Spacing Guild
The Spacing Guild is an organization that features in Dune.
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History
The Spacing Guild was a human organization that came to form as part of the Old Empire where it emerged in the aftermath of the Butlerian Jihad. Thus, it along with the Bene Gesserit were surviving schools that trained in human talent. At some point, they came to hold a monopoly over space travel due to their ability of Guild Navigators using the Spice Melange.
House Atreides under the leadership of Duke Leto Atreides took their forces to a Guild Heighliner for transportation to Arrakis whose stewardship was given to them. The Guild deposited them at Arrakeen instead of the Harkonen settlement of Carthag.
Overview
In appearance, the Spacing Guild was an official organization that was part of the Old Empire. Among its members it was known as the Corpus Luminis Praenuntiantis which may be translated "The Union of the Foreseeing Eye".
The motto of the Guild was Quilibet, Quolibet, Quandolibet which translated to mean "Anything, anytime, anyplace." It was said that the Spacing Guild school of thought emphasized the use of pure mathematics. They would have complete monopoly over interstellar transport and placed a dreadfully high price on satellite control. Members of the Guild did not hold any religious views but were instead atheists who only promoted religion among the rest of humanity as this provided a stable societal order from which they could profit. However, they were responsible for the standardization of religion and promoted the adoption of the Orange Catholic Bible where they offered protection to the dissenting theologians who created the book.
Members were genetically engineered for special sensitivity to Melange.
Within the Guild, there were a number of roles that included the Chief Administrator, the administrator staff, Navigator attendants, the Guild ambassadors and the technical support staff.
The primary interstellar transport that were used by the Guild were its fleet of Heighliners. Their size and detail varied among the designs where they were noted for being fast yet difficult to manoeuvre with their enormous frames were powered by the Holtzman Effect. The size and extreme complexity of the external neutrino circuitry effected their trans-light displacements that made them expensive and difficult to build. Even at the height of its dominance, the Guild had no more than five thousand heighliners. These great ships were noted for being remarkably durable and almost immune to technological obsolescence. The Guild was diligent in protecting its investments and no heighliner was known to had been lost to military action.
Members
- Norma Cenva :
- Beric :
- Edric :
- Edrik :
- Olar :
Notes
- The Spacing Guild were created by Frank Herbert where they featured in the setting of the Dune universe.
In other media
Television
Films
- In Dune, the Spacing Guild appeared in the setting of the 1984 live-action film adaptation of the novels.
Video games
- In Emperor: Battle for Dune, the Spacing Guild featured in the story campaign and were a sub-faction that could be played among the three player factions.
Appearances
- Dune: (1965)
- Dune Messiah:
- Children of Dune:
- God Emperor of Dune:
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