild

Like, the galaxy is ruled by an emperor, sure, but his power is entirely dependent on this massive economic conglomerate called CHOAM

And CHOAM is, in turn, completely dependent on the Spacing Guild

Right, and the Spacing Guild cannot function without spice.

Okay, let's unpack this for a second because I wanna dig into the mechanics here.

It's not just that spice is a valuable commodity like, I don't know, gold or oil

Well, you have to mutate the human brain to do the math

Which is just wild

It is wild, and that is exactly what the Spacing Guild does.

I thought you meant the giant fish tank with the meat computer creature in it, but you meant the...

Oh, no. You're talking about the Space Guild Navigator.

Yeah, the actual...

That's what you're

talking about.

The Space Guild Navigator on droids.

Mecha tank.

Yeah.

He gained power through his control of spice which is the most valuable substance in the universe.

rely on it as is the spacing guild navigators and they ingest vast amounts of it to hone their abilities.

This allows them to travel through space and also gives them the prescient abilities that we see with Paul.

The entire universe is addicted to spice and thus Paul controlling Arrakis means he controls everything.

From this point the Harkonnen forces then descend to the desert.

We get several shots of them silhouetted against the orange and it's very reminiscent of one of the book covers.

In the book we learn they have to do these patrols on foot because Stilgar actually bribes the Spacing Guild with spice.

This stops them from sending their satellites over their terrain which is something that Rabban has to deal with.

Okay.

She also bribes Edric, the Spacing Guild Navigator, into collaboration with Spice.

Now, even though Edric was the one who helped deliver the Obliterators to Richise, he's like, yeah, I'll take payment from anybody who's offering.

Yeah, this guy really playing both sides.

They've created it.

mathematical compilers.

These reliable navigation machines that can be used instead of Spacing Guild's navigators.

This brand new technology.

You have a vast universe ruled by a centralized, decadent power, Emperor Shaddam IV.

You have a massive commercial monopoly, the Spacing Guild, who control all interstellar travel because only they can safely fold space.

And they can only do this by consuming the spice melange.

Right.

We would basically become domestic pets to our own convenience algorithms.

Precisely.

That is why the Dune universe relies on Mentats, human beings trained to compute massive data sets in their minds, and the Spacing Guild Navigators.

They had to push human evolution to the absolute limit because they realized that outsourcing their intellect to silicon was a death sentence for the species.

The Oracle of Time like slides into Duncan's brain.

And this Oracle is described as some sort of ancient being, some guiding intelligence behind the Spacing Guild that we've never met before.

And the Oracle is like, Duncan...

My guy, they're out there.

Yeah, the lines that we get multiple times are like, people as powerful and formidable as the Honored Matre wouldn't have come running back to the Old Imperium if not for the fact that they were being chased by someone who was hunting them down.

And that hunter is going to arrive here at some point.

yeah and all of that is fine but doesn't give any groundwork for like why she's so certain that even the battle will take a certain form again way more confident than she has any reason to be right so also just as a quick note uh the the spacing guild now knows where chapter house is for some reason um no no real good explanation for why that is she says like oh with all the honor matre coming and going now it's an open secret where chapter house is and i'm like fucking bullshit you are also telling us about how many enemies you still have in the imperium honored matre forces that are on boozle and on you know on on tleilax and now everyone knows where chapter house is what are you talking about that's not that's not possible they would just come obliterate chapter house with with uh obliterators or whatever like god so weird anyway spacing guild is on planet administer goris this like bald man with a braid uh accompanies a navigator who is quote an edrick class navigator Bearing the gene markers of an old bloodline.

Oh.